Petrograd
Revolution's Russian setting
Petrograd was the name of Russia's imperial capital from 1914 to 1924, replacing the Germanic-sounding Saint Petersburg during World War I.
The city witnessed the 1917 revolutions that ended tsarist rule and brought the Bolsheviks to power.
After Lenin's death, it was renamed Leningrad, reverting to Saint Petersburg in 1991.
Lenin's revolutionary party
- LeninSoviet state founder
- OctoberYear's tenth month
- 1917Late Great War
- Winter PalaceRussian imperial residence
uprising · Aurora · Red Guards · Soviet · abdication · Trotsky · insurrection · storming
First global military conflict
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
- mobilizationOrganizing for action
- food shortagesInsufficient supply of nourishment
- bread riotsMass unrest over scarcity
garrison · strikes · mutiny · February Revolution · war-weariness · casualties · desertion · home front
Final Romanov ruler
- autocracyRule by one
- Russian EmpireRomanov-ruled Eurasian state
- RasputinSiberian mystic, imperial influence
- DumaMoscow's legislative chamber
court · aristocracy · absolutism · dynasty · coronation · Okhrana · nobility · serfdom
Giving new designation
- GermanicOf Teutonic language stock
- anti-GermanHostile toward Germany
- 1914Great War's start
- RussificationEnforced cultural assimilation
patriotic · wartime · name change · rechristening · identity
Russian imperial residence
- HermitageMajor Russian art institution
- canalsConstructed water passages
- bridgesStructures spanning obstacles
- palacesGrand royal residences
Admiralty · architecture · islands · embankments · cathedrals · granite · baroque · neoclassical
Bolsheviks
Lenin's revolutionary party
Winter Palace · uprising · Aurora · Red Guards · Soviet · abdication · Trotsky · insurrection · storming · decrees
World War I
First global military conflict
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
- mobilizationOrganizing for action
- food shortagesInsufficient supply of nourishment
bread riots · garrison · strikes · mutiny · February Revolution · war-weariness · casualties · desertion · home front · rationing
Tsar Nicholas II
Final Romanov ruler
- autocracyRule by one
- Russian EmpireRomanov-ruled Eurasian state
- RasputinSiberian mystic, imperial influence
Duma · court · aristocracy · absolutism · dynasty · coronation · Okhrana · nobility · serfdom · Orthodox Church
renaming
Giving new designation
- GermanicOf Teutonic language stock
- anti-GermanHostile toward Germany
- 1914Great War's start
Russification · patriotic · wartime · name change · rechristening · identity
Winter Palace
Russian imperial residence
- HermitageMajor Russian art institution
- canalsConstructed water passages
- bridgesStructures spanning obstacles
palaces · Admiralty · architecture · islands · embankments · cathedrals · granite · baroque · neoclassical · Baltic
- Serapion Brothers
- place namesplace names, Peking, Beijing, place name, city names
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- Bolshevik RussiaLenin, Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Cheka, Red Guards
- Historical PlacesUSSR, Persia, Prussia, Siam, Burma
- LeninBolsheviks, mausoleum, October Revolution, Leninism, embalming