RSFSR in the first year of Soviet power (1917)

Cameramen stand in a row (panorama).

Demonstration in honor of the first anniversary of the October Revolution, a column of children passes.

Residents of Petrograd, soldiers at one of the entrances to the Winter Palace the day after its capture.

Damage to the cast-iron grating from shell fragments.

View of part of the wall of the Winter Palace with a balcony, glass is broken in some windows.

Panorama of part of the building of the Winter Palace and Palace Square, people on the square, a barricade of firewood near the palace building.

The building of the Metropol Hotel in Moscow, damaged during the October battles of 1917. A patrol of naval sailors on one of the streets of Petrograd.

View of the building of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR in November 1917 in Petrograd.

German soldiers meet the delegation of the RSFSR at the station in Brest in December 1917, Kamenev L.B., Ioffe A.A. get out of the carriage.

Radek K.B. stands by the car in Moscow, lights a pipe.

Members of the delegation of the RSFSR Bitsenko A.A. and Karakhan L.M. by the train carriage.

Kamenev, Ioffe and Karakhan greet the German soldiers.

People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR Trotsky L.D. gets out of the carriage, the German soldiers greet him.

Ioffe and Kamenev go to the White Palace for negotiations.

Kamenev L.B. and members of the Soviet delegation during the negotiations in Brest in December 1917. Map of the European part of the RSFSR in the ring of fronts in 1918. Views and panoramas of the Moscow Kremlin in 1917-1918. Checking passes at the entrance to the Kremlin in March 1918. The crossing of the Red Army cavalry unit across the river on a wooden bridge built by sappers.

Frunze M.V. during a meeting at the station.

An artillery piece of the Red Army, mounted on a railway platform, opens fire.

A shell exploding.

Attacking carts.

An artillery piece mounted on a railway platform opens fire.

Cavalry attacking the enemy (panorama), shell exploding.

A deck gun opens fire at targets on the shore.

Loading stretchers with the wounded onto boats moored at the shore.

Participants of the rally hold a banner with a slogan in support of the Red Terror in Petrograd in 1918. People stand by the stage car of the propaganda train and watch a performance, panorama of part of the propaganda train.

People by the propaganda train during the distribution of leaflets and posters.

Slogan on the wall of a mobile cinema car.

The projectionist rolls the film onto a reel before the start of the film show.

Installation of the screen.

Red Army soldiers by the film projector.

Installation of the screen in front of the building of the Orthodox church.

A projectionist and Red Army soldiers at a film projector before a show.

Installing a movie screen on the square in front of an Orthodox church.

A version of the coat of arms of the RSFSR on a banner above the entrance to the courtyard of the building.

Panorama of part of the rally in Petrograd in honor of the first anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 1918. A Red Army unit marches along Palace Square during a military parade.

Types of a festive rally posters and banners with slogans in the hands of rally participants.

Children and Red Army soldiers at a festive demonstration, banners with slogans above columns of demonstrators.

Red Army soldiers ride on the roofs of carriages and railway platforms.

The arrival of a train at the station, bagmen sit on the roofs of carriages.

One of the first cavalry units of the Red Army on the street of one of the populated areas.

A poster calling for joining the ranks of the Red Army.

Training of the Red Army recruits in actions in the rifle chain.

Training in rifle aiming, drill techniques with weapons.

Photograph of marching Red Army soldiers wearing peasant bast shoes.

Taking the military oath, faces of the soldiers standing in formation.

One of the units of the Red Army during the pronouncement of the Solemn Pledge of a Red Army Soldier.

Parade on Red Square on May 1, 1918. Map of the RSFSR in 1918, with the designation of territories occupied by the White armies and interventionists (animation).

Units of the Red Army march along Theater Square.

Units of the Red Army during parades and reviews.

Attack of the Red cavalry.

Views of Red Army rallies.

Panorama of one of the burnt quarters of Yaroslavl in July 1918. Units of the Red Army on the streets of the city.

Artillery park, taken by the Red Army as a trophy from the rebels (panorama).

People who lost their homes as a result of fires in Yaroslavl sit near temporary makeshift shelters and tents (panorama).

Panorama of the barracks yard, firewood being loaded onto carts.

A convoy with things and property of the Soviet government on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin, during the government's move to Moscow in March 1918. Artillery carts in the Kremlin courtyard.

View of one of the palaces in Petrograd.

Text of the decree "On the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly".

Armed Red Guards at the entrance to the Tauride Palace after the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918. Military operations on the fronts of the Civil War.

The entry of Red Army units into one of the cities.

A blown up railway bridge in Transcaucasia.

Photograph of a sentry on the bridge.

View of part of a city block (top).