The 30-Year Transformation of Imperial Petersburg into Communist Leningrad: 1900-1930

Lecturer: Dr. Stephen R. de Angelis

ArtSmart Continuing Arts Education


This in-depth talk will discuss the lightning speed of Russia’s royal capital, after 307 years of Romanoff rule, into wartime Petrograd and into the City of Lenin. Experience a compelling look at an era when The Winter Palace Ballrooms became giant infirmaries, and after the 1917 Revolution, the city turns into total lockdown, while its riches are nationalized and bread lines emerge on the streets of Leningrad.