To mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Front Row asked a selection of cultural figures to champion the art works, inspired by the events of 1917, they most admire.
Director Peter Greenaway selects the Sergei Eisenstein film, Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Vasily Petrenko selects Shostakovich’s Symphony No 12, subtitled The Year of 1917 (1961)
Viv Groskop selects a poem by Anna Akhmatova called Kogda v toske (1918)
Natalia Murray selects The Year 1918 in Petrograd, also called Petrograd Madonna (1920)