Thornton, Nellie
Thornton, Vera
Thornton’s woollen mill, Petrograd
Through War to Revolution (Dosch-Fleurot)
Times, The
Tobolsk, Siberia
Tokay
Tomsk, Siberia
Torgovaya, Petrograd
Torneo, Finland
torpedoes
tovarishchi
trams
Trans-Siberian Railway
Travis, Norton C.
Treasury Notes
Troitskaya, Petrograd
Troitsky Bridge, Petrograd
Trotsky, Leon
Tsarskoe Selo, Petrograd
Tsereteli, Irakli
tuberculosis (TB)
Tumanov family
Turkey
typhus
U
U-boats
Ukraine
United States, United States embassy
1912 trade treaty broken off with Russia over anti-Semitism
1916 Francis becomes ambassador to Russia
1917 New Year diplomatic reception at Catherine Palace, refuge offered to Countess Nostitz, recognition of Russian Provisional Government, declaration of war on Germany, protest at Petrograd embassy, Root Mission to Russia, Red Cross mission arrives in Petrograd, steamer commissioned to evacuate Petrograd expats, arrival of Reeds in Petrograd, evacuation of nationals from Russia, Christmas celebrations in Petrograd
1918 diplomats evacuated to Vologda
V
Varpasaari, Finland
Vasilievsky Island, Petrograd
Vecchi, Joseph
Vendée, France
Victoria, Queen
vigilantes
Villa Rodé, Petrograd
Villa, Pancho
Vladimir, Grand Duchess, see Maria Pavlovna
Vladimirsky Military School, Petrograd
Vladimirsky, Petrograd
Vladivostok, Russia
vodka
Volga River
Volga-Kama Bank
Vologda, Russia
Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD)
Volynsky Regiment
Voznesenskaya, Petrograd
Vulture, HMS
Vyborg Side, Petrograd
W
Walpole, Hugh
Warsaw Station, Petrograd
Westinghouse
‘What Is to Be Done?’ (Lenin)
Whiffen, Walter
Whipple, George Chandler
whisky
Wightman, Orrin Sage
William Miller & Co.
Williams, Harold
Wilson, Henry
Wilson, Woodrow
Wilton, Robert
wine
Wine of Fury (Rogers)
Winship, North
Winter Palace, Petrograd
Winter Palace Bridge, Petrograd
Wiseman, William
With the Russians at the Front
Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World)
Wolff’s bookshop, Petrograd
Women’s Battalion
Women’s Day
Women’s Death Battalion
women’s rights
Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)
wood-burning
Woodhouse, Arthur
Woodhouse, Ella
workers’ rights
World War I (1914–18)
1914 Battle of Mons
1916 Battle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme
1917 Germany issues torpedo warning to neutral ships, Allied conference in Petrograd, Russian Baltic fleet mutiny at Kronstadt, US declares war on Germany, Milyukov’s Note; protests erupt in Russia, formation of Petrograd Women’s Death Battalion, Battle of Smorgon, Kerensky Offensive, German capture of Tarnopol, German capture of Riga, Brest-Litovsk conference begins
1918 Brest-Litovsk Treaty
World War II (1939–45)
World
Wright, J. Butler
Y
Yakutsk, Siberia
Yeliseev’s emporium, Petrograd
YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association)
Yusupov, Felix
Z
zakuski
Zeppelins
Zetkin, Clara
Zhivoe slovo
Zinoviev, Grigory
Znamensky Square, Petrograd
Photographs
1. The Nevsky Prospekt in Petrograd, c. 1910.
2. A sewing party at the British Embassy in Petrograd organized by Lady Georgina Buchanan, who stands at the head of the table.
3. Sir George Buchanan, pictured in 1912.
4. Maurice Paléologue, the French Ambassador to Russia, c. 1914.
5. Sir George Buchanan and family dining with staff at the British Embassy in Petrograd.
6. US Ambassador to the Russian Empire David R. Francis and his valet Phil Jordan, pictured here aboard the Swedish steamship Oscar II headed to Oslo from New York.
7. Francis with counsellor J. Butler Wright, being chauffeured in Petrograd by Phil Jordan in the US Embassy’s Model T Ford.
8. Leighton Rogers, a young American clerk at the National City Bank of New York in Petrograd.
9. Julia Cantacuzène-Speransky, granddaughter of US President Ulysses S. Grant, American wife of a Russian prince, and subsequently a memoirist of the Russian Revolution.
10. The intrepid war photographer and cinematographer Donald C. Thompson.
11. James Negley Farson, American journalist and adventurer.
12. Arthur Ransome, correspondent for the Daily News at the time of the Revolution.
13. Journalist Florence Harper, pictured while working as a nurse at an American Field Hospital in Ukraine during 1917.
14. A bread line in Petrograd in 1917.
15. Nursing sisters and a wounded young soldier at the Anglo-Russian Hospital.
16 The International Women’s Day parade in Petrograd, 23 February 1917, that sparked a wave of popular protest at bread shortages.
17. Donald C. Thompson’s picture shows how the February Revolution claimed fatal casualties faster than the morgues could cope with.
18. Revolutionary barricades on Liteiny Prospekt, March 1917.
19. Cossack troops on patrol in Petrograd.
20. ‘Shoot the Pharaos on their roofs…’: a propaganda postcard urging popular resistance to the police (known derisively as ‘pharaohs’ or faraony) who would snipe at revolutionaries from rooftops.
21. The toppling of imperial monuments, 27 February 1917.
22. Shop-front Imperial emblems thrown onto the ice under a bridge across the Fontanka Canal.
23. Nurses with a wounded soldier at the Anglo Russian Hospital, observing events on the Nevsky Prospekt below.
24. An artist’s rendering of the attack on the Hotel Astoria, 28 February 1917.
25. The lobby of the Astoria after the attack, its floor bloodstained, a revolutionary sentry on guard.
26. Official buildings of the old tsarist regime, the first institutions to be attacked during the February Revolution: The District Court…
27. The Litovsky Prison
28. Police Station No. 4.
29. A burnt fragment of a secret police record picked up on the street by American bank clerk Leighton Rogers.
30. Soldiers digging the mass grave for the victims of the February Revolution at the Field of Mars.
31. The funeral procession for the dead of February.
32. A crowded session of the Petrograd Soviet in the Tauride Palace.
33. Romanov coats of arms are burned in Petrograd, May 1917.
34. Troops of the Petrograd Women’s Death Battalion.
35. Commander of the Women’s Death Battalion Maria Bochkareva with Emmeline Pankhurst, their mutual regard clear.
36. Jessie Kenney, suffragette and former mill worker who accompanied Emmeline Pankhurst to Russia.
37. The Daily Mirror front page reports the July Days violence in Petrograd.
38. The American journalist John Reed, a ‘charismatic socialist and professional rebel’.
39. Feminist journalist Louise Bryant, who travelled to Russia with Reed, her husband.
40. People run for cover during a gun battle on Nevsky Prospect in October 1917.
41. A room in the Tsar’s Winter Palace, ransacked by the Bolsheviks after they took the Palace with little or no resistance.
Also by Helen Rappaport
No Place for Ladies
Joseph Stalin
An Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
Queen Victoria
The Last Days of the Romanovs
Conspirator
Beautiful for Ever
A Magnificent Obsession
The Romanov Sisters
WITH WILLIAM HORWOOD
Dark Hearts of Chicago
WITH ROGER WATSON
Capturing the Light
About the Author
Helen Rappaport studied Russian at Leeds University and is a specialist in Russian and Victorian history. Her books include Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge, A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy and The Last Days of the Romanovs. She lives in West Dorset. You can sign up for author updates here.