The first year of the revolution (1917-1918)

A truck with a banner in the form of a five-pointed star and Red Army soldiers in the back on Palace Square on November 7, 1918. A column of demonstrations on Nevsky Prospekt on the day of the first anniversary of the October Revolution.

A report in the Rabochaya Kommuna newspaper about preparations for the premiere of the documentary film "Anniversary of the Revolution".

Photo by film director Dziga Vertov.

Units of cadets in formation on Palace Square in October 1917 (panorama).

The cadets building a barricade of firewood in front of the Winter Palace.

Pickets of cadets along the perimeter of Palace Square.

Soldiers at a deck machine gun on the way to Smolny.

Soldiers on the steps of Smolny.

Soldiers and Red Guards guarding the entrance to Smolny, at a machine gun.

A machine gun on an artillery carriage.

Soldiers with rifles over their shoulders climb the steps to the entrance to Smolny.

Lunacharsky A.V. in the October days of 1917. Kollontai A.M. is preparing to report.

A detachment of sailors and Red Guards marches along one of the streets of Gatchina.

Members of the Military Revolutionary Staff in Gatchina (panorama).

Chief of Staff Dybenko P.E., appointed commander of the naval forces among the members of the staff.

A detachment of Red Guards marches along one of the streets of Gatchina.

An artillery crew rolls out a gun for direct fire during the battles to suppress the Kerensky-Krasnov mutiny.

Views of the funeral procession during the funeral of the victims of the October Revolution in Petrograd in early November 1917. Photograph of Dziga Vertov sitting at the table.

Autograph of the memoirs of D. Vertov.

Portrait of the writer and journalist Koltsov M.E., the mandate issued to Koltsov by Lunacharsky.

Typewritten sheet with Koltsov's service record for the period from 1917 to 1921. Joint rally of Russian and German soldiers at the front during the peace negotiations in Brest in 1918. Fraternization of Russian and German soldiers.