Storming the Winter Palace
“Petrograd, night of November 7, 1917. Bolshevik soldiers and Red Guards pour up the great stairs of the Winter Palace. Foreground shows men with red armbands kicking open gilded doors and a sailor brandishing a Mauser; midground reveals frightened cadets surrendering in marble halls; the Aurora's searchlight sweeps across the Neva, its forward gun still smoking.”
