Finding gems in the Russian Revolution
![New Exhibition Caught in the Russian Revolution at the Parkinson Building, Leeds..Curator Richard Davies looks at the Patent of Russian Nobility at the Exhibition.22nd February 2017 ..Picture by Simon Hulme](https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/webimg/legacy_ash_88127735.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
![New Exhibition Caught in the Russian Revolution at the Parkinson Building, Leeds..Curator Richard Davies looks at the Patent of Russian Nobility at the Exhibition.22nd February 2017 ..Picture by Simon Hulme](/img/placeholder.png)
An exhibition of personal and previously unseen material, set to capture interest nation-wide opens in Leeds next month.
Caught in the Russian Revolution: the British Community in Petrograd, 1917-1918” draws on material from the Leeds Russian Archive - the only archive in Britain dedicated to Russia.
It includes eyewitness accounts, diaries, letters, and photographs from what was by then a well established British community, only to become hugely disrupted following the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917.
Curator, Richard Davies said: “I could have put on ten exhibitions without difficulty, it was quite hard to select items.”