“_Commissars_….
“G. YATMANOV, B. MANDELBAUM.”
About half the loot was recovered, some of it in the baggage of
foreigners leaving Russia.
A conference of artists and arch?ologists, held at the suggestion of
Smolny, appointed a commission of make an inventory of the Winter
Palace treasures, which was given complete charge of the Palace and
of all artistic collections and State museums in Petrograd. On
November 16th the Winter Palace was closed to the public while the
inventory was being made….
During the last week in November a decree was issued by the Council
of People’s Commissars, changing the name of the Winter Palace to
“People’s Museum,” entrusting it to the complete charge of the
artistic-arch?ological commission, and declaring that henceforth all
Governmental activities within its wall were prohibited….
4.
RAPE OF THE WOMEN’S BATTALION
Immediately following the taking of the Winter Palace all sorts of
sensational stories were published in the anti-Bolshevik press, and
told in the City Duma, about the fate of the Women’s Battalion
defending the Palace. It was said that some of the girl-soldiers had
been thrown from the windows into the street, most of the rest had
been violated, and many had committed suicide as a result of the
horrors they had gone through.
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