• The February Revolution in Petrograd: How Do These Places from Old Photos Look Now

    Two revolutions took place in Russia in 1917. The epicenter was the capital, Petrograd, as St. Petersburg was called during World War I. Let’s take a trip back in time, trace the revolutionary events on the streets of the city and see what these places look like now. The material was prepared and translated from Russian by Nikita Andreyev, author of the «History on the Ground» blog. All dates are according to the modern calendar. Photo: pastvu.com, Yandex.Maps. The author is not a historian, so he relies on simple publicly available information from the first shelf of the Internet. Inaccuracies are possible. Bread Riots and Worker Strikes In the winter…