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Description: | Photocopy (7pp) and ts transcription (3pp) of her ms letter to her mother, March 1917, describing her experiences in an unknown capacity in Petrograd during the Russian Revolution, including: the rejoicing at the fall of "the rotten old regime"; being caught up in the fighting in the streets with the troops and the police; the storming of the Admiralty and the liberation of political prisoners; the looting; the relative bloodlessness of the Revolution; the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II; and the growing admiration for the British Army after the victories at Baghdad and Peronne.
Cataloguer SNR
Catalogue date 1998-10-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wimble, Ursula | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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