Domestic newsreel (1908-1927)

Production process in a printing house.

Printing portraits of Nicholas II and his wife.

Freshly printed portraits of Father John of Kronstadt.

A church bell prepared to be lifted into the bell tower.

Raising the bell.

Workers move the raised bell along the roof of the church to the bell tower.

The exit of the religious procession from one of the Kremlin cathedrals during the celebrations in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913. Nicholas II with his wife and members of the Retinue of His Imperial Majesty follow behind the representatives of the higher clergy.

A ceremonial procession through the territory of the Kremlin with the participation of Nicholas II, the Empress, members of the Imperial Family and representatives of the higher officials.

Nicholas II and his wife follow the representatives of the clergy, a Cossack of the Life Guard carries the heir in his arms.

The movement of the ceremonial procession with the participation of the Imperial Family through the territory of the Moscow Kremlin.

Members of the Imperial Family walk arm in arm with the Grand Duchesses.

Views of a ceremonial procession, ministers and military personnel in ceremonial uniforms pass by.

People standing by the railway track greet the imperial train leaving the tunnel.

Employees of one of the banks at work.

Unloading gold bars from a cart.

A bank employee opens the doors of the main safe.

Dispersal of a demonstration on the streets of Petrograd on January 9, 1905 (excerpts from the feature film).

Mounted police disperse strikers.

Strike participants resist the police and mounted gendarmes (staged scenes).

Boarding of sailors' mutiny participants sentenced to hard labor in a prison car, a sentry at the entrance to the car.

Armed gendarmes pass.

A sentry on a tower over the mushroom.

Convicted participants in the sailors' mutiny are led under escort along the prison car.

Boarding of the arrested in the car.

A sentry on duty on the deck of a floating prison.

Prisoners behind bars.

Photograph of a peasant family suffering from typhus.

Use of child labor in a glass-blowing factory, children ensure the production process.

Military operations on the fronts of World War I, soldiers rising from a trench to attack.

British infantry attacking the enemy.

Exploding shells.

Torn barbed wire.

View of part of Palace Square filled with people.

Carriage of the hospital train of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna.

Views and panoramas of the demonstration in Petrograd in May 1917. Panorama of part of the rally on the Field of Mars.

A soldier speaking at the rally.

Speakers on the platform.

Participants in the May Day demonstration in the first half of the 1920s carry an agitational coffin with a bottle painted on the lid.

Demonstrators dressed as life-size puppets on a Moscow street.

Demonstrators dressed as devils run around trucks.

A tram of the "Atheist" society, decorated with anti-religious posters, passes by.

Symbolic destruction of a bottle of vodka.

People watch a festive performance performed by artists on a wooden platform decorated with posters.

Fragments of a mystery show.

A girl stands on the shoulders of participants in the May Day demonstration on Red Square.

Panorama of one of the carriages of the propaganda train.

Panorama of an propaganda steamship.

An propaganda tram passes along one of the streets of Moscow.

Marc Chagall's signature on one of the documents.

A boy with a plywood red star in his hand at one of the holidays.

Sketches by Marc Chagall.

Photograph by M. Chagall.

View of part of Tverskaya Street in Moscow in 1913-1914. Views of Moscow streets after the October battles of 1917. Children's faces on the street in the 1920s.

Children enter the open gates.

Photograph of M. Chagall among the teachers and students of the Art School.

Photographs of Vitebsk in the early 20th century.

Panorama of Red Square during the May Day celebrations of 1918. Red Army units march across Red Square.

An armoured car passes, followed by a light tank.

A brass band at the 1918 May Day demonstration in Vitebsk, followed by a Red Army unit.

View of Palace Square in Petrograd during the May Day celebrations (above).

The demonstration column marches across Palace Square in front of the tribune at the foot of the Alexander Column.

Kalinin M.I. on the tribune on Red Square during the parade on November 7, 1923. A column of children passes, children's faces.

Representatives of Moscow districts move past the Manezh building to Red Square during the May Day celebrations of 1922-1923, a model of a hut on a cart in one of the columns of the demonstration.

Panorama of Red Square during the May Day demonstration.

Panorama of the May Day rally, participants in the rally are holding banners with slogans.

Columns of demonstrators with banners in their hands are moving to Red Square.

A column of Moscow pre-conscripts marches along one of the streets of Moscow to the May Day demonstration.

A column of pupils of preschool institutions passes.

The face of a pioneer.

Panorama of a part of a pioneer rally in the mid-1920s.

Everyday life and everyday life of pupils of nurseries.

Kids on a walk.

Schoolchildren watering beds on a school plot.

Panorama of a folk festival in a meadow.

A woman with two girls sit down in chairs for a photo shoot in a photo studio.

A manicurist cuts a client's nails.