



A ceremonial formation of one of the regiments of the Russian army in honor of the February Revolution.
Soldiers and officers salute the revolutionary banner with the slogan presented to the regiment; a panorama of the formation.
Soldiers wave their hats and wave to their comrade.
An officer walks along a trench, receiving a report.
Russian infantry rushes to the attack.
Shock troops of the female battalion march in parade formation before M.L. Bochkareva and E.D. Kuskova in the summer of 1917. Kuskova and Bochkareva.
Formation of cadets on Palace Square in front of the Winter Palace in October 1917 (panorama).
Construction of a barricade of firewood in front of the Winter Palace.
Cadets at their posts near a pile of firewood at the edge of Palace Square; a panorama of people gathered in a corner of the square.
Demonstrations in Petrograd in the spring of 1917.
Maria Leontyevna Bochkareva - female officer, commander of the first women's battalion
Ekaterina Dmitrievna Kuskova - political and public figure
March 1917-April 1917, 06.1917, October 1917
Petrograd, Russia
Spring, Summer




A demonstration on Nevsky Prospect in Petrograd in the spring of 1917. The marching columns move along Nevsky Prospect, filled with people, as Petrograd residents greet the demonstrators.
A unit of the Petrograd garrison marches in the marching column, with a brass band leading the way.
Participants in the rally on Palace Square climb the cast-iron gates of the Winter Palace.
A panoramic view of part of the rally.
April 1917
Petrograd
Spring




Trotsky delivers a speech from an open car in 1918. A detachment of Red Guards and revolutionary sailors marches through the streets of Gatchina in October 1917. A peasant plows a field with a plow, a girl runs along the plowed furrows.
A peasant walks behind a plow pulled by two horses.
Trotsky (Bronstein) Lev Davidovich - statesman and political figure
October 1917, 1918
Russia, Leningrad Oblast
Autumn, Winter, Summer




Delegates of the Congress of Officers' Deputies of the Army and Navy at the entrance to the building.
Members of the Soldiers' Council with a veteran of the revolutionary movement.
Soldiers' deputies of the Petrograd Soviet at the entrance to the building (panorama).
05.1917-06.1917
Petrograd
Spring, Summer




Emperor Nicholas II inspects the honor guard on the platform, asks questions of the soldiers, and speaks with one of them.
Nicholas II and his wife on the balcony of the Winter Palace during a patriotic demonstration in Palace Square on July 20, 1914 (old style).
Photograph of the patriotic demonstration.
Nicholas II (Romanov Nikolai Alexandrovich) - Russian Emperor
July 20, 1914, 1914
Russia, Petrograd
Summer




Vice-Admiral A.V. Kolchak on the deck of a warship in July 1916. General L.G. Kornilov among officers before the Democratic Conference in Moscow on August 12, 1917. Kornilov and the military accompanying him enter the doors of the Bolshoi Theater.
Military operations on the fronts of World War I. Pages of the Izvestia newspaper for 1917. V.M. Purishkevich gets into a cab after leaving the Tauride Palace.
Photo portrait of Purishkevich.
Armed soldiers in trucks on the streets of Petrograd in the first days of the February Revolution.
Photograph of revolutionary sailors.
Rescue of ammunition boxes from a fire in the summer of 1918, loading boxes onto carts, evacuation of carts with boxes from the danger zone.
Photograph of F.E. Dzerzhinsky at his desk in his office.
Kolchak Alexander Vasilyevich - naval, statesman and political figure, polar explorer
Lavr Georgievich Kornilov - military leader
Purishkevich Vladimir Mitrofanovich - statesman and political figure
July 1916, August 12, 1917, 1918
Petrograd, Moscow, Russia
Spring, Summer