The February uprising sparked a brief period of democratic rule before the Bolsheviks seized power – and the legacy of 1917 still divides the countryOn a recent evening at Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery,Vladimir Lenin paced back and forth, debating the finer points of Marxist theory, and Vladimir Mayakovsky thundered staccato lines of poetry from atop a pedestal,and the monk Grigory Rasputin mused ominously on the future of Russia.
The event, in which hundreds of contemporary Moscow’s artistic and creative elite dressed as tsarist-era aristocrats, and ate black caviar by the spoonful and drank champagne,was the launch party for an ambitious current project designed to bring the events of 1917 to life for contemporary Russians 100 years later.
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Source: theguardian.com