Petrograd in the spring and autumn of 1917 (1917)

Demonstration on Nevsky Prospect in April 1917. People on Palace Square in the October days of 1917, barricades made of firewood in front of the Winter Palace (panorama).

People at one of the entrances to the Winter Palace.

Red Guards and soldiers at armored cars.

The armored car "Lieutenant Schmidt" in the courtyard of Smolny, after the end of the battles with the cadets, a Red Guard at his post at the armored car.

Pilot Lokaichuk receives reports for transmission to the Military Revolutionary Committee.

Panorama of one of the streets of Petrograd, street trading from stalls.

Distribution of newspapers and leaflets.

Passers-by and street vendors on one of the streets of Petrograd (panorama).

Panorama of Znamenskaya Square with the monument to Alexander III (top).

Residents of Petrograd at the editorial office of the newspaper "New Time" in July 1917. Units of the 5th Army, which arrived in Petrograd to restore order in July 1917, on Palace Square (panorama), cars on the square.

Demonstration on one of the streets of Petrograd in the summer of 1917. A detachment of Red Guards and sailors marches along the streets of Gatchina in October 1917. A tram with artillery pieces on a platform passes by.

A truck with movie cameras installed in the back during a rally.

An orator from the RSDLP speaks at a May Day rally in Petrograd, the truck starts moving.

View of part of the rally, a representative of the editorial board of the newspaper "Pravda" speaks.

Participants in the rally hold banners with slogans, views of the rally.

Soldiers, officers, students elected to the Petrograd Soviet, on a city street.

Propaganda trucks with soldiers in the back drive along a street in Petrograd, followed by demonstration columns and units of the Petrograd garrison.

A truck with banners leads one of the demonstration columns on Nevsky Prospect.

Columns of demonstrators move along Nevsky Prospect.

Soldiers carry banners with slogans in support of the Constituent Assembly and the proclamation of the republic.

Columns of armed soldiers move along Nevsky Prospect.

Passes are checked at the entrance to the Tauride Palace.

View of Palace Square, horse-drawn carriages and trucks with participants in the May Day celebrations drive by.

Rally on the Field of Mars against the capitalist ministers and the State Duma in June 1917. Views of rallies and demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd in the summer of 1917. Arrival of demonstration columns on the Field of Mars.

Revolutionary soldier units climb the steps to the entrance to Smolny in October 1917. Deck machine guns at the entrance to Smolny, checking passes, soldiers and Red Guards at the machine guns.

Machine guns on deck pedestals and artillery mounts at the entrance to Smolny.

One of the armed units climbs the steps to the entrance to Smolny, panorama of the adjacent territory.

Units of cadets in formation on Palace Square (panorama).

Building a barricade from firewood.

Cadets in a cordon on Palace Square (panorama).

Units of Red Guards and sailors march along the streets of Gatchina during the suppression of the Kerensky-Krasnov mutiny.

Revolutionary soldiers at armored cars.

Navy sailors with a machine gun at a field kitchen on one of the streets of Petrograd in October 1917.