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The crowd hugs the Nevsky to get out of the range of the machine-guns in the July riots

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Title: The crowd hugs the Nevsky to get out of the range of the machine-guns in the July riots
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Ariana Brinckerhoff
Date Created and/or Issued: July 1917
2017-11-10
Publication Information: Los Angles : Occidental College Library, 2017
Contributing Institution: Occidental College Library
Collection: Occidental College Bessie Beatty Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: People running or laying down on major street in Petrograd. Back contains notes in Russian and another in English, most likely by Bessie Beatty. "on the Nevsky, near the Public Library - Petrograd. Laying down to avoid machine guns. Red Heart Russia." ||The troops of the provisional government shooting at a peaceful demostration of workers, soldiers and sailors, held under the slogan 'all power to the soviets' in petrograd on july 4, 1917.
Title derived from captions in Red Heart of Russia by Bessie Beatty. Additional description information derived from same image from gettyimages [entered by Ian Lehine, 2017/11/08]
Type: image
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
image/jpeg
Identifier: http://callimachus.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16061coll38/id/47
Language: Russian
English
Subject: Russia--History--Revolution, 1917
War Photography
Women Journalists--United States
Bessie beatty, photograpy, revolution (russian), russia, petrograd, violence
Place: St. Petersburg, Russia
Source: Occidental College Library
Relation: Special Collections. Papers of Bessie Beatty (scbb)
Provenance: X015, folder 3(4)

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