From the storming of the Winter Palace to the Constituent Assembly (1917-1918)

Red Guards and soldiers at a machine gun on the porch of Smolny in October 1917. A Red Guard at his post near the Lieutenant Schmidt armored car.

Checking passes at the gates at the entrance to Smolny.

A Maxim machine gun on a gun carriage mount at the entrance to Smolny.

Soldiers at a Maxim machine gun on a deck mount at the entrance to Smolny.

Detachments of Red Guards and revolutionary sailors march along the streets of Gatchina.

A company of soldiers climbs the steps of Smolny, goes inside, soldiers in the courtyard of Smolny.

Units of Red Guards in the vicinity of Gatchina.

View of a part of the cruiser Aurora.

Fragments of a cast-iron fence, piles of construction waste on the corner of the Winter Palace building (panorama).

Text of the decree on the formation of the Council of People's Commissars.

Lenin V.I. In his office in the Kremlin during a conversation with the American journalist Lincoln Eyre in February 1920. People's Commissar of Education Lunacharsky AV Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Krylenko NV talking to a military man.

Antonov-Ovseenko VA among military personnel and political workers, Shchadenko EA standing nearby.

First People's Commissar for Naval Affairs Dybenko PE in the courtyard of the Kremlin.

Sverdlov Ya.M. at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater before the start of the meeting of the Fifth Congress of Soviets in July 1918. A woman sticks election leaflets on the wall during preparations for the elections to the Constituent Assembly in November-December 1917. Election posters on the streets of Petrograd, distribution of leaflets.

View of part of the pre-election rally.

Leaflets being thrown from a moving tram, people pick up leaflets.

Residents of Petrograd examine election posters of various parties pasted onto a poster board.

Horse-drawn transport on one of the streets of Petrograd.

Representatives of the Socialist Revolutionary Party conduct election campaigning from the platform of a truck, handing out leaflets.

Demonstrations and meetings in support of the Constituent Assembly.

A column of demonstrators moves.

The text of the decree on the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly.

Red Guards light a cigarette, standing by a cannon installed near the Tauride Palace building after the dispersal of the Constituent Assembly.

Residents of Petrograd who came to the Tauride Palace the morning after the dispersal of the Constituent Assembly.

A Red Guard patrol at the entrance to the Tauride Palace.