From Lenin's armored car to the Red Terror
From 5 500₽ per group
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Type: Single-day activity
Duration: 3 hours
* On this tour you will learn about the dramatic and fateful events of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which shook the entire traditional world order to its foundations. We will talk about intrigues, conspiracies and assassinations in the interval from Lenin's arrival in Petrograd to the beginning of the Red Terror, and also touch on the themes of the February Revolution and the revolutionaries of the XIX century. Along the way, we will discuss what Kerensky and the Petrograd Soviet did not share, whether Lenin was traveling in a sealed car, whether there was an assault on the Winter, what were the points of no return on the way to the Civil War, and much more.
The beginning is from Gostiny Dvor metro station, the end is Gorkovskaya metro station. What we will see and hear:
- July 3 Street and the forgotten stained glass window
- Peaceful protest against the rifle
- The area of the first working demonstration
- Alexander Blok and the Constituent Assembly
- From the Tsarist police to the Cheka
- Palace Square and the storming of the Winter Palace
- Poet, seamstress and poetic battle as an overture to the Red Terror
- The house where the Russian monarchy ended
- The Square of the Victims of the Revolution and the Conspiracy of the Ambassadors
- "On the hippopotamus fool"
- A room for political games and a revolutionary circus
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