All was well until the October Revolution, when Pavel Ryabushinsky and the rest of the clan fled to France.
Depressingly, this was a smaller share than on the eve of the October revolution of 1917, when a quarter of the population was estimated to have been middle-class.
It was from here that Peter undertook the first great modernization of Russia, where citizens agitated for the October Revolution that ushered in the Communist age, and where residents later pushed for Democratic reform as Communism crumbled.
When he arrived in St Petersburg just after the October Revolution in 1905, he made an immediate impression on the church authorities and was quickly brought into the presence of the royal family who harboured the terrible secret of Tsarevich Alexei's haemophilia.
The East has always had very close ties with the Russian Empire and joined the Soviet Union shortly after the Great October Revolution in 1917.
The Soviet-named anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution was celebrated for more than 80 years - albeit renamed as the Day of Reconciliation and Accord after the collapse of communism.
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Tymoshenko, the heroine of the Orange Revolution that swept the country in 2004 and 2005, has been in prison since last October for alleged abuse of office.
The test, which covered the Russian revolution, was supposed to include an image of the painting Storming the Winter palace on 25th October 1917 by Nikolai Kochergin.
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