The Bolsheviks destroyed the interior of the Winter Palace after taking it over.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Sources support that Bolsheviks ransacked and trashed the palace's imperial apartments and riches after seizing it, but they do not support the claim's implied total destruction of the interior. One source also places much of the interior damage after February 1917 rather than after the October seizure, and the palace's interiors were later restored.
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… That's why I quote, you know, Moses Hassen, a lot of these guys, and that's the nature of the Shabbat movement. Right now, I know I can't do the guttural sound, but everyone knows what I'm, what I'm talking about. Even when they took over the Winter Palace, the Bolsheviks destroyed everything inside. They wiped feces on things. You know, it was, it was almost a form of possession. They didn't just kill Zar Nicholas in a ritual. …
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Contradicts. A scholarly paper says the interiors were seriously damaged, but that this damage began after the February 1917 events rather than in October, so the destruction is not solely a post-seizure Bolshevik act.[2]
Contradicts. The sources describe ransacking of a portion of the palace and trashing of the imperial suite, not the destruction of 'everything inside' as the post asserted; the Gothic Library survived and the Hermitage was largely spared, and the Nicholas II suite was restored in 1922.[2][3][4]
Supports. An eyewitness account cited by the Nicholas II history page records a systematic destruction of the Imperial apartments by the Bolsheviks on 25 October 1917, after the Provisional Government's arrest.[3]
Supports. The Saint Petersburg palace history states that in the ensuing anarchy after the October storming, a portion of the palace's riches were ransacked, including the Imperial wine cellars, though looting did not extend to the Hermitage.[4]
Context. The seizure itself is documented as an improvised assault by Red Guards, soldiers and sailors, with no account in these excerpts of the interior's wholesale destruction.[1][5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1Taking of the Winter Palace | Seventeen Moments in Soviet Historysoviethistory.msu.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 2[PDF] RUSSIAN IMPERIAL SPACE OF POWER IN THE FIRST POSTpublications.hse.ru · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Nicholas II – Page 34 – Nicholas IItsarnicholas.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 4The Winter Palace in St. Petersburgsaint-petersburg.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 57. Capture of the Winter Palacemarxists.org · not rated · cited for: context
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