Memorable dates of Russia: Exhibitions, dedicated to centenary of the February Revolution, at the National Library of Russia

February 27, 2017 in the Prints and Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg) will be open two exhibitions dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the February revolution.

The exhibition "Long live freedom!" of the Prints Department got its name from the widespread slogan sounded everywhere in Petrograd, since February 1917.

Rare original documents are among the exhibits. These are photos, postcards, flyers, visually reflecting the essence of the tipping time. Visitors will see the most urgent appeals of the February revolution, photography as cheering and grieving members and contemporaries of numerous demonstrations, armed clashes, funeral demonstrations, which marked that fateful year for the country's history.

The exhibits of the exhibition "Long live freedom!" are an invaluable source that shows how created at the same time full of hope and tragic chronicle of 1917. 

Also in the Manuscripts Department is opened the exhibition "February Revolution". Here are the letters, diaries, various documents, covering not only the period of the end of February and early March of 1917, but the events since the November session of the State Duma in 1916 and ending with the consequences of the Revolution to the July crisis and change of the second composition of the Provisional Government.

At the heart of the exhibition - documentary materials from the archives of contemporary revolution – diaries of Zinaida Gippius, journalist Dmitry Filosofov, writer and journalist Nicholas Findeyzen, drawings by Ivan Vladimirov and others. Here are presented printed leaflets and propaganda materials of political organizations, as well as the materials of choice in Vasileostrovskaya District Duma.

A special section is comprised of the Petrograd Military control bureau, compiled on the basis of letters viewed by the censors. They give the most objective picture of the events.

The exhibition at the NLR invites visitors to deeply and fully comprehend all the surviving evidence, survived to this day the most complex spirit of the revolutionary era, which is still being argued.

The exhibitions will run till April 17.