20th-century and modern reenactment movements

During the early twentieth century, historical reenactment became very popular in Russia with reenactments of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855) (1906), the Battle of Borodino (1812) in St Petersburg and the Taking of Azov (1696) in Voronezh in 1918. In 1920, the 1917 Storming of the Winter Palace