Events of the February Revolution and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1920)

Political prisoners released from Kresty Prison in Petrograd are released in early March 1917. Participants in a rally near the prison wave their hats.

Texts of V.I. Lenin's works on the February Revolution, published in newspapers.

Photograph of Lenin.

Rallies in Petrograd and Moscow in early March 1917. Text of a leaflet issued by the Moscow Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP. Demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd, banners with slogans above columns of demonstrators.

Demonstration in Moscow in front of the monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Columns of demonstrators move toward the Moscow City Duma.

A cavalry squadron rides past a column of demonstrators.

Rallies in Moscow and Petrograd.

Lilliputians from the Durov Circus portray Protopopov and Rasputin during a rally near the Moscow City Duma, with Vladimir Durov standing nearby.

Performers from Durov's Circus at a rally, with an elephant carrying a banner on its back.

Revolutionary soldiers escort arrested police officers to the Moscow City Duma.

Faces of arrested police officers.

Sacks of flour being loaded onto a sled.

Students who have enlisted in the police stand with rifles at the gates of the 1st Prechistensky Precinct.

Changing of guards at the entrance to the precinct.

Revolutionary soldiers cordon off the approaches to Butyrka Prison.

Revolutionary demonstration on Red Square.

Columns of soldiers marching in a demonstration.

Panorama of a soldiers' rally near the front lines.

Soldiers with a banner in support of a democratic republic.

View of the Admiralty building in Petrograd.

The funeral procession moves through Petrograd to the Field of Mars on the day of the funeral of the victims of the February Revolution, March 23, 1917. A banner with a slogan on the Field of Mars.

One of the coffins is lowered into a mass grave.

Coffins in a mass grave (panorama).

The funeral procession moves to the Field of Mars.

Officers of the Entente armies are met by representatives of the Russian army command.

Commander of the Petrograd garrison, General L.G. Kornilov, on horseback during the May Day parade of 1917 on Palace Square.

Cadets march in parade formation across Palace Square.

General M.V. Alekseyev among the staff officers.

Cavalry at the May Day parade on Palace Square.

Colonel A.E. Gruzinov, sitting in the saddle, reviews the parade of troops of the Moscow garrison on Red Square on March 4, 1917. The propaganda ship "Red Star" on the Volga in July 1919. Krupskaya N.K. writes the text of a speech, sitting at a table on the deck of the propaganda ship.

People are walking onto the propaganda ship.

Krupskaya speaks with local residents aboard the propaganda steamship "Red Star." People are walking onto the propaganda steamship. N.K. Krupskaya is on the shore among rally participants.

Photograph of Rosa Luxemburg speaking at the rally.

Red Army units entering Kyiv in January 1919. N.A. Skrypnik and A.S. Bubnov are on the podium at a rally in Kyiv.

View of part of the rally.