Russia after the February Revolution (1917)

Foreign diplomats exit a train carriage.

An American warship, accompanied by tugboats, enters a port in France.

Delegates of the 1st Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies at the table during a meeting in June-July 1917, among them Chkheidze N.S., Dan F. One of the Menshevik leaders Dan F. at the entrance to the building.

Chernov V.M., Chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Avksentyev N.D. among the delegates of the congress.

Plekhanov G.V. stands on the path in the park during a break between sessions of the congress.

Delegates of the congress - leaders of the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries stand at the entrance to the building, among them Chernov, Chkheidze (panorama).

Chkheidze, sitting by the window, gives an interview.

Panorama of barbed wire fences on the front line.

Minister of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Government Tsereteli I.G. stands at the entrance to the building.

Avksentyev among the members of the Petrograd Soviet.

Panorama of the soldiers' rally.

Delegate of the Congress of Soviets B.P. Pozern speaks to the soldiers of the Petrograd garrison.

Meeting A.F. Kerensky on the steps of the Tauride Palace near the car.

Kerensky is accompanied by adjutants.

The ceremony of nailing the flag of one of the shock units formed in the summer of 1917 to the flagpole; officers take turns hammering in nails.

Cadets march in formation along the streets of Petrograd.

Women - fighters of the women's shock battalion in formation on Red Square in the summer of 1917. A kneeling shock worker is sprinkled with holy water.

Presentation of an icon to the battalion personnel.

Panorama of the rally in Petrograd on the occasion of the beginning of the offensive at the front on June 18, 1917. Soldiers with an icon walk along Red Square.

Soldiers of the Russian army during a field prayer service.

Infantry advances to the attack line.

Soldiers on the streets of Petrograd gather for a rally in February 1917. Views of the demonstration on Nevsky Prospect (top).

Rally and demonstration at the Tauride Palace.

View of part of the meeting hall in the Tauride Palace (top).

Delegates from the soldiers' committees in the meeting hall of the Tauride Palace.

Parade of revolutionary troops in early March 1917. Military units that went over to the side of the revolution on the streets of Petrograd.

A column of the Volynsky Regiment passes.

Armored cars and trucks with revolutionary soldiers drive through the streets of Petrograd.

A meeting of the soldiers' section of the Petrograd Soviet.

Chairman of the State Duma M.V. Rodzianko, standing at the entrance to the Tauride Palace, signs a document presented to him.

Soldiers at the entrance to the Tauride Palace.

Nicholas II, sitting in the saddle, talks with a French general.

Soldiers gather for a rally at the entrance to the Tauride Palace.

Panorama of the railway junction.

Breaking down prison bars.

Panorama of the wall of a burnt building.

Soldiers rake a pile of charred documents from the destroyed police archive.

A soldier knocks a double-headed eagle off the facade of a building with the butt of his rifle.

Symbols of autocracy knocked off the walls of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

A red flag flutters.

Trucks with revolutionary soldiers drive along the streets of Petrograd.

Soldiers' rallies and demonstrations in the squares and streets of Petrograd.

Armored cars and trucks with revolutionary soldiers drive along the streets of Petrograd.

Milyukov P.N. among the participants of the rally.

Nicholas II with the heir in front of the Life Guards.

Text of the abdication of Grand Duke Mikhail.

Mikhail gets out of a stopped car.

View of part of Red Square during the February events of 1917. Rallies on the streets of Moscow, leaflets being distributed from the back of a truck.

Freed political prisoners leaving prison.

Freed prisoners and soldiers waving their hats.

An officer delivering a speech to the freed, they begin to rock the officer.

Faces of a soldier greeting the revolution.

Procession to the Field of Mars on the day of the funeral of the victims of the February Revolution, March 23, 1917. Ministers of the Provisional Government on the Field of Mars.

Participants in the funeral procession carry banners with slogans.

View of the mass grave on the Field of Mars.

Participants in the mourning events on the Field of Mars.

Parade of Red Guard units.

Dan F.I. delivering a speech.

Rallies and demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd.

View of a part of Stockholm.

Photograph of V. I. Lenin on a street in Stockholm in a group of revolutionary figures returning to Russia in April 1917. Lenin being met at the Finland Station (fragment of the film "October"), alternates with a photograph.

Old Bolsheviks recall the meeting of Lenin, who arrived in Petrograd.

Painting depicting Lenin delivering a speech from an armored car.

Texts of congratulatory telegrams from local organizations of the RSDLP (b) to Lenin, published in the press.

Soldiers at the entrance to the Tauride Palace.

Soldiers in the meeting hall of the Tauride Palace in March-April 1917. Lenin V. I. during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. A page from the manuscript of Lenin's "April Theses".

Demonstration in Petrograd under the slogan of concluding peace.

May Day rallies in Petrograd in 1917. Columns of the May Day demonstration move through Petrograd.

Columns of demonstrators gather on the Field of Mars.

Demonstrations on Nevsky Prospect in April-May 1917. A column of demonstrators moves out from the Tauride Palace.

The movement of columns of the May Day demonstration along the streets of Petrograd.

Panorama of the rally on the Field of Mars, the next speaker is speaking.

Faces of the rally participants.

Rally participants listen to representatives of the Bolsheviks, Lenin's face during the rally in 1920. Banners with slogans and banners above the heads of the rally participants.

Warships of the Baltic Fleet at anchor.

A column of demonstration passes, the face of P.E. Dybenko.

Text of Milyukov's note in French.

Demonstration and May Day rally on the Field of Mars under the slogan of ending the war.

Milyukov P.N. leaves the building, stands by the door.

A speaker giving a speech at a rally in one of the military units in the spring of 1917. The agenda of the general party conference of the RSDLP(b) on April 22, 1917. A painting depicting Lenin speaking at the conference.

Portraits of Ya. M. Sverdlov, I. V. Stalin, K. E. Voroshilov, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, N. K. Krupskaya, V. V. Kuibyshev, A. S. Bubnov.

A meeting of old Bolsheviks - eyewitnesses of the events and participants of the conference, a participant of the conference gives an interview.

Lenin V. I. during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. A drawing by the artist Vasiliev depicting Lenin giving a speech.

A painting depicting revolutionary events in the countryside in 1917. A rally dedicated to the elections to the Constituent Assembly.

Scattering election leaflets from passing cars.

A truck with agitators drives down the street.

An orator addresses soldiers at one of the election rallies.

Panorama of the rally.

Diagram of the growth of arms production in Russia in 1914-1917. A poster in a shop window calling for subscription to the Freedom Loan.

Panorama of the rally for the Freedom Loan.

Farewell to the women's shock battalion at the front on Red Square in Moscow, shock women in formation before taking the oath.

Presentation of an icon to the battalion personnel.

Drill exercises in the women's shock battalion in Petrograd.

The head of the Petrograd garrison, General Polovtsov P.A., is present at the exercises.

Arrival of the Allied representatives at the front.