The Provisional Government developed a power sharing agreement with the Petrograd soviet (a city council) that rendered it ineffective at providing basic services and law enforcement. The tsarist ...

When the riots broke out, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. It ...

The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies played a central role. It was created in the first days of the revolution and had big influence among the lower classes of society.

In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins on March 8, 1917 ...

Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the Communist yoke, Metropolitan Benjamin (Kazansky) of Petrograd and ...