Russia during the Revolution and Civil War (1917-1922)

A panorama of a building destroyed by artillery during the fighting in Moscow in November 1917. Signs on a wall of a building riddled with bullets and shrapnel (panorama).

Part of the damaged building of the Metropol Hotel.

Panorama of an apartment building destroyed by artillery.

People on the streets of Moscow near destroyed buildings.

A corner of the Metropol Hotel, destroyed by artillery shells.

The delegation of the RSFSR, which arrived in Brest for peace negotiations in November 1917, is met by German representatives.

Kamenev L.B., Ioffe A.A., are exiting the train car.

Radek K.B. is by the car.

Bitsenko, a member of the RSFSR delegation, is by the train car.

Trotsky L.D., having exited the train car, greets the German representatives.

Trotsky leaves the doors of the White Palace in the Brest Fortress.

Members of the Soviet delegation walk to the White Palace before the start of the next round of negotiations.

Demonstration in Berlin in November 1918. Panorama of the rally in front of the Reichstag.

Corpses of German workers killed in clashes with the Freikorps in March 1919. Emperor Wilhelm II and his entourage.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff over a map of military operations. L. B. Kamenev among the participants of the meeting in the Kremlin. V. I. Lenin on a walk in the Kremlin courtyard after recovering from a wound on October 16, 1918. German troops on a street in Kyiv in 1918. Views of the Moscow Kremlin.

A guard checks a pass at the entrance to the Kremlin grounds.

Emperor Nicholas II and members of his family among the officers of His Majesty's Own Convoy.

Photograph of the Ipatiev House.

Photograph of the wall of the basement where the royal family was shot.

Speech by L. D. Trotsky to the Red Army soldiers during a trip to the Eastern Front in 1918. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic I. I. Vatsetis.

Discusses operational matters with headquarters staff.

Vatsetis at the headquarters carriage.

General A. A. Brusilov over a map of military operations.

Trotsky and Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army S. S. Kamenev during May Day celebrations on Red Square in 1922-1923. Lenin V. I., Kamenev L. B., Zinoviev G. E. during the funeral of revolutionaries on Red Square in 1919-1920. Dzerzhinsky F. E. in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in January 1924. Parades and rallies of the Red Army.

Trotsky and Vatsetis at the headquarters carriage.

Trotsky reviews the parade of troops on the Eastern Front.

Kamenev L. B., Bukharin N. I., Sokolnikov G. Ya. at the presidium table in the Kremlin.

Kamenev L. B. reads a newspaper, smokes a cigarette.

Milyukov P.N. among the members of the Provisional Government.

Kerensky A.F. stands at the entrance to the building.

Clemenceau J. converses with French military personnel.

Supreme Ruler Admiral Kolchak A.V. among officers during a tour of the front in 1919. A woodpile on the deck of a ship.

Kolchak inspects a deck gun.

Kolchak inspects the formation of the crew of a river gunboat, greeting the officers.

Kolchak walks along the formation of one of the Cossack units.

Kolchak talks with local residents - representatives of the indigenous peoples, accepts a live goose as a gift.

A ceremonial prayer service in Omsk in 1919. British Prime Minister Lloyd George D., Italian Prime Minister Orlando Vincent, French Prime Minister Clemenceau J., and US President Wilson leave the Palace of Versailles after the conclusion of the peace conference, talk, and go inside the building.