News
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 ...
William C. Fox on MSN23d
History of the Russian Revolution 1917; The February RevolutionHistory 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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results