On March 27, 2021, the first publication prepared by …

On March 27, 2021, the first publication prepared by the Newspaper Department of the Russian National Library was published on the VChK-OGPU channel. Over the past year, more than 50 materials have been published, we have selected the most interesting of them:

“Tank on the corn”: army humor 90 years ago.

Murder of Lenka Panteleev

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How the French court acquitted Petliura’s killer

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1976 article about Vladimir Putin in the newspaper “Evening Leningrad”

Assassination of Leon Trotsky

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Newspaper of the First Cavalry Army “Red Cavalryman”

“The Case of the Five Monarchists – Terrorists” and the explosion in the central party club of Leningrad in 1927

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Pre-revolutionary Tinder: how they looked for a couple 110 years ago

How a jury in 1878 acquitted the terrorist Vera Zasulich, who tried to kill the St. Petersburg mayor.

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The fate of Sergei Voitsekhovsky

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The murder of the Soviet plenipotentiary Vorovsky by the White Guard Conradi

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Unemployed intelligentsia on the streets of Petrograd

The first police newspaper of Russia

Who and how rallied in Petrograd in 1917

“Deo spes mea” (God is our hope, the motto of the Stolypin family): publications in Russian newspapers after the death of P.A. Stolypin

Women sailors in 1917

“The collapse of a spy career”: the case of Oleg Penkovsky

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Everyday life in Leningrad in January 1942

“Provocative attack”: anti-Soviet actions of young Europeans in Moscow in 1970

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“Mug” collection: what was given to front-line soldiers for Christmas during the First World War