Caught by the revolution. Live eyes of eyewitnesses

The new book from the author of the bestseller “Diaries of the Princess Romanovs” Helen Rappaport, based on the rarest, forgotten or considered lost archival materials, transfers the reader to Petrograd 1917, experiencing the most dramatic moments of his history. Mastroly recreating the spirit of the era, the author shows those events through the eyes of their participants (often involuntarily) and eyewitnesses, giving the opportunity to survive them in the full sense. During the narrative, the reader from luxurious palace halls and from embassy techniques will fall on St. Petersburg streets and squares, from theaters and restaurants - to gloomy gateways and courtyards. His companions will be aristocrats and diplomats, journalists and military, maids and nurses, workers and clerks, revolutionary sailors and foreign officers. Their everyday life, their concerns and holidays, their thoughts and feelings became the main content of the book, and political upheavals served only the dramatic background for them, which is doing the work of the rappport truly valuable and unique. Each of the heroes of the book saw his piece of revolution, each in their own way evaluated events. Having reduced all these precious evidence in a single picture, Helen Rappander managed to create the best report from the past that you can only come up with.