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Hermitage opens extensive exhibition devoted to Russian Revolution

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Hermitage opens extensive exhibition devoted to Russian Revolution


25.10.2017

pixabay.comFinal exhibition devoted to 100th anniversary of the Great October Revolution opens on 25th of October in the State Hermitage Museum, TASS reports. According to director of the largest Russian museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, the exhibition ends the cycle of expositions, arranged this year.

Visitors of the exhibition will get to know more about events happened in the Winter Palace in 1917.

Mikhail Piotrovsky has explained that the Hermitage walls witnessed important historical events and the exhibition will tell them about these events.

Winter Palace and the Hermitage. 1917. History was made here. Exposition is accommodated in all grand halls. It begins in Jordan Gallery and stairs with revolutionary posters on the walls.

Avant Hall talks about life of Nicholas II and him family displaying toys, drawings, documentaries and persona belonging.

Exhibited items of Nikolaevsky Hall are dedicated to World War I and charity of Romanovs’ family. A picture of the hospital, which used to be inside one of these chambers, can be found here. Events of 26th of October are enlightened in the Small Dining Room. Rioting sailors and soldiers headed by Antonov-Ovseyenko arrested the Provisional Government.

Anniversary of the Revolution will be marked in the museum and open-air. Canons and Lenin’s armored car which used to stand here during February and October Revolutions were brought to the Winter Palace’ yard again.

Mystery play of music and poetry is scheduled for the evening and the Winter Palace will be lit with red color.

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