Iliá Golosov, pabellón de una de las repúblicas orientales, Exposición Agrícola, Moscú, 1923

On October 25, 1917 (November 7 according to our calendar), at twenty to ten at night, the city of Petrograd (the former St. Petersburg) could hear the cannon shot from the frigate Aurora to signal the beginning of the storming of the Winter Palace by the revolutionary forces. That night the Palace was seized, and the provisional bourgeois government, formed in February of that same year after the overthrow of the Tsar, was dismissed. The uprising led by Vladimir Lenin had been victorious. The Socialist Revolution had triumphed. A few days later, after desperate battles, the government of the Soviets took hold in Moscow and began to spread throughout the rest of Russia. On March 11, 1918, the government of the soviets with Lenin at the head moved from Petrograd to Moscow, which again became the capital of the nation...[+]