From the history of Russian-German relations (1913-1941)

The tower at the Tempelhof airfield in Berlin in 1930. A red flag flies from the flagpole.

The USSR Plenipotentiary Representative to Germany, N.N. Krestinsky, and his entourage greet the Soviet aircraft "Wings of the Soviets" at the airfield in Berlin.

Krestinsky's face.

The plane lands.

The plane finishes taxiing.

Pilot M.M. Gromov exits the plane and greets Soviet diplomats.

The plane at the airfield after landing.

The propeller of one of the engines.

An inscription on the corrugated side of the plane.

Those greeting the plane's crew, raising glasses of champagne. M.M. Gromov drinks champagne next to the plane.

A Soviet plane at the Tempelhof airfield.

A column of patriotic demonstrations passes onto Palace Square through the arch of the General Staff Building in Petrograd on July 22, 1914. Demonstration on the square in front of the Winter Palace.

The entrance to the embassy building in Berlin in 1922, a panorama of the entrance terrace.

Embassy employee Ackerman comes out onto the porch.

Ackerman and embassy secretary Yakubovich at the entrance to the embassy.

Ambassador Ioffe's personal secretary at the entrance to the embassy.

Lunacharsky at a meeting of delegates to the Comintern Congress in Moscow.

A parade of Russian troops in Krasnoye Selo in 1913, with government officials among the guests.

Troops pass in front of the emperor.

The honor guard of the Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment during a meeting with Emperor Nicholas II at the Gatchina train station.

Participants in the German-Soviet conference to draft the 1925 trade agreement enter the conference room.

The conference participants greet each other, among them is Ya.S. Ganetsky.

The face of the head of the German delegation, von Kerner.

Ya.S. Ganetsky smokes a cigarette.

Conference participants at the negotiating table.

Von Kerner and Ganetsky shake hands and begin discussing issues.

Litvinov M.M. speaks at a rally on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument to Vorovsky in Moscow in 1924. Speech by People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR G.V. Chicherin.

Radek K.B. speaks from the rostrum.

Speech by Krasin L.B., with Litvinov standing nearby.

Signing of the protocol on the extension of the Belinsky Treaty of 1926 between the USSR and Germany at the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1931. Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR N.N. Krestinsky during the signing of the protocol.

Wax seal under the text of the agreement.

German Ambassador von Dirksen puts his signature under the text of the protocol.

Fragment of the text of the protocol.

Applying a wax seal to one of the copies of the protocol.

Seal under the text of the copy of the protocol in German.

Von Dirksen and Krestinsky talk after signing the protocol.

Speech by Trotsky L.D. On Red Square in front of the Red Army soldiers in 1924-1925. Tukhachevsky M.N. speaks from the rostrum on Red Square.

Red Army soldiers in formation.

Blucher V.K. surrounded by people.

Blucher chairs a meeting of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Special Far Eastern Army in 1929 in Khabarovsk.

Litvinov's face during a conversation with Komsomol members in the early 1930s.

German ambassador von Dirksen gets out of a car that has pulled up to the Council of People's Commissars building in 1928. Von Dirksen greets Soviet diplomats.

Von Dirksen's letter of credentials.

Kalinin M.I. von Dirksen, Karakhan L.M. after von Dirksen presented his credentials.

Faces of von Dirksen and Litvinov M.M. Litvinov, von Dirksen, Kalinin and Karakhan after the presentation of their credentials.

Nicholas II and his children visiting a Russian church in Hamburg in 1910. Hindenburg, elected President of Germany in 1925, exits the building and gets into a car.

A demonstration of supporters of the Communist Party of Germany in 1925-1926. Participants carry red banners.

A speaker delivers a speech at a rally of German communists in Berlin.

A view of part of the rally.

German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop is greeted at Moscow Central Airport on August 23, 1939. Ribbentrop descends the plane.

Ribbentrop greets Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Potemkin.

Ribbentrop, Potemkin, and their entourage walk across the airfield to their cars.

The cars leave the airfield.

A train arrives at the Moscow station in November 1940. V.M. Molotov exits the carriage at the end of his visit to Berlin, greeting diplomats.

German diplomats and the military attaché greet Molotov at the station; Molotov greets Mikoyan and Kaganovich.

Molotov, S.K. Timoshenko, and their entourage walk along the platform; an honor guard company forms a line.

Street views of Genoa in April 1922. Italian journalists at work.

Canadian Senator Dandurand arriving at the Genoa Conference.

Faces of the assembly participants.

Anti-communist demonstration in Berlin in the early 1920s.

Street views of Genoa.

Faces of participants in the Genoa Peace Conference in 1922. German Foreign Minister Rathenau arriving at the conference.

Rathenau with a member of the German delegation.

Faces of the German delegates.

Conference participants walking to the meeting. L.B. Krasin and Vorovsky on a park path during a break in the conference sessions, M.M. Litvinov approaches them.

Seals and signatures affixed to the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. French Prime Minister Clemenceau among diplomats and their wives after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

German Foreign Minister G. Stresemann among diplomats.

Clemenceau and US President Wilson at the Palace of Versailles.

Hindenburg, elected President of Germany in 1925, exits the building and gets into a car.

Field kitchens on the streets of Berlin in the early 1920s.

Berliners gather for a rally.

A train arrives at the Berlin station. V.M. Molotov is greeted at the Berlin station on November 12, 1940. Ribbentrop greets Molotov.

Participants in the ceremonial welcome greet Molotov.

Molotov, Ribbentrop, and their entourage walk along the platform toward the exit into the city.

Molotov, Ribbentrop, and their entourage exit the station building.

Molotov walks along the line of the honor guard.

Molotov's arrival at the Reich Chancellery: cars drive up to the main entrance.

Ribbentrop greets Molotov before the conversation.

Molotov and Ribbentrop during the conversation.

The honor guard company at the entrance to the Reich Chancellery, a car pulls up to the entrance.

Molotov gets out of the car and enters the building.

Conversation between Molotov and Hitler.

Ribbentrop and Molotov during a ceremonial reception.

Molotov signs the text of the treaty on the state border between the USSR and Germany in the Kremlin on January 10, 1941. German Ambassador to the USSR von Schulenburg signs the text of the treaty.

Applying a wax seal to the text of the treaty.

Signatures and seals under the text of the treaty.

Von Schulenburg and Molotov in the Kremlin before signing the Soviet-German agreement on the settlement of mutual property claims in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on January 10, 1941. Signing of the agreement by A. Ya.

Vyshinsky.

Von Schulenburg's face.

German Foreign Ministry Envoy Schnurre signs the text of the agreement.

Applying the seal to the text of the agreement. A. I. Mikoyan and Schnurre sign the text of the expanded Soviet-German economic agreement.

Seals are placed under the text of the agreement.