Red Terror in Petrograd

The collection includes evidence of eyewitnesses of the Red Terror 1918-1922. In Petrograd and relatives of those who died as a result of the repressions of the Bolsheviks against the class of people alien to them. These memoirs came out in different years in the emigrant press, some were preserved in the fund of the historian S.P. Melgunov in the archive of the Guver Institute of War, Revolution and the World (Palo-Alto, USA) A significant part of the memoirs is devoted to the tragic fate of the four Grand Dukes of the Romanovs (Pavel Alexandrovich, Nikolai and Georgy Mikhailovich and Dmitry Konstantinovich), executed in the Peter and Paul Fortress in January 1919. Most of the materials are published in Russia for the first time. The collection of memoirs is complemented by an article by modern researchers about the results of search work and the discovery of the remains of the victims of red terror in the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg