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Winter Palace: The Revolution Wine Riot

"The greatest hangover in history"—October 1917, Bolsheviks ransacked Winter Palace's imperial wine cellars, red wine flooded St. Petersburg streets for a month.

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TourWinter Palace: The Revolution Wine RiotIn 1917, soldiers discovered "the largest wine cellar in the world." They shot barrels, poured wine down drains (people drank from gutters), and threw bottles in the Neva (crowds jumped in). Only martial law stopped the rampage.