Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Revolutionary Square



From this standpoint in the Hermitage one could have been an eye witness to the suppression of the Decembrist Revolution ( led by aristocrats, officers and academics) some of whom the Tsar had hanged and others exiled to siberia.Also a first class position from which to see the storming of the winter Palace in 1917 which started the communist revolution.

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