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WAR AND REVOLUTION (1914–1921)

Where are you, genuine authentic freedom; when will you come and remain with us always?

—Ivan Pavlov, 1918

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A scene from Mstislav Dobuzhinskii’s From the Life of Petrograd in 1920. In better days, the artist had socialized with the Pavlovs at their summer home in Sillamiagi; now he portrayed the death throes of their Petrograd (St. Petersburg) during the civil war. © 2014, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg