Finding gems in the Russian Revolution
An exhibition of personal and previously unseen material, set to capture interest nation-wide opens in Leeds next month.
Caught in the Russian Revolution: the British Community in Petrograd, 1917-1918” draws on material from the Leeds Russian Archive - the only archive in Britain dedicated to Russia.
It includes eyewitness accounts, diaries, letters, and photographs from what was by then a well established British community, only to become hugely disrupted following the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917.
Curator, Richard Davies said: “I could have put on ten exhibitions without difficulty, it was quite hard to select items.”