13Finland Station
Petrograd, Russia
April 16, 1917
Vladimir Lenin had a growing sense of excitement and destiny as the train approached Finland Station just before midnight. Other than a brief six-month visit around the time of the first revolution in 1905, Lenin had been in exile for seventeen years. This return to Russia would truly be a real homecoming. Although not physically present in Russia during all of those years, his revolutionary influences had been felt throughout the land. Between his well-circulated pamphlets and the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda, Lenin’s revolutionary credo was now widespread and gaining in influence as time marched on. “Mark this moment well, Comrade Moryak,” he beamed as the train slowly ground to a standstill at the train station. “History is being creat
