History of Russia: “Children of Petrograd. Way across Vladivostok” exhibition

V. K. Arsenyev Primorye State Integrated Museum (Vladivostok) has staged an exhibition entitled “Children of Petrograd. Way across Vladivostok”, which sheds light on a forced world tour of a large group of children and their stay in Vladivostok between 1919 and 1920. In spring 1918 around 900 children were sent from a famine-stricken Petrograd to summer camps of the South Urals. The way back home took long three years, one of which children and adults spent in Vladivostok.

The exhibition “Children of Petrograd. Way across Vladivostok” is based on diaries, letters and news in pictures originating from family archives, documents of the State Archive of the Far East and the Archive of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace of Stanford University (USA).