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2 unusual facts about Petrograd Soviet


Petrograd Soviet

That evening, between 50 and 300 people attended the meeting at the Tauride Palace.

Disputes over war aims led to street protests on April 20–21, including military units protesting outside the Mariinsky Palace.


Isidore Ramishvili

He briefly served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, but the Bolshevik October coup forced him to return to his native Georgia, where he was elected to the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1919.

Pavel Lazimir

Pavel Evgen'evich Lazimir (25 June 1891 in Novy Peterhof - 17 May 1920 Kremenchuk) was a prominent Left Socialist Revolutionaries who headed a soldier section of the Petrograd Soviet and was chairman of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee during the October Revolution.


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