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7 November 1917 Last Quarter, 40% lit

The October Revolution, in November

The Bolsheviks took the Winter Palace on a date Russia called 25 October and the rest of Europe called 7 November, and the anniversary was thereafter kept in November.

Russia was still on the Julian calendar and thirteen days behind; it switched three months later, deleting 1 to 13 February 1918. The storming itself was a good deal less dramatic than Eisenstein's film, which was shot in 1927 and is where most of the famous images come from.

Date
7 November 1917 25 October 1917 (Old Style)
Moon computed for
21:00 local time, UTC+2
Phase
Last Quarter
Illuminated
40%

Source: Decree of the Council of People's Commissars, 24 January 1918

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