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Photograph of revolutionaries in Petrograd taking aim, 1917. Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), Russia, was the focal site of the February Revolution of 1917, where mass protest and armed clashes against monarchist control precipitated the...

The Russian Aurora naval cruiser which famously participated in the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 by firing upon Petrograd's Winter Palace. The ship is seen here anchored in St. Petersburg (formerly Petrograd).

A scene of the explosion from the Battle of the Crater during the Siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War, illustration by Alfred R. Waud in Harper's Weekly, 30 July 1864. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Battle of Five Forks, Va., lithograph by Kurz & Allison, c. 1886. A depiction of the Battle of Five Forks (1 April 1865), fought near the end of the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Petersburg, who held off overwhelming Union troops, buying time for Robert E. Lee. Retouched version of a photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1860. National Archives and Records...

Dead Confederate in the trenches of Fort Mahone at the end of the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War, photograph by T. C. Roche, 3 April 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The Mensheviks ('Minoritarians') and Bolsheviks ('Majoritarians') were two rival factions within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDWP). The split occurred in...

The siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) began during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), during the Second World War (1939-45). The siege or blockade lasted from...

The 1903 Peter the Great Egg by Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna. The egg commemorates the bicentenary of the founding of St. Petersburg by Peter the Great...

The expansion and consolidation of the Russian Empire around 1725 marked a fundamental transformation in Russia’s place within Europe and Eurasia. During this period, the Russian state shifted from a relatively inward-looking tsardom into...