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A large crowd of people in early 20th-century coats and fur hats fill a wide cobblestone street lined with grand buildings under a cloudy sky. Red flags are visible in the background.

A large crowd of people in early 20th-century coats and fur hats fill a wide cobblestone street lined with grand buildings under a cloudy sky. Red flags are visible in the background.

You arrived in Petrograd, the capital of the Russian Empire, in 1917. The city is a powder keg of social and political unrest, with immense overcrowding, food shortages, and economic hardship aggravated by Russia's disastrous involvement in World War I. The air is full of political discussions as the populace, tired of the Tsarist regime's incompetence, seeks radical change. See more