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Volkia's monarchy came to an end in 1887 and was replaced with a federal republic in 1888. While the majority of voters elected to abolish Volkia's monarchy, there were still many ardent supporters of the Kamenevs throughout Volkia. While these supporters hailed from all parts of Volkia, there were many concentrated in [[Yekartovsk Oblast]]. The province was the epicenter of multiple monarchist uprisings by monarchist militias since the failed Purple Rebellion in 1890, but the civil war was by far the largest and deadliest monarchist conflict.
The war began when a group of Kamenevists, led by Anisim Dmitriev, attacked the federal armory in [[Kursavka]] on March 9, 1925 in order to secure weapons and ammunition. The skirmish resulted in the deaths of
==Background==
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==Attack on the armory==
At 2:00 AM on Monday, March 9, 1925, a group of 100 Kamenevists led by Anisim Dmitriev broke into the Kursavka Federal Armory with the intent to seize stockpiled weapons and cause damage the facility to hamper the manufacture of firearms by the federal government. The Kamenevists took the armory guards as hostages while beginning to load trucks with rifles and ammunition. One guard tried to escape and was shot by the raiders, drawing police attention to the operation. At 2:45 AM local police began responding to the armory and were subsequently shot at by the raiders. Two police officers were killed and three were injured in the skirmish. The police retreated and called for assistance from the local army garrison, who responded in force.
Approximately 250 soldiers from the Kursavka garrison surrounded the armory by 3:20 AM and exchanged gunfire with the Kamenevists now trapped inside the armory compound. Commander of the garrison, Colonel Ivan Lyapin, tried to open a line of communication with Dmitriev to discuss surrender but ultimately failed. President Gurkovsky was notified of the raid at approximately 4:00 AM via telegram and boarded a train to travel to the city.
Lyapin chose to hold off on attacking the armory until sunrise, at which point he had an additional 200 men, armored trucks, and machine guns to support them. Lyapin offered the raiders the chance to surrender a final time but received no response. At 6:30 AM Lyapin's armored trucks broke through the gates to the armory and began firing on Kamenevist positions, located in the compound's various buildings. The raiders were able to set up machine guns of their own and strengthen their defenses due to Lyapin's order to wait until sunrise. The trucks were supported by Lyapin's infantry and ultimately were able to secure the majority of the compound by 6:50 AM.
The armory's main manufactory building remained under Kamenevist control and saw the heaviest fighting during the skirmish. Machine guns were able to keep federal troops pinned down even with support from the armored trucks. Lyapin's forces pulled back to better cover and again tried to contact Dmitriev to discuss surrender with again no response. Lyapin decided to use {{Wp|battalion guns}} to shell the manufactory's defensive positions which worked exceedingly well. By 7:20 AM, Lyapin's forces had overrun the manufactory and taken the surviving raiders prisoner.
The bodies of the armory's guards were discovered after the end of the skirmish, appearing to have been executed by the Kamenevists. Violent interrogation by some of Lyapin's troops revealed Dmitriev ordered their killings and the identities of the militants that shot them. These four men were taken outside to the armory's courtyard and summarily shot for their roles in the raid and the deaths of the armory guards, reportedly under Lyapin's orders. The surviving raiders, 63 in total, were taken prisoner and later stood trial after the conclusion of the war.
==The federal response==
===Enemies of the state===
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