The centennial of the Russian revolution is not a big thing in modern Russia. It feels like an obscure old holiday or a literary anniversary known only to the initiated. It is no longer a historical event that forms the nation’s founding myth.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) greets young cadets at the monument of Minin and Pozharsky on the Red Square near the Kremlin during the National Unity Day in Moscow on Nov. 4.
The monument commemorates Russian Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and merchant Kuzma Minin, who gathered a volunteer army and expelled from Moscow the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under the command of King Sigismund III of Poland in 1612.
