The Russian economy at the beginning of the 20th century (1905-1912)

Oil production in the Baku oil fields (alternating newsreel footage and photographs).

Panorama and views of Moscow industrial enterprises in the 1910s.

Ivanovo-Voznesensk on the map.

Photograph of Ivanovo weavers at work.

A weaver at one of the textile factories.

Weavers at work, manual production processes.

Photograph of the entrepreneur and founder of the plant in St.

Petersburg, N.I. Putilov.

Panorama of a workshop for the manufacture of barrels for heavy artillery guns.

Photographs of workers in the workshops of the Putilov factories.

Donbass miners going to their shift, entering the cage.

Lowering the cage into the mine.

Miners go along the drift into the face.

Photograph of miners using a hand pick.

Miners work in the face, extracting coal by hand.

Miners chip away at seams of coal using a chisel and sledgehammer.

A sled loaded with coal.

Miners pull and push coal sleds along a drift.

Photo of a miner puller.

Panorama of one of the Baku oil fields of the Nobel Bros. company.

Oil workers turn a hand winch to lift an oil tank upward.

Oil is poured from a raised bucket into a chute.

Baku oil workers at a mechanical cable winch.

The face of one of the oil workers.

Panorama of one of the oil fields.

Drilling rigs in an oil field.

Drillers at work at a well, faces of drillers.

Panorama of one of the oil fields.

Photographs of oil workers' settlements.

Everyday life and apartments of workers in Moscow and St.

Petersburg.

Emperor Nicholas II with his wife and members of his retinue during a ceremonial procession in the Kremlin during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov in 1913. The Grand Dukes and daughters of the emperor pass by.

View of the ceremonial procession.

Governors-general in full dress uniform pass by.

A photograph of a peasant at a plow.

Peasants plowing the land with a plow.

A peasant sows a field by hand, a horse pulls a harrow.

A disabled peasant with a prosthetic leg sows a field.

A large landowner and his wife descend the steps of their own estate.

View of a rural church.

Photograph of a horse-drawn reaper.

The landowner and his wife are drinking tea in the fresh air, sitting at a table in wicker chairs.

Peasant women in the field tying sheaves.

Threshing on a threshing floor with hand flails.

Winnowing grain on a threshing floor.

A peasant harvesting with a sickle in a drought year.

Threshing grain from ears of corn in a lean year.

A starving horse on supporting ropes.

A peasant cuts chaff from straw and feeds the horse with the chaff.

Panorama of an uncultivated field.

A peasant plowing the land with a plow.

A peasant repairing a plow in a field.

A panorama of a village street, huts with thatched roofs, women drawing water from a well.

Photographs of large peasant families.

Peasants doing their chores.

Photographs of sick peasants lying on benches and straw, and village houses with thatched roofs.