Revolutionary demonstrations in Petrograd and Moscow (1917)

Soldiers of a Guards regiment march along the Neva embankment during demonstrations in Petrograd in the spring of 1917, followed by a brass band and soldiers carrying banners with slogans.

A cavalry unit of the Petrograd garrison passes through a city street.

Cars carrying participants in the May Day demonstration of 1917 pass through a Petrograd street.

A banner with a slogan demanding improvement in the material situation of soldiers and their families is leaning against the wall of a building.

Cars carrying participants in the May Day demonstration pass under the side arch of the Kazan Cathedral onto the embankment of the Catherine Canal.

Panorama of the building and colonnade of the Kazan Cathedral, panorama of the demonstration column moving along Nevsky Prospekt.

View of the stopped demonstration column, panorama of the Singer House and the dome over the entrance (from bottom to top).

The May Day demonstration columns move along Nevsky Prospect, people on Nevsky Prospect.

Panorama of a section of Nevsky Prospect during the demonstration.

Views of Nevsky Prospect during the May Day events of 1917. Trucks with soldiers ride at the head of one of the demonstration columns.

One of the military units of the Petrograd garrison, with a cordon and a brass band, moves along Nevsky Prospect; a panorama of the avenue from a perspective.

Views of Nevsky Prospect during the May Day demonstration, units of the Petrograd garrison pass by.

Demonstrators in columns walk along Nevsky Prospect, carrying banners with slogans.

Soldiers of artillery and automobile units at the May Day demonstration.

A column of representatives of the Socialist Revolutionary Party passes along Nevsky Prospect.

Views of the demonstration.

Soldiers of one of the units of the Petrograd garrison walk with rifles over their shoulders.

Banners with slogans hang above the columns of demonstrators.

A soldier's rally at the Moscow City Duma, March 1-3, 1917. Detained police officers march under escort of revolutionary soldiers to the Duma building.

Food and sacks of flour, found at a police station, are loaded onto a cart.

Soldiers unload sacks of flour delivered to the City Duma from a truck.

A demonstration in Moscow, with armed soldiers leading arrested police officers and officials in one of the columns.

People on the streets adjacent to Red Square before the start of the military parade on March 4, 1917 (panorama).

Muscovites greet troops marching to the parade on Red Square.

People on Nikolskaya Street.

Spectators positioned at the Execution Ground (panorama).

Panorama of a section of Red Square with troops assembled for the parade.

Troops of the Moscow Garrison line up on Red Square before the start of the parade.

Troops on Red Square in parade formation (panorama).