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LENIN'S BLOODY REVOLUTION

The storming of
the Winter Palace,
THE OCTOBER UPRISING recreated for Sergei
Eisenstein’s October
On 24 October 1917, Lenin’s Red Guard stormed the streets
of Petrograd, taking over several strategic points

Bridges
As a city on a river,
Saint Petersburg’s
bridges were more key Winter Palace
strategic points for the The final site to fall in
Red Guard, limiting the October revolution.
access and exit. The storming of the
Winter Palace became
the abiding image of the
Bolshevik victory.

Aurora
Anchored on Saint Petersburg’s Bolshaya
Neva River, the cruiser Aurora was the
ship from which the revolutionary troops
fired blank shots at the Winter Palace,
terrorising the people inside.

Central Telegraph
Like the post office, control of the
Telegraph was of significant use to the
Bolsheviks and the Red Guard, cutting
off the opposition from any means of
summoning help or reinforcement.

Main post office Mariinsky Palace
A key point for controlling The home of Nicholas II’s State Council
communications, the post office of Imperial Russia, State Chancellory
was one of several similar sites and Soviet of Ministers, the palace
seized by the Red Guard during was given over to the Provisional
the night of 23 October. Government in March 1917, and then to
various Soviet ministries after October.

The post office was a priority
target for the Bolshviks
during the revolution

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