ELIHU ROOT LEAVING A CHURCH IN THE FAMOUS KREMLIN OF MOSCOW..- 



The peculiar religious pictures on each side of the doorway are mural decorations 

 characteristic of many of the sacred buildings of the Slavic Empire 



Photograph by Paul Thompson 

 SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION BRINGING IN A CAPTURED POLICEMAN OF THE OLD 



REGIME: PETROGRAD 



"Practically without any serious convulsion the empire disappeared. The change came 

 like a ripe apple falling from a tree. A few days of killing and hunting down policemen 

 who were loyal to the government marked the end of any serious disorders in Petrograd. 

 The rest of Russia quietly accepted what Petrograd had done." 



