This year marks the 107th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. In the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter Palace in Petrograd (today’s St. Petersburg) was stormed. This event ...

This is how Sergey Eisenstein, a famous Soviet film director, depicted the key moment of the October Revolution, the storming of the Winter Palace – the Romanovs’ long-time residence in ...

Soviet propaganda made the storming of the Tsar’s Winter Palace an iconic legend of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. None was more classic than the 1928 Soviet silent film by Sergei Eisenstein ...

The Petrograd clashes during the October Revolution of 1917 foreshadowed the onset of Russia’s civil war . russian news ... Clashes around the Winter Palace left six dead and another 50 injured.

The Winter Palace is widely believed to have suffered more damage from Eisenstein’s film crew than from the actual revolution. In 1917 there was no dramatic storming of the Winter Palace.

How the October Revolution unfolded. Unrest started when demonstrators, ... The city is the site of the Winter Palace, a symbol of Tsarist absolutism that is now the Hermitage art museum.

Dramatic images of St Petersburg’s ransacked Winter Palace after the Bolshevik Revolution are going on show in London for one weekend only. Calvert 22 Foundation, which supports contemporary art ...

Some 100 years after the October Revolution began in St. Petersburg, ... By 1917 the Winter Palace no longer actually served as a royal residence for the czars.

Hermitage’s clock ticktocks after 100 years of standing still at October Revolution ... Interim Government ministers were arrested in the small hours of October 26, 1917, in the Winter Palace.

The Russian Bloody Sunday took place in January 1905, when a Russian Orthodox priest known as Georgy Gapon led a massive crowd to the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg to present a petition to the ...

The February Revolution begins in Saint Petersburg on International Women's Day and the Provisional Government is established as the ... October 24, 1917: Provisional forces move against the ...