Russia at the beginning of the 20th century (1904-1914)

Fishermen haul their net onto the shore.

A horse circles an oil well.

Oil pouring from a trough.

Field oil production (top).

Oil workers under streams of oil.

A photograph of dock workers resting on bales.

Nicholas II accepts bread and salt from merchants during one of his trips.

A summer rural landscape (panorama).

A peasant plows the land, a landowner measures the depth of a furrow.

Threshing grain with hand flails on a threshing floor, a child in a hanging cradle in a field.

A photograph of sick peasants lying in a hut.

Peasants leaving the village, going to work in the city.

A photograph of peasants standing at the office of the volost elder.

Photographs of Russian peasants.

The alarm bell rings.

Burning landowners' estates (staged).

A photograph of soldiers reprisals against peasants.

Photographs of workers' May Day protests and rallies.

Photographs of Interior Minister Plehve and War Minister General Kuropatkin.

Combat operations on the fronts of the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Russian field artillery fires.

Mobilized soldiers say goodbye to their families in August 1914. A photograph of a troop train departing for the Far East.