Excerpt from Through the Russian Revolution: Notes of an Eyewitness, From 12th March-30th May Kerensky on the Champ de Mars; Free citizens; "Soldiers' liberty" - rushing the trains to the exclusion of civilians; Peasants in distinctive national costumes; Solemn procession for the interment of the victims of the Revolution; A Russian crowd keeps its own order; Until night fell the people of Petrograd continued to pass by; "Hundreds dragged themselves along the Nevsky. The most to be pitied - the blind - were guided by Sisters of Charity"; Many lingered in the snow-covered square; Each group was commanded by a chief, who carried a white flag; Champ de Mars, where the victims of the Revolution were buried; All classes of the people were represented; Group after group followed in this procession, which continued all day and into the evening; Soldiers honour the victims of the Revolution; Workmen and workwomen marched in good order to the graves of their dead; Ksessinschkaia Mansion, from which Lenin, the German propagandist, delivered his speech as a Social Democrat; Botkine with two delegates from the Black Sea Fleet; Polostzoff; Kerensky and Albert Thomas take part in the first Fete of the Revolution About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.