Moscow in the first year of the revolution (1917-1918)

The facade of the National Hotel, a tram passes by.

A truck with soldiers and Red Guards drives along a Moscow street in March 1917. A car in front of the side entrance to the Bolshoi Theater for the meeting of the 4th Congress of Soviets of Workers, Soldiers, Peasants and Cossack Deputies in March 1918. Bonch-Bruevich V.D. comes out of the door.

Delegates' cars on Petrovka near the Bolshoi Theater.

Delegates get out of the car.

Kollontai A.M. with a sailor at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater from Petrovka.

Kollontai enters through the glass doors into the vestibule.

Congress delegates at the glass doors inside the vestibule.

Demonstration on Petrovka in support of the revolutionary war in front of the Bolshoi Theater.

Coat of arms of the German Empire.

View of one of the streets of Moscow in 1918 (above).

Passers-by and horse-drawn transport on the streets of Moscow.

Night streets of Moscow illuminated by a searchlight.

Checking the list of weapons issued.

Issuing weapons to fighters of a flying detachment.

Detachment fighters boarding a truck.

A mounted detachment driving along one of the streets of Moscow.

The crew of the armored car takes its places in the car, the armored car moves off.

Trucks with Cheka detachments are sent to detain and evict anarchists from Moscow mansions in April 1918. The wall of one of the Moscow mansions damaged as a result of clashes with anarchists.

A machine-gun crew, having taken up a position on the sidewalk, is firing at anarchists.

Fighting on the streets of Moscow in April 1918, glass broken by bullets.

The barrel of a machine gun firing.

The wall of one of the mansions, riddled with bullets.

A machine gun in the window of one of the houses.

The corpses of anarchists.

Providing first aid to a wounded man lying on the pavement.

A wounded Cheka fighter has his head bandaged.

Fighters from one of the Cheka detachments at the entrance to an occupied private residence.

Captured anarchists are brought out to the square for roll call.

Members of anarchist organizations detained during the fighting.

Fighters from the Cheka detachment carry ammunition out of a private residence cleared of anarchists.

A search of captured anarchists.

Views of Moscow streets and houses after the fighting with the anarchists.

A tram passes, a janitor sweeps the pavement.

The reflection of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the water.

Doves on the pavement.

Workers break the foundation of the monument.

Dismantling the monument to Alexander II in the Kremlin on April 12, 1918.