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Konstantin Derzhavin: The Storming of the Winter Palace
The Storming of the Winter Palace
(p. 64 – 66)

Konstantin Derzhavin

The Storming of the Winter Palace
On the fifth anniversary of the staging (1925)

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  • Russia
  • historic documents
  • History of photography
  • revolution

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Konstantin Derzhavin

(1903–1956), literary scholar, translator, critic, scholar of Romance and Spanish studies. Co-director of The Storming of the Winter Palace, author of the white-stage scenes.

Other texts by Konstantin Derzhavin for DIAPHANES
Inke Arns (ed.), Igor Chubarov (ed.), ...: Nikolai Evreinov: »The Storming of the Winter Palace«

In 1920, the third anniversary of the October Revolution, The Storming of the Winter Palace was performed with a cast of 10,000. But as a reenactment this mass spectacle, directed by Nikolai Evreinov, was deceptive. It was intended to recall something—the storming of the Winter Palace as the beginning of the revolution—that it itself produced as a theatrical medium. This volume reconstructs the event with texts, photographs, and drawings, and shows how not only in the Soviet Union did the photograph of the theatrical “storming” become a historical document of the October Revolution.

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