The Shadow of the Winter PalaceExactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden Age of intellectual and artistic achievement the century of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, of Rimsky Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. A master stylist and a