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Barricades on Petrograd 1917. THE GRITTY reality of the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century has been brought to light thanks to a series of expertly colourised images. Striking pictures show Vladimir Lenin disguised as factory worker KP Ivanov at Razliz station in August 1917, Lenin with Joseph Stalin in 1922 and revolutionaries and women and former members of the Russian Army holding up a plaque that states ???The tyranny has collapsed and the chains are broken???. Other stunning colour shots show the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II with his family and visiting the army in 1916, the Tsar family executor Jakob Jurovsky and the February revolution taking place in 1917. The original black and white photographs were painstakingly colourised by artist Viacheslav Peregudov (51), from Irkutsk, Russia. Viacheslav Peregudov / mediadrumimages.com