16The Kremlin
Moscow, Russia
March 1918
As Lenin sat writing at his desk, he reviewed the events of the past several months. He was not proud of everything he had done, but all of his actions were for the sake of the revolution and therefore needed no other justification. In spite of the intense negotiations, the Germans still threatened to overrun Petrograd. As a precaution, Lenin ordered the city to be evacuated and moved the capital of the new government to Moscow. Lenin and the ruling Bolsheviks had been entrenched in the old Kremlin Fortress in Moscow for nearly a month. As he thought of the recently ratified Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that had finally removed Russia from the war, he knew that it was a necessary first step. Yes, the cost was high, he admitted, but it is the only way t
