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Red Guard soldiers standing outside of Leon Trotsky's door at the Smolny building in St. Petersburg. Back of the images reads: "Red Guard. Outside Trotsky's Door - Smolney" and a note and stamp in Russian. 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.
Russia--History--Revolution, 1917 War Photography Women Journalists--United States Bessie beatty, photograpy, revolution (russian), russia, petrograd, trotsky
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