When St. Petersburg became Petrograd, it turned away from Europe, on whose very edge it stood like a child eager to be let into a room of adults. Then it became Leningrad, ...

Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Belknap/Harvard University Press, October 2017, 368 pages. Around midnight on April 16 ...

History of the Russian Revolution of 1917: this is a deeply researched animated history video about the February Revolution in Russia. We begin in March 1917 as the war-exhausted Russian populace ...

Red Guards pose in the streets of Petrograd during the 1917 October Revolution, in which the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power. TATE, LONDON/SCALA, FLORENCE.

PETROGRAD, Jan. 18, Delayed via London, Jan. 19, 1918 (UP) - Discovery of a counter-revolutionary plot to overthrow the Bolsheviki, probably under leadership of former Premier Kerensky, was ...

Petrograd, March 12 (February 27, O.S.): Soviet formed; armed insurrection spreads. In a panicked telegram to the Tsar, Mikhail Rodzianko, the head of the Duma, writes: “The government is ...

He showed that the four resolutions of the Kronstadt Soviet, adopted on 16, 21, 24 and 25 May, [3] did not contradict each other, and were not directed against [4] the Provisional Government, but ...

Petrograd on the Eve of Kronstadt. Despite the fact that the population of Petrograd had diminished by two thirds, the winter of 1920-21 proved to be a particularly hard one. Food in the city had been ...

In Petrograd I had friends, possessions, money, servants, and heart’s ease but for my husband’s death. I could look forward to declining years of comfortable leisure.

It is said in Petrograd that an attempt was made, some years ago, to estimate the value of St. Isaac’s and all that it contains; and that a sum amounting to so many million roubles that I dare ...