New materials of the exhibition in the Presidential Library describe in details the events of the 1917 revolution

Some new materials of working in the Presidential Library from March 15 to August 20, 2017, exhibition entitled ““To make sure that everything will be new”: “on the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution in Russia” let to immerse in the atmosphere of revolutionary Petrograd.

The renewed exposition, covering the period from January 1917 to January 7, 1918, illustrates in the infographic format the most important moments of the turning in their development in time and space year. Each of the key days is described in detail in the interactive map of Petrograd: it is marking the addresses and indicating the time intervals, describing where and when the particular episode occurred; archival and recent photographs along with the quotations and comments from the memoirs, interrogations records, the diaries of eyewitnesses and participants in those events the help to recreate aggregate picture.

“To make sure that everything will be new”: “on the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution in Russia” exhibition was also added with materials from the Central FSB Archive. They tell about the actions of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Sabotage and Speculation (also known as the Cheka). Among them, in particular, a copy of the identification card of the Cheka chairman Felix Dzerzhinsky, minutes of the commission meetings, and photographs.

The life of the regions at a turning point in history is reflected in the documents that are presented in the updated exposition in the relevant chronological blocks. For instance, from a hundred years ago newspapers to the exhibition visitors can learn about a reaction of the province to the events taking place in Petrograd, from leaflets - about the situation in remote military garrisons, some other materials tell about changes in the church life, a situation with the seizure of landed estates and many other moments of this critical for the country moment.

Sources for this part of the exhibition courtesy of the Volgograd Regional Universal Scientific Library named after M. Gorky, the Kirov Order of Honor State Universal Scientific Library named after A. I. Herzen, the State Universal Scientific Library of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Omsk State Regional Scientific Library named after A. S. Pushkin, the National Library of the Republic of Buryatia, the Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library named after I. A. Franco, the Tambov Regional Universal Scientific Library named after A. S. Pushkin, the Far Eastern State Scientific Library (DVGNB), Khabarovsk.

Please make an appointment for visiting the exposition over the phone (812) 334 2514 or email: excursion@prlib.ru.