CAUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION Petrograd, Russia, 1917— A World on the Edge

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38 The American journalist John Reed, a ‘charismatic socialist and professional rebel’ (Granger, NYC/Alamy)

39 Feminist journalist Louise Bryant, who travelled to Russia with Reed, her husband (Evening Standard/Getty Images)

40 People run for cover during a gun battle on Nevsky Prospect in October 1917 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

41 A room in the Tsar’s Winter Palace, ransacked by the Bolsheviks after they took the Palace with little or no resistance. (Slava Katamidze Collection/Getty Images)

Glossary of Eyewitnesses

Anet, Claude (pseudonym of Jean Schopfer) (1868–1931). Swiss-born French tennis champion, antiquities collector, journalist and writer reporting for Le Petit Parisien.

Arbenina, Stella (Baroness Meyendorff; née Whishaw) (1885–1976). British actress from a long-standing family in the Anglo-Russian colony in St Petersburg; she married Russian aristocrat Baron Meyendorff. Arrested after the revolution; released in 1918, she settled in Estonia.

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