ST. PETERSBURG/MOSCOW — The small museum in St. Petersburg located in the apartment where Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin lived in the months before the October 1917 Bolshevik coup was inexplicably closed one recent weekday afternoon.
RFE/RL: Perplexed Russians ask ‘who am I to judge?’ on revolution centenary
Russian Communist supporters walk along the Red square to lay flowers at Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow on Nov. 5, to celebrate the forthcoming 100th anniversary of The Bolshevik Revolution.
Russia is set to hold low-key events to mark a century since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on Nov. 7, with authorities uncertain how to assess the uprising that led to 70 years of Communist rule.
