The entire Smolny Palace was brightly lit. There were crowds of people terrified and uneasy in the corridors. In each room, there were scenes of panic and fanaticism, but the most enthusiastic and passionate was at the corner of the corridor upstairs. In the last room there, the Military Revolutionary Committee was meeting. Several girls were exhausted, but they were still tenaciously coping with the incredible pressure brought by those who came to ask for explanations, listen to instructions, make various demands and complaints.

The "revolutionaries" entrenched in Smolny Palace, after learning that they were surrounded by government forces, quickly fell into two extremes: some of them were pessimistic and disappointed, and they did not understand anyway: during the day they were still the attacking party and the winners, but now they were forced to defend here, not far from failure; but most of them were controlled by a fanatical revolutionary enthusiasm, and soldiers and workers who did not understand the truth believed that the moment is the darkness before dawn. As long as they muster up the courage to block the attack of the government forces, it will not take long for revolutionary teams across the country to pour into Petersburg, and victory will eventually belong to the great Bolsheviks!

If outsiders enter here, they can see very anxious faces and hands asking for instructions or letters of appointment from all directions.

In the last room, several people sat at the table, sending their orders to the uprising cities across the country like electric currents. Some major tasks and appointments were decided here. The typist kept typing the dictated documents on the spot, and Lenin and others immediately spread the documents on their knees and signed them with pencils.

Lenin kept issuing orders to inquire about other cities of uprising. His only hope now is to wait for foreign aid and send envoys to negotiate with government troops outside. Lenin was still lucky, hoping that the enthusiasm of the revolution could infect the leaders of the government troops. He even gave the envoy a letter of appointment: as long as the troops besieged Smolny Palace evacuated, after the revolution was successful, he appointed the generals of this government troops as the commander of the city defense in Petersburg.

An hour passed, two hours passed... In a small room in the Smolny Palace, the chairs in the room were full of coats and hats, and members of the military committee headed by Lenin were squeezed around a dimly lit table.

The few people in front of him were all comrades who chose to stay and carry out the revolution to the end. Lenin did not talk too much nonsense and said straight to the point, "Comrades, I am almost certain that in the Petersburg uprising, there were shameful traitors, but it is not important now. Comrades, the situation is very critical now. Even if the reinforcements are on the way to Petersburg, with the hundreds of people in the Smolny Palace, if the government forces attack now, we can last for an hour at most, perhaps shorter. We must make a decision, whether to break through or defend the enemy?"

Lenin's words revealed a sense of sadness. This great revolutionary mentor had to consider the way out. The military committee members who deeply understood Lenin's heart pretended to behave for a few minutes, and then unanimously decided: in order to maintain the spark of revolution, retreat to advance, a few loyal soldiers would be selected to escort Lenin to break through, and other committee members would also wear makeup to break through in batches.

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Put on a military coat, a military cap, and a military boot, each of the military commissioners had a pistol in his hand. After 11 o'clock, seeing that the rebels were reluctant to surrender, Oleg sent a telegram to Moscow, asking for the next instructions. Soon, Anna replied: The rebels in the Smolny Palace were not simple, the bewitched soldiers and workers, but the stubborn Bolshevik backbone members, and "stolen guns and not killing" was not suitable for them.

After carefully reading the princess' call back, Oleg understood that at 11:35, he formally ordered the entire army to attack, "Kill without any consequences!"

As a pioneer, the armored vehicles quickly broke through the gate, crushed the rebels' simple defense line, and kept firing on the vehicle machine guns, quickly drove all the rebels into the palace. Then came the fire spitting soldiers, with more than a dozen flame tongues running around in the corridor, and each room was ruthlessly grilled. The infantry kept shooting the "revolutionaries" running around, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt meat and blood.

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The battle with extremely disparity in strength soon ended. The originally gorgeous Smolny Palace lost its color. At dawn, the Russian army began to clean the battlefield - they wanted to find Lenin's body as soon as possible.

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On October 25, under martial law throughout Petersburg, Anna and Grand Duke Mikhail came to the capital for inspection. After learning about Lenin captured alive, Anna was very happy. In addition to commending the relevant personnel, she rushed to Petersburg overnight to preside over the trial of Lenin.

When Lenin woke up from his coma, several days had passed. He did not know that under the hype of government propaganda agencies, the Bolsheviks were labeled as "traitorous". The large amount of information obtained by Stalin and Zorg, with the cooperation of surrendered Bulgarian Party members, such as "the Bolsheviks colluded with the Germans" and "Lenin and the Bulgarian Party members were willing to sell their national interests for their own selfishness." Their headlines became major newspapers. In short, since 1914, a series of failures in the Russian army's war against Germany have been pushed to Lenin and his party members.

In November, after a period of preparation, a grand trial of Lenin and other major members of the Bulgarian Party was grandly held in Petersburg. The trial was semi-public, and the journalists were specially screened. Their task was to expose the "conspiracy and sinister intentions of the Bolsheviks."

During the trial, Lenin did not say a word and confessed to all crimes. After a week of trial, the judge announced the result of the trial: Lenin and six others were sentenced to hang, and the rest were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of varying degrees. When the judge read the verdict, Lenin was shocked. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he could only make a "ah... woo..." sound - his tongue was cut off.

On November 12, six death row prisoners including Lenin were hung with signs of "Traitors of the Motherland!" and "Scum of the Russian nation!" and tied to wooden stakes. After several hours of parade, they were taken to the gallows in the city center.

Along the way, the secret service personnel dressed as ordinary civilians kept making excuses. Under their inspiration, the women, children and elderly people who lost their relatives in the war regarded Lenin as an accomplice of the German army, eggs, garbage, and even bricks and stones, and threw Lenin from all directions. Along the way, Lenin was beaten to the point of bleeding, but he could only moan in pain and could not say a word.

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Finally, when the noose was placed on his neck, Lenin looked indifferently at the endless crowd of onlookers. His heart was bleeding, he was praying silently and cursing silently. With the order of the prison officer, Lenin only felt his throat tightening and his breathing became more and more difficult. He kept kicking his feet...

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Chapter completed!