On which date in the Julian calendar did the 1917 women's march in Russia take place? February 23. The march began in Petrograd on 23 February 1917 under Russia’s Old Style Julian calendar, corresponding to 8 March in the Gregorian calendar then used by much of Europe.
Women textile workers went on strike and marched for “Bread and Peace,” protesting food shortages, the hardships of World War I, and tsarist rule. Their action helped ignite the February Revolution, which rapidly spread through Petrograd and contributed to the collapse of the Romanov monarchy.
The date is often reported simply as March 8 because that is the modern international observance. That is a calendar conversion, not a different march date. Russia continued using the Julian calendar until 1918, so contemporary Russian accounts dated the event February 23. Tsar Nicholas II abdicated seven days later, and the provisional government soon granted women the right to vote.