Leon Trotsky

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

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  Performed here

  Free Economic Society Building

  As a leading figure and chairman of the 1905 Soviet, he spoke and presided at meetings held in the building.

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  Lived here

  Kresty Prison

  Jailed in Kresty after the Dec 1905 Soviet arrest and again after the July 1917 Days (with other Bolsheviks); released Sep 1917 (encspb names L.D. Trotsky among July prisoners).

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  Lived here

  Peter and Paul Fortress

  After the 1905 Soviet arrest spent time in Peter and Paul Fortress before trial and Siberian exile; in Oct 1917 the fortress was an MRC strongpoint under his Military Revolutionary Committee.

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  Lived here

  Tauride Palace

  As chairman of the Petrograd Soviet (Sep–Dec 1917) worked at Tauride, seat of the Soviet; earlier 1905 Soviet politics also centred on the capital’s soviet venues.

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  Performed here · 1917–1918

  Смольный институт

  Organized the Military Revolutionary Committee and October uprising from Smolny.