Everyday life in bourgeois Estonia (1938-1939)

Views of Tallinn streets.

Car traffic and a traffic controller at an intersection.

People looking at a shop window of a clothing store.

A traffic controller at an intersection.

Car traffic and people on the streets of the city.

View of a building with a cafe on the ground floor.

A waitress serves customers at a table on the summer veranda.

A man and a woman at a cafe table.

The waitress's face.

A dove sits on a customer's wrist, the man brings the dove to his face.

A man in glasses feeds a squirrel nuts from a bag, the squirrel climbs onto his shoulder.

A woman with a bag in her hands feeds a squirrel nuts, the squirrel climbs into the bag.

A swan on the surface of a park pond.

A fountain in the form of a female figure.

View of an ancient castle and the spire of the cathedral in Tallinn.

Pigeons on the asphalt.

A man feeds a pigeon from his hand.

A man sits on a bench in the park and feeds pigeons.

Port workers sit on a bench on the pier waiting for the arrival of a cargo ship.

Workers smoking pipes, talking to each other.

Workers on the pier.

Views of dilapidated and abandoned factory buildings.

Walls and broken windows remaining from the buildings.

Interior views of abandoned production facilities.

View of part of an abandoned factory building with a chimney.

View of an abandoned construction crane destined for demolition.

A gas cutter cuts the metal base of the crane.

The crane falls to the ground.

View of the fallen crane, engineers decide on its further disposal.

Panorama of the debris of the crane structure.

A gas cutter at work.

View of an old concrete factory chimney destined for demolition.

Workers crush the base of the pipe with a pneumatic hammer to plant explosives.

Collapse of the pipe as a result of an explosion.

An Estonian peasant ploughs the land with a plough.

A peasant leads a horse to the house.

View of an Estonian peasant house.

Harvesting grain crops by hand.

A woman mows the grain, a man ties the sheaves and stacks them.

A woman leads a cow to the barn.

Fishing boats on the seashore of the island of Osmusaar.

Nets hanging to dry.

A woman gets water from a well.

View of an old windmill.

Village children going to school.

Feet of walking children.

Pupils take off their shoes before entering the school, pupils' shoes in front of the porch.

Children entering the school, panorama of the wall of the school building with a sign.

Pupils' shoes in front of the school entrance.

Views of village streets.

Everyday life and everyday life of Estonian peasants.

Women weave fishing nets.

A mother feeds small children porridge.

The face of one of the children.

A woman approaches an Orthodox chapel and crosses herself.

An elderly woman with a yoke on her shoulder passes by.

A woman goes to a shoemaker's shop.

The bells in the belfry are ringing.

A bell ringer in the belfry.

The bell ringers ring the bells.

The icon above the entrance to the monastery.

An elderly woman makes the sign of the cross, the icon of the Mother of God Hodegetria.

Pilgrims at the monastery wall.

Giving alms to a beggar.

The bell ringer rings the bells.

Faces of elderly women praying.

A religious procession around the monastery.

A priest sprinkles parishioners with holy water.

A sign above the entrance to a liquor store.

A queue at a liquor store.

A man comes out of the store with bottles in his hands, stuffs them into his pockets.

Bast shoes on the feet of peasants who have come to the market.

A peasant sells a piglet.

Loading ore into mine carts.

Workers gather at the water pump.

Rolling back ore carts in a mine.

View of an industrial enterprise, a train of ore carts passes by.

Panorama of a part of a workers' settlement, barracks for workers.

Views of the buildings of the Krenholm Manufactory in Narva.

Production processes in the workshops of the manufactory.

A stoker at the furnace.

Processing raw materials, equipment operation.

Workers at the machines.

Equipment in one of the workshops of the Krenholm Manufactory.

Views of the towers of the castle in Tallinn, a panorama of the old street adjacent to the castle, a man getting out of a car.

View of part of the city prison building.

A guard walks through the yard.

Escorting an arrested person along the corridor to a cell, the warden unlocks and locks the bars in the corridor.

The warden walks along the corridor past the doors of the cells, looks through the peephole of one of the cells.

Prisoners doing excavation work.

A blaster places explosives under the stump of a felled tree.

Blowing a whistle.

Guards and prisoners hide in a trench.

A stump explodes.

Prisoners chop off the roots of a stump uprooted by an explosion.

Prisoners manually transport the remains of a tree stump using ropes.

Prisoners working in a quarry.

View of the quarry.

A guard at a barbed wire fence.

A machine gun on a guard tower, view of the quarry from the tower.

A policeman stands in the middle of a village street.

The face of a traffic controller.

Female workers at a factory go to work.

A shift of miners goes to the coalface.

The face of a traffic controller.

Reservists mobilized for training march along the street.

Reservists during paperwork.

Reservists receive uniforms.

Soldiers after disembarking from a railway carriage.

An infantry unit of the Estonian army marches on foot to an exercise area.

A cavalry unit is heading to an exercise area.

An artillery unit is heading for maneuvers.

An armored car drives by.

An attack by cavalry and tanks during an exercise.

Artillerymen roll a gun to a firing position.

The infantry attacks a simulated enemy through a forest.

Sappers install a barbed wire fence.

View of a part of the barbed wire fence.

Positions equipped for defense with dugouts.

View of a concrete long-term fire point in one of the fortified areas.

An officer observes through a stereoscopic telescope.

Summer landscape.