Revolutionary events of 1917 in Russia (1917)

Chairman of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee N. I. Podvoisky stands by a train carriage.

Text of the order of the Provisional Government on the arrest of V. I. Lenin.

Troops and barricades made of firewood on Palace Square in front of the Winter Palace in October 1917 (panorama).

Junkers building a barricade made of firewood in front of the Winter Palace.

Sentries on duty at the barricade on Palace Square, panorama of a part of the square.

Shock workers of the women's battalion led by M. L. Bochkareva at one of the entrances to the Winter Palace.

Machine guns on wheeled and stationary mounts at the entrance to Smolny, an armed guard of soldiers and Red Guards.

A military unit climbs the steps and enters Smolny.

Residents of Petrograd at the Winter Palace after its capture by revolutionary troops.

Damage to one of the walls of the palace.

One of the broken windows of the palace.

Text of the appeal "To the citizens of Russia".

Texts of calls to repel the troops of Kerensky and Krasnov, advancing on Petrograd.

Detachments of revolutionary sailors and Red Guards leave for Gatchina.

A unit of sailors and Red Guards crosses a bridge.

Sisters of mercy in a car.

Armored cars near the wall of one of the buildings in Petrograd.

Revolutionary sailors at a machine gun.

Faces of members of the Military Revolutionary Headquarters.

First People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs P.E. Dybenko talks to members of the headquarters.

Dybenko's face.

A unit of Red Guards and sailors crosses a bridge near the Gatchina Palace.

View of part of the Spasskaya Tower with a clock, damaged as a result of artillery shelling of the Kremlin during the October battles in Moscow.

Damage to one of the buildings near the Nikitsky Gate, which housed the headquarters of the Red Guard.

Buildings of the Metropol Hotel, Aleksandrovsky and Alekseevsky military schools destroyed by artillery.

Faces of soldiers on the streets of Petrograd in July 1917. A unit of the Petrograd garrison marches along a city street.

Officers rock Kerensky after his speech at a rally.

Panorama and views of the demonstration in Petrograd on June 18, 1917, faces of the demonstration participants.

Clash between the demonstrators and the cadets, the cadets' banner is thrown into the Neva.

Fraternization of Russian and German soldiers at the front.

Faces of participants in a soldiers' rally.

Units of the Russian army cross a bridge.

Soldiers leaving the front ride on a railway platform.

A train with front-line soldiers who left their positions passes by, banners with slogans on the carriages.

Landscape in the area of Lake Razliv.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin in the summer of 1917. View of the Bolshoi Theater building before the State Conference on August 12, 1917. Conference participants walking to the first session.

People on Theater Square before the State Conference (panorama).

A military man greets A.F. Kerensky at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

General L.G. Kornilov among the military at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

Foreign diplomats and military attachés climb the steps of the Bolshoi Theater (still frame).

The daughter of the British ambassador Buchanan sits in a car.

Conference participants in front of the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.

General A.M. Kaledin, Ataman M.A. Karaulov, and M.V. Rodzianko talk to each other before the session.

Photograph of Rodzianko and manufacturer Ryabushinsky.

Delegates from the Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary parties at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater before the State Conference.

Revolutionary soldiers on the streets of Moscow in early March 1917, advancing to the City Duma.

Views of rallies near the Moscow City Duma building and on Theater Square.

The face of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government, P. N. Milyukov.

Students and soldiers with rifles at the entrance to the newly organized Prechistensky police station.

Changing of student sentries at the entrance to the station.

The face of G. V. Plekhanov.

Parade of military units loyal to the Provisional Government.

Assembly of heavy artillery guns in a plant workshop.

View of an ammunition manufacturing workshop. N. S. Chkheidze among members of the Petrograd Soviet.

Menshevik leaders of the Ministry of Labor K. A. Gvozdev and M. I. Skobelev.

View of one of the industrial enterprises.

The operation and stop of a connecting rod of one of the mechanisms.

Announcement of a strike.

Faces of workers participating in the strike. A. F. Kerensky. among his admirers after another rally, a motorcyclist rides down the street, throwing out leaflets.

People read the leaflets they picked up.

View of a demonstration on Nevsky Prospect in Petrograd in March 1917, demonstrators carry a banner with a slogan about universal suffrage.

Women carry banners with slogans demanding that they be granted voting rights.

Participants in the demonstration with slogans in defense of women's rights, a panorama of part of the demonstration.

View of the corridor of a workers' dormitory.

Cadets of the military schools of Petrograd march in formation across Palace Square during a demonstration of military educational institutions on March 19, 1917. Units of cadets from the infantry and cavalry schools and ensign schools march across Palace Square, led by brass bands (top).

A line of midshipmen from the Naval School with the St.

Andrew's flag and the red banner marches across Palace Square (top).

Panorama of Palace Square with units of the military schools of Petrograd lined up on it (top).

Petrograd District Commander General L.G. Kornilov, riding a horse, greets the passing troops.

Units of cadets march in front of Kornilov in a parade formation along Palace Square.

Cadets from one of the Petrograd artillery schools with guns march in mounted formation along Palace Square.

Cadets from the Nikolaevsky Cavalry School ride along Palace Square.

Panorama of a part of the Field of Mars during the funeral of the victims of the revolution on March 23, 1917; soldiers hold banners with mourning slogans.

A military brass band plays, banners and banners are carried past.