Author Archives: ianfries

Hello! Since we just watched The Rite of Spring, I figured it might be appropriate to have some works of music from the other Cultural Revolutions we’ve studied, as well as an additional piece composed roughly contemporaneously to compare with The … Continue reading →

The Peter and Paul Cathedral in the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg. The Cathedral houses the remains of all the Russian tsars and tsarinas from Peter I to Nicholas II (whose remains were delivered in 1998), minus Peter II … Continue reading →

Per Clausewitz, war is the continuation of politics by other means. In the summer of 1917 during the height of political turmoil, Alexander Kerensky launched a new major offensive in Galicia (now a part of Poland and Ukraine) to build … Continue reading →