Giano has asked on a photo of the Winter palace whether it is genuine, or from Eisenstein's film.
In fact it is neither, purporting to show the storming of the Winter Palace, October 1917, but in fact from a Bolshevik re-enactment staged as a civic spectacle on the third anniversary of the action. The actual fighting at the Palace took place at night and there were no cameras present.
See
http://www.nevsky88.com/SaintPetersburg/Revolution
As I can't get this to Giano at WP for obvious reasons, and don't know if he is logged in here, grateful if someone could leave a message at the old place. Giano is currently working here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gia...e_Winter_Palace
PS the rather unsavoury faces of the Bolshevik Politburo 1917 remind one of hivemind, no?
Full Version: Storming of the Winter Palace
QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Mon 21st April 2008, 11:19am) 
Giano has asked on a photo of the Winter palace whether it is genuine, or from Eisenstein's film.
In fact it is neither, purporting to show the storming of the Winter Palace, October 1917, but in fact from a Bolshevik re-enactment staged as a civic spectacle on the third anniversary of the action. The actual fighting at the Palace took place at night and there were no cameras present.
See
http://www.nevsky88.com/SaintPetersburg/Revolution
As I can't get this to Giano at WP for obvious reasons, and don't know if he is logged in here, grateful if someone could leave a message at the old place. Giano is currently working here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gia...e_Winter_Palace
PS the rather unsavoury faces of the Bolshevik Politburo 1917 remind one of hivemind, no?
Message received thanks a lot - do you want crediting?
Giano
QUOTE(Giano @ Mon 21st April 2008, 8:15pm)
Message received thanks a lot - do you want crediting?
Giano
That would be nice! Renamed user 4?
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