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1898 map of St. Petersburg, the Russian capital, from a German atlas. Central St Petersburg, or Petrograd, is on the Neva River. Key landmarks include the Peter and Paul Fortress, which served as a prison, Nevski Prospect, a primary boulevard south of the Fortress, the Finland Train Station, east of the Fortress, where Lenin made his triumphal return, the Tauride (Taurisches) Palace, which housed the Duma and later the Petrograd Soviet. Text: St Petersburg (Petrograd); Neva River, Peter and Paul Fortress; Nevski Prospect, Finland Bahnhof (Train Station); Taurisches (Tauride) Palace

1898 map of St. Petersburg, the Russian capital, from a German atlas. Central St Petersburg, or Petrograd, is on the Neva River. Key landmarks include the Peter and Paul Fortress, which served as a prison, Nevski Prospect, a primary boulevard south of the Fortress, the Finland Train Station, east of the Fortress, where Lenin made his triumphal return, the Tauride (Taurisches) Palace, which housed the Duma and later the Petrograd Soviet.

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St Petersburg (Petrograd); Neva River, Peter and Paul Fortress; Nevski Prospect, Finland Bahnhof (Train Station); Taurisches (Tauride) Palace

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Sunday, December 10, 1916

"'In the second half of November,' wrote Protopopov shortly before his death, 'the workers' movement began to crystallize. Strikes broke out sporadically in different areas of the city . . . We had to plan a campaign that would suppress the workers' movement should it flare up violently and begin to spread.' . . . While a detailed plan was being worked out to bring in troops with machine guns to assist the Petrograd police, the minister of the interior was intensifying his campaign against the Union of Zemstvos and Union of Towns as well as against cooperative and civic organizations."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from Alexander Kerensky's account of events leading to the Russian Revolution. Russian Minister of the Interior Alexander Protopopov was widely believed to be working for a separate peace and to be deranged. The Union of Zemstvos and Union of Towns had been instrumental in supporting the war effort. One of their activities was transporting wounded soldiers, an activity which had allowed them to develop ties to the military. The 'second half of November' Old Style was the first half of December, New Style.

Source

Russia and History's Turning Point by Alexander Kerensky, pp. 174–175, copyright © 1965 by Alexander Kerensky, publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, publication date: 1965

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1916-12-10, 1916, December, Protopopov, Union of Zemstvos, Union of Towns, Petrograd, St. Petersburg