1917 Lenin's arrival in Petrograd

One hundred years ago, on April 16, 1917, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) arrived from Swiss exile in Petrograd, having traveled with his comrades through Germany in a sealed wagon. At the Finland Station, he delivered a speech in which, according to a newspaper report, "welcomed the revolutionary Russian proletariat and the revolutionary Russian army, who not only managed to liberate Russia from tsarist despotism, but also laid the foundation for a social revolution on an international scale, pointing out that the proletariat of the whole world looking with hope at the bold steps of the Russian proletariat.