HY 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Gorgonian, Saint Petersburg, Leap Year
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Russia collapses (1917 in the east: the collapse of imperial russia, food riots in petrograd. Estimated that needed 12,500 train wagons of food. Only 2 months of 1916 got that much. End of 1916 two months got the price of one (6,000 each month) Tsar government has failed to meet the needs of the people. Nicholas ii police agent wrote: when the revolution comes it will most likely come as a hunger riot. Several bakeries had to close because no flour, or coal to burn in the ovens. So, as time goes on you get more and more out of sink. Easter moves out of phase blah blah blah. So, 1540s the new gorgonian calendar has a leap year. Feb 1916, riots broke out in petrograd but everywhere else it is mid. Kept a few regiments of soldiers stationed near the capital. Not the outskirts of petrograd it was stationed inside the city limits.