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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Henry Dicks was the son of an Estonian-based Englishman, sent to school in Petrograd during the First World War. He recorded his memories in an interview with his son in 1967.