Evstifeev and revolution

Today in Vladimir they celebrated the anniversary of the Great October Revolution. Special scope did not work.

In the afternoon, the festive procession of the Communist Party was held along the central streets of the city, remembered by a truck of the Great Patriotic War and the heart -rending cries of the young communist Nikolsky. The same Vladimir who wanted to know about the October Revolution more than simple slogans gathered in the evening on an excursion of Roman Evstifeev.

This is not to say that 100 years ago something very unusual happened in our city, there were no big events. Nevertheless, the event gathered about 50 participants.

The first place of our stop was the building of the Vladimir post office (Podbelsky St., 2). This building was built in 1910, and initially it housed a boarding house for children who studied at the gymnasium. In 1917, it was the Council of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies.

For the most part, the Vladimirites themselves, but visiting people, participated in the revolution. In 1914, about 2 million people lived in the Vladimir province, more than 40 thousand in the city of Vladimir. At that time there was practically no industry in Vladimir, so in 1917, only about 500 workers lived in it.

The largest role in this story was played by soldiers of two reserve infantry regiments stationed in our city. Each such regiment consisted of 8 thousand people, 90% of which were visitors. Most of these soldiers no longer wanted to the front, so the propaganda of the Bolsheviks among them was successful. They actively participated in soldiers' committees.

A week before November 7, the 2nd Congress of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies decided to refuse to support the Provisional Government. The revolutionaries were waiting for a signal from Petrograd to take power completely. Such a signal was a secret radiogram with the words "the speaker will be."

The next point of our program was the Governor's House (Bolshaya Moskovskaya St., 62). In early March 1917, revolutionary soldiers came here and arrested the governor of Kreiton with his wife. After that, the Executive Committee was located here, which was subordinate to the Provisional Government. The Socialist -Revolutionaries and Cadets met in it, while the Bolsheviks played the main role in the Council of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies. In October 1917, after a coup in Petrograd, the Bolsheviks sent a detachment of fighters here. The Executive Committee of the Provisional Government did not provide them with armed resistance and resigned his authority. The Bolsheviks occupied this room and did not let it go until 1991.

Further, the tour proceeded to Cathedral Square and ended at the bank building.

Ilya Kosygin

Photo: Yaroslav Lomov