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Learn about the fall of the Winter Palace, the symbol of royal power in Petrograd, during the October Revolution. Find out how the Bolsheviks seized the palace with little resistance and what happened to the wine cellar.
The Storming of the Winter Palace was a 1920 mass spectacle, based on historical events that took place in Petrograd during the 1917 October Revolution. Heavily retouched scene from the spectacle of 1920. This photograph was presented from 1922 on in many publications as an authentic depiction of the events, both in Russia and internationally.
While the seizure of the Winter Palace happened almost without resistance, Soviet historians and officials later tended to depict the event in dramatic and heroic terms. The historical reenactment titled The Storming of the Winter Palace was staged in 1920.
The Winter Palace was loosely defended by around 3,000 officers, cadets, reservists and Cossacks. American journalist John Reed managed to sneak into the palace on the afternoon of October 25th, reporting that its defensive garrison was drunk, hungry and miserable.
Learn how the October Revolution of 1917 brought Petrograd under the control of the workers and the Bolsheviks, who seized the Winter Palace with little resistance. The provisional government surrendered and the Second Congress of Soviets took power.
The storming of the palace in 1917, as depicted in Soviet art and in Sergei Eisenstein's 1928 film October, became a symbol of the October Revolution. The emperors constructed their palaces on a monumental scale that aimed to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia.
Vladimir Lenin rallies a. St. Petersburg crowd, 1917. Lenin was determined to lead his Bolsheviks to power by exploiting the war-weariness that affected Russian citizens and soldiers alike.
