Theft of the Future (13 hours of the Constituent Assembly) (1991)

Photo portraits of the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly Viktor Chernov and V.I. Lenin (combined shooting), lines from Chernov's letter to Lenin about the dispersal of the Constituent Assembly on January 5, 1918 are heard in the background.

Panorama of the Tauride Palace.

Newsreel of 1918, alternating with photographs: views of the streets of Petrograd in January 1917. Demonstration in support of the Constituent Assembly, banners with slogans in the hands of the demonstrators.

Passers-by on Nevsky Prospect, a platoon of soldiers with rifles over their shoulders passes.

A detachment of Red Guards and sailors marches along the streets of Gatchina in November 1917. Photographs of Red Guard detachments.

Photograph of M.S. Uritsky at his desk.

Portrait of sailor A. Zheleznyakov, an anarchist communist.

Photograph of Pavel Dybenko.

Portrait of Ya.M. Sverdlov.

Newsreel: demonstration in Petrograd in support of the Constituent Assembly.

People on one of the bridges across the Neva.

Photograph of a machine gunner at the window, watching the street.

Demonstration in support of the Constituent Assembly on one of the squares of Petrograd.

Photograph of revolutionary soldiers.

View of part of the demonstration of supporters of the Constituent Assembly.

Portraits of revolutionary raznochintsy and Narodnaya Volya members.

Photographs of Trotsky and Lenin in makeup.

Newsreel: panorama of part of a Moscow neighborhood during the flood.

Photo portrait of Alexander II. Portraits of revolutionary raznochintsy and Narodnaya Volya terrorists, including D. Karakozov, N.G. Chernyshevsky.

Photographs of warships of the 2nd Pacific Squadron before leaving for the Far East.

Photograph of a hole in the side of a ship made by a Japanese shell.

Photographs of the events of January 9, 1905 in St.

Petersburg, Cossack and police patrols on the streets of the city.

Photographs of the events of the First Russian Revolution, arrested revolutionaries are escorted.

Newsreel from 1917: panorama of the Winter Palace after its capture on November 8, 1917. Photograph of the Tauride Palace building.

Photographs of the deputies of the 1st State Duma arriving for the first session.

Photographs of ceremonial prayers and events with the participation of Nicholas II in the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Photographs of deputies - members of various factions of the 1st State Duma during factional sessions and during breaks.

Photographs of members of the Constitutional Democrats faction headed by P.N. Milyukov.

Faces of members of the Caucasian Social Democrats faction in the photograph.

Photograph of the meeting hall in the Tauride Palace.

Portraits of Prime Minister S.Yu.

Witte and his successor I. Goremykin.

Portrait of P.A. Stolypin, photograph of the Tauride Palace.

Photograph of the meeting hall of the State Duma.

Group and individual photographs of deputies of the State Duma.

Newsreel: views of the State Duma meeting hall.

Photographs of P.A. Stolypin and P.B. Struve.

Photo portrait of V. Maklakov, a deputy from the Cadet faction.

Portrait of Stolypin.

Photographs of the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Stolypin’s dacha on Aptekarsky Island on August 12, 1906. Photograph of Stolypin at his desk.

Photographs of the streets of revolutionary Petrograd in 1917. Photograph of the hanging of a man convicted by a military field court in the frontline zone in 1915-1916. Photograph of the Tauride Palace.

Portrait of Stolypin.

Photographs of State Duma meetings.

Portrait of Stolypin.

Photographs of State Duma deputies.

Photograph of the meeting hall in the Tauride Palace.

Newsreel from the 1910s: a religious procession in one of the provinces of Russia.

Photo portrait of Stolypin.

Photograph of Stolypin in a coffin.

Photograph of a State Duma meeting.

Portrait of Deputy N. Markov the 2nd.

Newsreel: view of one of the streets of St.

Petersburg, passers-by and cabbies on the street, the movement of the religious procession.

Emperor Nicholas II inspects the line of the Cavaliers of St.

George.

The Metropolitan sprinkles holy water on the officers standing in line, followed by Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich.

Physical exercises on the parade ground of one of the Guards regiments.

Nicholas II inspects the sports town of one of the units during physical training classes.

A ceremonial meeting of Nicholas II and his family, presentation of bread and salt to the emperor.

Nicholas II, members of his family and members of his retinue during a trip to the cities of the empire during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov in 1913. Heir Alexei Nikolaevich and members of the imperial family exit the doors of the military hospital and get into a car.

Heir Alexei Nikolaevich plays with a dog in the park of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace.

Nicholas II and his heir attend a ceremonial prayer service in one of the guards units.

Photographs of patriotic demonstrations in Petrograd in August 1914 and Nicholas II on the balcony of the Winter Palace.

Photograph of State Duma deputies, members of the Octobrist faction, led by M.V. Rodzianko, delivering a patriotic speech at the entrance to the Tauride Palace.

Newsreel: servicemen receiving documents in 1917. Panorama of the Tauride Palace hall during a regular session of the State Duma (top).

Soldiers of one of the regiments kiss the banner, approaching it in turn.

The regimental priest walks around the formation of one of the regiments leaving for the front with an icon in his hands in 1914. Prayer service in one of the regiments before being sent to the front.

The Russian army fights on the fronts of World War I. Views and panoramas of the positions of units of the Russian army.

A Cossack regiment marches along a forest road.

A sentry on duty, Minister of War Sukhomlinov with officials of the Ministry of War.

Faces of deputies and officials.

Deputies enter the courtroom from the street during Sukhomlinov's trial.

One of the politicians signs a document.

Photographs of the leaders of the State Duma factions and Prime Minister Goremykin at his desk.

Newsreel from the 1910s: Nicholas II receives reports from officers during an inspection of one of the guards units.

Portrait of Finance Minister V.N. Kokovtsov.

Photographs of Goremykin and ministers.

Newsreel from 1915-1916, interspersed with photographs: deputies enter the entrance of a building.

Members of the Progressive Bloc pass by the Tauride Palace.

Photograph of members of the Progressive Bloc headed by their leader, V.V. Shulgin.

Portraits of political leaders of the Duma factions, including P.N. Milyukov.

Deputies of the State Duma on the porch of the Tauride Palace, among them - M.V. Rodzianko.

Deputies move away from the porch.

Photograph of Foreign Minister Sazonov at the table in his office.

Photograph of Prime Minister Goremykin.

Photographs of soldiers' life and service on the front lines and in the near rear during World War I. Photograph of a meeting of members of the "Progressive Bloc".

Portraits of deputies - members of the "Progressive Bloc".

Newsreel: warships at anchor.

Portrait of Minister of Agriculture Krivosheev.

Photograph of Foreign Minister Sazonov at the table in his office.

Portrait of Prime Minister Goremykin.

Newsreel: a unit of horse artillery of the Russian army at a halt during the spring thaw during World War I. Photographs of P.N. Milyukov, V.M. Purishkevich and other Duma figures.

Photograph of soldiers and officers of the Russian army in gas masks on the front lines.

Photographs of military operations and victims of World War I. Photograph of crosses with wreaths on soldiers' graves.

Photographs by P.N. Milyukov, V.V. Shulgin, M.V. Rodzianko and representatives of the "Progressive Bloc".

Newsreel: movement of a column of Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war.

Soldiers lighting each other's cigarettes.

Eating in the field.

Photographs of queues for food in the rear, on the streets of Moscow and Petrograd.

Photograph of a session of the State Duma.

Photographs of peasant deputies of the State Duma, faces in the photographs.

Newsreel: panorama of the State Duma session hall (from above, from different angles).

Newsreel of 1917: soldiers' demonstration in February 1917. Armed soldiers march in formation along the streets of Petrograd in March 1917. Demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd in March-April 1917. Speakers delivering speeches at rallies in Petrograd.

Panorama of part of the May Day rally on the Field of Mars.

A soldier knocks symbols of autocracy off the façade of a building with a rifle butt.

Removing signs with double-headed eagles from the walls and façades of buildings.

Photograph of a desecrated iconostasis.

Portraits of deputies of the left-wing factions in the State Duma, including portraits of Chkheidze and Kerensky.

Newsreel: demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd in March-April 1917. Panorama and views of the hall of the Tauride Palace during sessions of the State Duma.

Banners with slogans in the hands of participants in one of the soldiers' demonstrations (panorama).

Rallies near the walls of the Tauride Palace in February 1917. Armored cars on the square in front of the Tauride Palace (panorama).

Funeral of the victims of the February Revolution on the Field of Mars on March 23, 1917. Placing coffins in a mass grave.

Funeral demonstration on the Field of Mars.

Coffins are carried on stretchers.

A military brass band plays.

Rodzianko M.V. among the deputies of the State Duma during a funeral meeting.

Deputies of the State Duma among soldiers.

Views of the military parade on Palace Square on May 1, 1917. Units of the Petrograd garrison march along Palace Square.

A meeting in support of the earliest possible convocation of the Constituent Assembly at the Tauride Palace.

Panorama of the square in Petrograd, people on the square.

The face of a revolutionary sailor.

View of part of the meeting (above), a photograph of V.I. Lenin entering the meeting.

Meetings of Petrograd workers, speeches by orators.

The face of Lenin talking to the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. A meeting in the Guards Semyonovsky Regiment, a sailor-propagandist speaking from the platform.

Columns of soldiers at a demonstration in Petrograd in June 1917. View of part of the May Day rally on the Field of Mars.

Faces of revolutionary sailors in the photograph.

Participants in the demonstration in Petrograd before going out onto one of the bridges, interspersed with scenes of the shooting of the July demonstration from the film "October".

People on Theater Square in Moscow on August 12, 1917, before the start of the State Conference (panorama).

Participants of the conference are walking to the first meeting at the Bolshoi Theater.

Participants of the conference are climbing the steps of the Bolshoi Theater.

One of the founders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, E.K. Breshko-Breshkovskaya, gets out of a car.

Faces of participants in the State Conference.

Head of the Provisional Government A.F. Kerensky among the participants of the conference.

Minister of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Government N.D. Avksentyev among the military before the start of the first meeting.

General A.M. Kaledin, ataman of the Terek Cossack Army M.A. Karaulov. talking with Rodzianko M.V. before the start of the meeting.

Participants of the meeting talking on the street.

General Kornilov L.G. stands among the officers at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater, turns and goes inside.

Kerensky arrives at the meeting of the State Conference.

Tram and horse-drawn traffic on the streets of Petrograd.

Minister of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Government Avksentyev N.D. among the military before the start of the first meeting of the State Conference.

Participants of the meeting of the Pre-Parliament before the start of the meeting on September 14, 1917. Participants of the State Conference enter the doors of the main entrance of the Bolshoi Theater, checking passes.

Sverdlov Ya.M. at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater in the summer of 1918. Panorama of the meeting of the Pre-Parliament.

Meeting of the Petrograd Soviet.

Group photographs of Red Guards from various industrial enterprises of Petrograd.

Newsreel: soldiers of the shock battalions of the 5th Army on Palace Square during the suppression of the July uprising of 1917, panorama of cars on the square.

Photographs reflecting the July events of 1917 in Petrograd and the suppression of the Kornilov mutiny in September 1917. Photographs of Red Guards and revolutionary soldiers on the streets of Petrograd and at the entrance to Smolny in October 1917. Newsreel: horse artillery units on Palace Square.

Soldiers being loaded onto a truck.

Navy sailors loading boxes of ammunition onto platforms.

Providing assistance to the wounded on the streets of Moscow during the disarmament of anarchist groups in 1918. Walls of buildings damaged during street fighting in Moscow in October 1917. Demonstrations and rallies on the streets of Petrograd during the elections to the Constituent Assembly in December 1917. People walk past a poster stand with campaign leaflets.

Scattering election leaflets on the streets of Petrograd.

Participants in rallies catch election leaflets.

Speakers at one of the election rallies.

Photographs of voting during the elections of the Constituent Assembly and the work of the electoral commissions.

Newsreel: revolutionary soldiers on the steps of the entrance to Smolny in October 1917. Lenin's face talking to the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. Panorama of Red Square during a rally in support of the Constituent Assembly.

Demonstrations and manifestations in support of the Constituent Assembly.

Soldiers get into the back of a truck.

Views of the streets and squares of Petrograd in January 1918, people on the streets.

Photograph of V.D. Bonch-Bruevich at the table in his office.

Newsreel: panorama of the rally and demonstration in Petrograd on January 5, 1918 in support of the Constituent Assembly.

Demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd in March-April 1917. Latvian riflemen at the Tauride Palace in the spring of 1917. View of part of the rally in Petrograd.

Faces of the members of the Constituent Assembly in photographs.

Group photographs of the members of the Constituent Assembly from various political parties, alternate with newsreel of rallies and demonstrations in Petrograd in support of the Constituent Assembly.

Photographs of I.V. Stalin and Ya.

Lunacharsky.

Faces of Lenin and A. Kollontai in photographs.

Photograph of V.D. Bonch-Bruevich at his desk.

Photographs of V.I. Lenin, M.S. Photographs of the meeting of the Constituent Assembly.

Newsreel: women's demonstration in Petrograd in March 1917, interspersed with photographs of Red Guards and revolutionary sailors.

Views of Moscow and Petrograd streets.

Red Guards by a fire in the street.

Photograph by Bonch-Bruevich.

Fragments of a photograph of the only session of the Constituent Assembly.

Panorama of the hall of the Tauride Palace (top).

Portrait of Ya. M. Sverdlov.

Fragments of photographs of sessions in the Tauride Palace, interspersed with portraits.

Photograph of sailors from the guard of the Constituent Assembly, sitting at a table.

Portrait of I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov.

Photograph of Bukharin (in profile).

Portrait of I. V. Stalin.

Newsreel and photographs.

Portrait of Anatoly Zheleznyakov (in profile).

Portrait of the chairman of the Constituent Assembly V. Chernov.

Photographs of rooms with papers scattered on the floor.

Photograph of an empty hall of the Tauride Palace.

Photographs by P.E. Dybenko, V.I. Lenin.

Newsreel: funeral of cadets killed during the October battles of 1917 in Moscow.

Soldiers marching across the square.