May 1, 1918 in Petrograd (1918)

Participants of the May Day demonstration in Petrograd in 1918 on Nevsky Prospect, a column of children, a military brass band, a rifle company with rifles on their shoulders, demonstrators carrying a banner with a placard.

A Red Army unit with a brass band at the head marches along Nevsky Prospekt on May 1, 1918, followed by a column of demonstrators with a banner.

The May Day demonstration moves across the Anichkov Bridge.

A column of the Petrogradsky District with a brass band enters the bridge.

A Red Army unit with banners moves across the Anichkov Bridge.

An agitation truck decorated with banners with slogans passes by, with demonstrators sitting in the back.

A Red Army unit passes.

The demonstration column passes along the edge of the Field of Mars.

The movement of demonstration columns past the entrance to the Summer Garden.

Panorama of part of Palace Square during the May Day rally.

Adults and children, participants in the May Day celebrations, stand at the entrance decorated with posters and slogans (panorama).

Panorama of a banner decorated with fir branches with a banner.

A column of representatives of City Hospital No. 5 marches along Nevsky Prospect.

A demonstration on Nevsky Prospect, banners with placards and slogans above the columns of demonstrators.

A view of the Lassalle House (former City Duma) on Nevsky Prospect decorated with placards for May 1st.

Columns of representatives of Petrograd districts and Red Army units march along the city streets, past the university building, banners with slogans above the columns of demonstrators.

An agitation truck decorated with placards leads one of the demonstration columns.

A placard on the facade of the Winter Palace, above the central gate, a panorama of part of Palace Square on May 1st, 1918. Posters on the wall of one of the General Staff buildings.

Participants in the May Day demonstration and residents of Petrograd on one of the squares waiting for the movement to begin (panorama).

A military brass band at the head of a column of the Light Artillery Brigade plays in anticipation of the movement to begin, a panorama of part of Nevsky Prospect.

Participants in the May Day celebrations in Petrograd on Nevsky Prospect.

The demonstration moves along the streets of Petrograd.

Demonstrators holding slogans on one of the streets of Petrograd, a panorama of the Alexandrinsky Theatre building.

Red Army soldiers and sisters of mercy in formation on one of the streets of Petrograd.

Posters on the wall of one of the buildings.

A Red Army unit before moving on one of the outskirts of Petrograd.

A panorama of the Stock Exchange building on Vasilievsky Island, decorated for May Day.