Newsreel of the revolution and the beginning of the civil war in Russia (1917-1918)

A unit of the Kyiv garrison marches along the street during the celebration of May Day, 1917 (top).

A column moves along one of the streets (top).

A column of fire departments moves along the street (top).

A view of a moving column of demonstrators (top).

A view of a square filled with people, a demonstration column moves (top).

Panorama and views of a part of the avenue during the May Day celebrations.

Views of demonstration columns, demonstrators carry banners.

A panorama of the corner of one of the streets filled with people, a soldier knocks down symbols of the Russian Empire from the facade of a house, people watch him.

A column of soldiers and sailors with an anti-war slogan passes by.

A column of cavalry passes.

A panorama of a part of the square filled with people, a Cossack half-hundred approaches.

Participants in the religious procession carry banners through the crowd.

Panorama of a part of the square during the May Day celebrations.

People on the streets of Petrograd during demonstrations in June 1917. Felix Kon among the participants of the wreath-laying ceremony on the graves of the victims of the revolution.

Types of demonstration.

Soldiers and officers during one of the rallies.

Meeting Plekhanov G.V., getting out of the car after returning to Russia on March 31, 1917. Local disorder on the Neva embankment during one of the demonstrations in June 1917. Sverdlov Ya.M. at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater in July 1918. Demonstrations and rallies on the streets of Petrograd in the summer of 1917. A column of volunteers who joined the shock battalion moves along the street.

A group of generals on a city street.

German troops in Kyiv in June 1918, infantry marching along the street and machine-gun teams driving by.

Views of Kyiv streets in the summer of 1918. Photograph of V.I. Lenin and revolutionaries on a street in Stockholm during their return to Russia in April 1917. Soldiers at the entrance to the building where the revolutionary committee is located.

View of part of the demonstration (top).

Crosses on church domes.

Shooting of a demonstration on Liteiny Prospekt in July 1917 (fragment of the film "October").

Representatives of the workers of the Narva District during one of the anti-government demonstrations in Petrograd in the summer of 1917. A column of demonstrators on one of the streets of Petrograd.

Fragment of the text of the appeal of the RSDLP(b).

The speaker speaks at a soldiers' rally at one of the railway stations near a carriage.

Speech by L.B. Kamenev.

At the May Day rally of 1917 on the Field of Mars in Petrograd.

The 1st Soviet Regiment marches across the square in February-March 1918. Artillery guns take up positions on the square near the Moscow City Duma in March 1917, a panorama of part of the square and the Duma building.

View of part of Red Square, the building of the Kazan Cathedral and the Iversky Gate, a truck drives out onto the square through the gate, people greet the revolutionary soldiers (above).

Artillery guns on the square in front of the Moscow City Duma.

Panorama of part of the rally on Theater Square, faces of the rally participants.

Columns of demonstrators on the streets of Moscow in March 1917. Demonstrations and rallies near the walls of the Kremlin.

Removal of the signboard of suppliers to the Court of His Imperial Majesty from the façade of the building.

Symbols of autocracy knocked down from the walls.

Participants in the rallies wave their hats.

Faces of participants in a soldiers' rally.

A soldier knocks a double-headed eagle off the building's façade with a rifle butt.

Panorama of part of the rally.

Removal of the signboard of suppliers to the Court of His Imperial Majesty from the building's façade.

A working telegraph apparatus.

A telephone receiver.

A view of a part of the Moscow Kremlin.

A view of a street in Moscow.

A panorama of construction.

People on a street in Moscow in March 1917. Unemployed people near the wall of a house.

The text of an announcement about the dismissal of workers.

People walk along the street.

A panorama of a part of the wall of one of the palaces in Petrograd.

The ceremony of presenting new banners to the shock battalion in June 1917. Rodzianko M.V. and Milyukov P.N. among the deputies of the State Duma.

Officers in front of the formation on the territory of one of the units of the Petrograd garrison.

Fragments of the film "October".

Soldiers and Red Guards stand near a truck during a rally in March 1917. Destruction of prison bars.

Workers of the Putilov factory with a congratulatory address to the soldiers of the Pavlovsky regiment.

Soldiers of the Pavlovsky Regiment with a revolutionary banner with a Socialist Revolutionary slogan presented to the regiment.

Armed guard with machine guns on deck mounts on the porch of Smolny in October 1917. Machine gun on a gun carriage at the entrance to Smolny.

View of part of Petrograd and the upper part of the Admiralty building.

Naval battle in the Baltic in 1917. Fragments of the film "October".

View of a part of a soldiers' demonstration in Petrograd in April 1917. Soldiers of the regiments of the Petrograd garrison march along the streets of the city.

Columns of demonstrators on the streets of Petrograd, banners with slogans in the hands of the demonstration participants.

Distribution of newspapers and leaflets.

Views of rallies in Petrograd, faces of the participants in the rallies.

Banners with slogans above the columns of demonstrators.

Agitators on one of the streets of Petrograd.

Panorama of a rally in one of the units of the Petrograd garrison.

General Alekseev M.V. among the officers.

General Kornilov L.G. on horseback accepts the May Day parade of the troops of the Petrograd garrison on Palace Square.

Military parade in Moscow.

Cavaliers of the Order of St.

George with a banner in front of the formation on Red Square.

Officers accepting the military parade.

Distribution of flour from a sleigh.

Soldiers and students who have enlisted in the militia at the gates of the Prechistensky precinct.

Student militiamen take turns at their posts.

Soldiers at the walls of the Butyrka prison.

Trucks with soldiers drive along a street in Petrograd in March 1917. A unit of naval sailors passes along a street in Kronstadt on May 1, 1917. Soldiers and sailors near a festively decorated truck.

View of Anchor Square and the building of the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt during the May Day celebrations.

Plekhanov G.V. stands on a park path in the summer of 1917, a non-commissioned officer passes by.

Faces of the deputies of the Petrograd Soviet.

A demonstration column moves along one of the streets of Petrograd, a panorama of the street.

A demonstration column heads to the Field of Mars.

Panorama of a part of the Field of Mars during the May Day rallies of 1917, a speaker from one of the political parties speaks from the platform of a truck.

Panorama and views of parts of the Field of Mars during the May Day rallies.

Banners with slogans above the heads of the rally participants.

Panorama of a part of the rally in Moscow on the occasion of the beginning of the work of the State Conference in August 1917.

Column of demonstrators on a city street.

Dome of an Orthodox church destroyed by artillery.

Views of the building of the Assembly of Nobility damaged by shelling.

Panorama of part of the destroyed city block.

Meeting Kerensky’s car.

General Brusilov A.A. at a table over a map. in May-July 1917. Milyukov P.N. among participants of a rally in Petrograd in March 1917. Caricatures of Milyukov.

Milyukov at the building of the Tauride Palace.

Participants of the State Conference in Moscow in August 1917 enter the building of the Bolshoi Theater.

Panorama of part of the building of the Bolshoi Theater.

Participants of the State Conference walk through the park near the Bolshoi Theater.

Faces of members of the military revolutionary headquarters in October 1917. Dybenko P.E. discusses a current issue with the military.

Dybenko’s face.

Armored cars at the disposal of the military revolutionary headquarters.

Armored car "Lieutenant Schmidt".

Sailors at a machine gun eat soup from a pot.

Training of Red Guard soldiers.

Panorama of part of the rally on the occasion of the opening of the State Conference in Moscow in August 1917. Participants of the State Conference at the building of the Bolshoi Theater.

Participants of the State Conference climb the steps of the Bolshoi Theater.

Demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd.

Views and panoramas of May Day rallies and columns of demonstrators on the streets of Petrograd.

A demonstration moves past the building of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in April 1917. Participants of the rally gather at the Kshesinskaya Palace in Petrograd in July 1971.