October: The Story of the Russian Revolution - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора China Mi éville (Photographs) #16

Photographs

^{Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, February 1913.}

^{Grigori Rasputin, 1916.}

^{Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin.}

^{‘Konstantin Petrovich Ivanov’: a clean-shaven Lenin in disguise, August 1917.}

^{Alexandra Kollontai, a provocative and brilliant Bolshevik leader.}

^{Leon Trotsky, ‘charismatic and abrasive, brilliant and persuasive and divisive and difficult’.}

^{The flamboyant lawyer and politician Alexander Kerensky, 1917.}

^{Maria Spiridonova, who, at age twenty, shot and killed a brutal security chief.}

^{Menshevik leader Julius Martov, ‘a rather charming type of bohemian… by predilection a haunter of cafés, indifferent to comfort, perpetually arguing and a bit of an eccentric’.}

^{Demonstration in Petrograd, February 1917.}

^{Revolutionary soldiers on the streets of Petrograd as news spreads of the tsar’s abdication, March 1917.}

^{‘In March demonstrations in favour of the revolution shook Baku, Azerbaijan… a patchwork of medieval and modern edifices, watched over by the steep ziggurats of oil derricks.’}

^{An advanced outpost of Petrograd Soviet soldiers ready to face General Kornilov, August 1917.}

^{Members of the Red Guard below a banner reading, ‘To the health of the armed peoples, above all the workers’.}

^{Cadets besieged in the Winter Palace on the eve of the October Revolution.}

^{The armoured ship Aurora, after the revolution.}

^{Yaroslav Sergeevich Nikolaev, Lenin’s Death Day (1957), oil on Canvas, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. ‘The revolution of 1917 is a revolution of trains.’}