Events of the Revolution and Civil War in Russia (1917-1919)

The entry of the Red Army into Kyiv in January 1919. A unit of the Red Army horse artillery in Kyiv.

Explosion of a fuel depot.

The destroyed Poilinsky Bridge on the border of Georgia and Azerbaijan.

A sentry at the entrance to the bridge.

The text of the published letter from the bridge builders to V.I. Lenin.

Printing machines in action.

Issues of the Izvestia newspaper for December 1917. Texts of publications and reports on the exposure of counterrevolutionary conspiracies, on the fight against sabotage, on the work of the commission in the Purishkevich case.

A speaker speaking at a rally.

Fragments of a map of St.

Petersburg, pencil marks on the map.

Photographs of Red Guards on the streets of revolutionary Petrograd.

A signal searchlight with the inscription on the shield: "God and the Ataman are with us!" Anarchist sailors (freeze frame).

A panorama of the police station building in Petrograd that burned down during the February Revolution, with passers-by on the street.