1917 Bolshevik seizure of key objects in Petrograd
One hundred years ago, on November 6, 1917, detachments of soldiers, sailors and Red Guards, subordinate to the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, which was under the control of the Bolsheviks, seized railway stations, bridges, banks, telegraphs, printing houses and power plants in Petrograd. Only the Winter Palace remained under the control of the Provisional Government, where, however, electricity and telephone communications were cut off.