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 ...

The tsar, certain that the Petrograd garrison would suppress the revolt, ignored his requests. It would prove to be a fatal mistake. - Until January 1918 Russia lived according to the Julian ...

Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the Communist yoke, Metropolitan Benjamin (Kazansky) of Petrograd and ...

Rand was only 12 when she and her family fled from Petrograd to Ukrainian Crimea in 1917, during the withering nationalization campaigns of the Bolsheviks. She and her family returned in 1921 to ...

These were the slogans shouted at the heart of Russia's capital, Petrograd, in 1917 when women by the thousands marched on the first day of the Russian Revolution to demand their rights and drive out ...

Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA) On August 19, 1914, one day after Nicholas the Second ruled to rename St. Petersburg into Petrograd, SPTA changed its name accordingly and became the Petrograd ...