Battle of Petrograd
1919 CE.
Shown on the map at 60.050°, 31.750°.
The Battle of Petrograd was a campaign started in 1919 by the White movement to take the city of Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg). The city held significant value for the Bolsheviks, as it was the same city in which the October Revolution had taken place. The battle coincided with the White Army's campaign to capture Moscow. The newly formed Northwestern Army launched an attack from Narva, on the eastern edge of Estonian territory, and drove toward Petrograd. The White Army saw a string of victories on the road to Petrograd. After the White advance severed a railroad junction from Pskov to Petrograd, the Bolsheviks began to fear the city would soon fall. Trotsky personally went to Petrograd to rally the city's defenses, and a rail line through Tosno brought in supplies and reinforcements from Moscow. The advance was stalled and reversed, and soon the Whites were forced to retreat into Estonia. Hoping to secure a peace deal with Soviet Russia, the Estonian government refused to allow the Northwestern Army to be stationed in the nation. The White cause had begun to disintegrate across Russia, however.
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