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The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow during WWI, German official photographer. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 86905).
- The Bolshevik government of Vladimir Lenin moves the Russian capital from Petrograd to Moscow. Moscow is located further away from the German presence and is therefore more defensible.