Reed’s is one of six lives served up by historian Simon Hall in his new book. Three of them are revolutionaries — Vladimir ...

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir ...

The draft ended, and when answering reporters’ questions Bochkareva replied, “There will be no new draft. We’ll go and die.” The First Petrograd Women's Battalion of Death, 1917. Getty Images ...

The performance asks that you wear all black on your journey to Petrograd. So, as one waits in the ferry terminal, they can slowly start to see a sea of black-clad theater-goers descending.

Women played a central role in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and author Cathy Porter is making sure those women are not ...

He was appointed the U.S. vice consul in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and arrived in Russia shortly before the Bolsheviks rose to power that November.

The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for both a CIA-backed 1953 ...

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In 1914, following the outbreak of World War I, the city’s name was changed to Petrograd, meaning Peter’s city, as the name was felt to be too German given the conflict between the countries.

Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII. 1610: Sigmund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats ...

Including: Sylvia Pankhurst Petrograd poem, Frank Penman in London, Irish strike and lockout, media baron Lord Northcliffe's ...