Uprisings power struggles civil wars. There have been countless revolutions. None change the world in the Twentieth Century as much as the Russian Revolution of one thousand nine hundred seventy s. Its not such. A lot of images are whirling around in my head are they accurate. Or have they been influenced by Sergey Eisenstein film october from one nine hundred twenty eight. In february one thousand seven hundred the people revolted and overthrew the czar. In october the bolsheviks came to power what happened in between. There are plenty of history books but i want to know how artists experience the revolution first hand accounts first hand history. There are the diaries of sanity to give us a poet surrounded by scandal and a woman of influence her salon was legendary in St Petersburg she became a chronicler of the revolution. It would be good to be blind and deaf show no interest at all and write poems about eternity and beauty. If only i could. What do the memoirs of the painter and a
The beautiful, eclectic and colourful city of Moscow, witness to so many historical epochs, is always taking part in movie shoots - its streets, squares and buildings in a range of architectural styes are being used as settings for Russian and international films. In April, a film crew led by director Venkat Prabhu was at work on Moscow's streets
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