Dear annisa-ga,
Lenin arrived by train at the Finland Railway Station (Finlandsky
Vokzal), St Petersburg, or Petrograd as it was known at that time, on
4 April 1917 (old style) or 16 April (new style). Russia changed their
calendar in 1923 ? see this site for more information
http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/Russia.html
These two sites confirm the dates:
"The Swedes would not help return him but the Germans offered a sealed
railway car which would take Lenin across enemy lines and back to
Russia. "It was with a sense of awe," wrote Winston Churchill of
Lenin's German support, "that they turned upon Russia the most grisly
of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague
bacillus into Russia." Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station
late at night on April 3 and gave a speech before he had even left the
platform."
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture5.html
Lenin?s arrival in St Petersburg dated as Apr. 16 (N.S.; Apr. 3, O.S.)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7477/lenin.htm
The train was 'sealed' in respect that an agreement had been made with
the Germans that Lenin could travel back to Russia from Switzerland
via Germany, Sweden, and Finland providing that: no one could enter
the railway car in which the emigrants were travelling without the
permission; no person could leave the railway car; nor was there to
be any inspection of passports or luggage.
It does not appear to have had its windows sealed for they could look
out of the windows as evidenced by the reminiscences of one of the
passengers ? "....looking out of the carriage window" (see below)
A description of the negotiations and journey appears in
Krupskaya's "Reminiscences of Lenin"
Krupskaya was a Russian revolutionary, writer, educator and Secretary
of the Bolshevik Faction of the Social Democratic Party.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/index.htm
"Vladimir Ilyich insisted that negotiations be opened through Fritz
Platten, the Swiss Socialist-Internationalist. Platten came to a
definite written understanding with the German Ambassador in
Switzerland. The principal points of this agreement were: 1. That all
emigrants were to be allowed to go regardless of their views on the
war, 2. That no one could enter the railway car in which the emigrants
were travelling without the permission of Platten. There was to be no
inspection of passports or luggage; 3. That the passengers undertook
to agitate in Russia for a corresponding number of Austro-German
internees to be repatriated by way of exchange."
"The defencists raised a terrible hullabaloo about the Bolsheviks
travelling through Germany. Naturally, the German Government gave
permission for us to travel through Germany in the belief that
revolution was a disaster to a country, and that by allowing emigrant
internationalists to return to their country they were helping to
spread the revolution to Russia"
http://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/rol/rol21.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/rol/rol22.htm
A very detailed account of the train journey from the book The Sealed
Train, appears at
http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com/pearson/lenin_36.html
The site is badly designed. Use this link to obtain further
information on Lenin before and after his train journey.
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+site:yamaguchy.netfirms.com+lenin+1917+%22sealed+train%22
I hope this answers your question. If it does not, or the answer is
unclear, then please ask for clarification of this research before
rating the answer. I shall respond to the clarification request as
soon as I receive it.
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