Seizure of church valuables (1921-1922)

A doctor conducts a medical examination of children in a children's sanatorium.

Children play on the terrace.

Toddlers synchronously perform exercises with dumbbells.

Cutting honey from honeycombs.

Pupils of one of the children's colonies repair shoes.

A young orator speaks at a rally in a children's colony.

Faces of young participants in the rally, the colony's pupils applaud the orator.

Pupils of the children's colony go for a walk with their teachers, followed by Kalinin M.I. with the colony's management.

Kalinin among the colony's pupils.

Faces of Kalinin and children.

Ships in the river port.

Ruins of one of the industrial enterprises.

Ruins of an industrial enterprise.

Panorama of a war-ravaged area and ruins of a city block.

A food convoy moves across the steppe, with camels harnessed to the carts.

Panorama of abandoned stacks of grain, a camel at a haystack.

People gather ears of corn in a field during the drought of 1921.

People gather ears of corn in the field during the drought.

People who fled from the starving areas lie near tents, a child near the body of his dead mother.

A horse dying on the ground.

Corpses of children who died of hunger.

View of the square in front of the monastery.

The authorized representative presents the priest with documents on the confiscation of church valuables for the benefit of the starving.

The priest gets acquainted with the documents and reads them carefully.

The priest and the members of the commission for the confiscation compare the presence of church valuables with the inventory.

Inventory of the confiscated icon frames.

Removal of icon frames from the iconostasis.

Panorama of the square in front of the monastery.

Horse patrol in the cordon.

People on the square in front of the monastery during the confiscation of church valuables.

People's faces on the square.

Inventory of the confiscated icon frames.

Cleaning and removing the frames from the icons.

Utensils left to the church.

Preparation of valuables and church utensils for shipment to the Main Museum.

Silver items in a warehouse in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

The authorized representative and the priest check the inventories of the confiscated and surrendered church valuables.

Bishop Antonin gets acquainted with the measures for protecting the confiscated church valuables, listens to the explanations of the head of security.

Bishop Antonin gets into the car.

Bishop Antonin and the representatives of the Central Committee of Pomgol go to the Gokhran building.

People are standing in the street, a tram passes by.

Bishop Antonin and his entourage get out of the car and go to the storage facility.

Special authorized representative of the Council of People's Commissars Bazilevich shows the members of the commission the warehouses and storage conditions of the confiscated church valuables.

Unloading the box with valuables under armed guard.

Checking the integrity of the seal on the box.

Checking the strength and integrity of the packaging.

Faces of the members of the Commission for Aid to the Famine.

Drawing up an act of acceptance of valuables.

The process of selecting items of artistic value.

Museum employees inspect a 16th century bowl.

Conducting an expert assessment of the value and weighing the confiscated church cult items.

Jewelers at work.

Extraction of precious stones and pearls from church plate.

A crying hungry child.

The control group representatives close and seal the room at the end of the working day.

The military guard takes the room under protection, checks the seals, the guard takes up his post at the entrance to the vault.