Looks more like Aurora to me (Potemkin has a lifeboat that would be sticking out, and if you zoom in you can see circle things, which look the front facing tubes on the Aurora, but has no equivalent on the Potemkin). That's the cruiser that fired the shot that signaled the Assault of the Winter Palace.
can anyone tell me the significance of the ship in the background?
Not a military buff by any measure but I wonder if it's the Battleship Potemkin maybe?
It's significant in Russian/Soviet history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Potemkin
Looks more like Aurora to me (Potemkin has a lifeboat that would be sticking out, and if you zoom in you can see circle things, which look the front facing tubes on the Aurora, but has no equivalent on the Potemkin). That's the cruiser that fired the shot that signaled the Assault of the Winter Palace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Aurora
It says a lot that my initial reaction was "How can you tell the difference??" lol
I think I'm gonna defer to your judgement on this one.