After the February Revolution in Petrograd, it was restless. Every day, newspapers reported murders, robberies, rape. But in 1917, a lot of curious incidents took place in the capital. We prepared a selection of reports about such episodes from the Petrograd leaflet. All dates are given according to the Julian calendar (“old style”). Below are excerpts from articles, with full text, you can familiarize yourself with the links (digitized originals of publications from the funds of the newspaper Department of the Russian National Library).
“Arrest” convinced “monarchist”
“Yesterday, a certain Anton Khlopushin was detained at the Paris Hotel, accused of Black -Hundred agitation. The arrested in the crowd distributed rumors that Petrograd would be blown up no later than two weeks later.
He called members of the Council of Workers and Soldiers’ Deputies to the dog deputies.
During the interrogation, Khlopushin said that he was “convinced” by the monarchist and did not want to recognize the new system. Detained before the judicial investigator of the 17th site “
“Petrograd sheet“. August 26, 1917
“In the footsteps of Khlestakov”
Yesterday, two soldiers appeared in the restaurant of Contain, who, presenting the warrant for the right to make a search, told the administration that they were ordered to take a search in the restaurant cellar.
The restaurant administration, however, reacted to the order suspiciously and, asking the soldier to wait, sent for the police.
The appeared police found that no order for a search was given to anyone, and that the order presented by the soldiers undoubtedly fake. They immediately arrested both soldiers. One of them during the arrest called Grudinkin, the other Ryazanov.
It is believed that the Khlestakov intended to take a search in the Contane cellar in order to get a drink “
“Petrograd sheet“, August 4, 1917
“Arrest of the Commissioner of the Police”
“On the night of yesterday, by order of the police of the 2nd Peterhof Nede, the police officer Shishko was arrested.
As they transmit, he is charged with the permissible concealment and destruction of the documents of the commissariat, as well as an too condescending attitude to the storage of reserves of confiscated drinks, which with extraordinary speed “dried up” in the commissariat ”
“Petrograd sheet“, July 18, 1917
“Beauty Institute”
“The original“ institution ”under the sign of the“ Institute of Beauty ”settled in the square. No. 12, houses No. 23 on Zagorodnoy Prospekt. This apartment was rented by Mrs. Volkova.
On Sunday night, the police department urgently reported that a rod-visitors-officers beat and chop furniture, threaten the lives of other inhabitants at the Institute. In view of this, representatives of the police immediately arrived at the scene. At that moment, the nephew of the former Minister of Justice and Chairman of the State Council, Lieutenant Shcheglovitov, warrant officer del, one artist, the wife of the “doctor”, as well as several other ladies and gentlemen, was in the apartment. In one of the rooms of the institute, police found an album in which photographic cards of exclusively young ladies and young girls were collected. All these ladies, as it turned out, at the right moment as good acquaintances of the owner of the institute, were called up and took part in feasts “
“Petrograd sheet“, May 2, 1917
“Bomb in the City Duma”
“Yesterday, with unusually speed, a sensational rumor spread that under the building of the City Duma, an unusual force filled with Melinitis or dynamite was discovered. When checking, it turned out that the reason for the spread of such anxious hearing was a very insignificant circumstance, rather a humorous nature.
In the afternoon, a party of weapons intended for the city police was delivered in the Duma premises. Parsing the things brought, the police found a children’s bomb, rather heavy, but not stuffed. One of the policemen jokingly said that the bomb should be lowered into the water.
One of the random visitors heard this phrase and smashed it throughout Petrograd on the phone, but in a completely different lighting. “
“Petrograd sheet“, March 7, 1917
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