Photos of the revolution (1987)

A view of part of the Palace Square through the arch of the General Staff in Leningrad, alternates with photographs of barricades of firewood at the Winter Palace in October 1917.

Photo of the rally in Petrograd in 1917 (panorama), fragments of the photo, faces in the photo.

Photos of demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd in 1917, a banner with a slogan in a column of waiters.

The faces of the rally participants and the soldier-speaker speaking from the platform in the photo (panorama).

Photo of children participating in the demonstration.

Photos of the banquet participants at the table, with waiters standing behind them.

Photo of a demonstration on Nevsky Prospekt in Petrograd.

A view of a part of Nevsky Prospekt (from above) alternates with a photo of the shooting of the July 1917 demonstration on Nevsky Prospekt, taken by K. Bulla.

Enlarged fragments of the photo.

The faces of the rally participants in the photo (panorama).

Photographs of Red Guards and revolutionary soldiers in the Smolny courtyard in October 1917, taken by Ya.

Steinberg, the faces in the photos.

Residents of Leningrad at a newsstand, the newspaper Pravda on the kiosk window, alternates with photos of newspaper-reading participants of rallies and demonstrations in 1917 in Petrograd.

Photo of the cruiser Aurora, which entered the Neva River.

A memorial plaque on the shield of the cruiser's tank gun, from which a shot was fired during the occupation of the Winter Palace.

Photo of revolutionary sailors on the background of the cruiser Aurora.

The cruiser Aurora on the Neva River in the parking lot at the embankment (panorama, from above).

Photos of demonstrations and marching Red Guards.

A photo of a part of the building of the Winter Palace and the Palace Square after the day after the assault.

Group photos of revolutionary soldiers posing with weapons of the Red Guard detachments, members of the regional committees of the RSDLP(b).

Photos of the Red Guards on the steps of the Smolny entrance, the faces in the photo, alternate with shots of the modern Smolny in 1987.

Photo of the sentries at the entrance to Smolny.

Photo of Red Guards and sailors on an armored car in the Smolny courtyard.

Photo of a telephone exchange switchboard with telephone operators connecting subscribers.

Photo of junkers at the switchboard before the capture of the telephone exchange by the Red Guards.

Photo of Red Guards sitting around a campfire on Petrograd Street.

Photo of the Red Guards at the coffin of a deceased comrade.

Lenin's face V.I. in the photo during the funeral of M.T. Elizarov in 1919, alternates with the image of Lenin on a poster on the wall of one of the buildings in Leningrad.

Lenin's face in the photo on May 1, 1918, during the parade on Khodynka field in Moscow.

The faces of the participants of the rallies in Petrograd and the Red Guards in the photographs of 1917-1919 alternate with the faces of young people walking along Nevsky Prospekt in Leningrad.

A fragment of a part of the building and a window of the Winter Palace alternates with photographs of the premises of the Winter Palace after its capture on October 25, 1917.

View of a part of the Palace Square in Leningrad, children running around an old camera mounted on a tripod on the square.

The faces of a girl and a boy alternate with a photograph of a boy in a sailor uniform with a carbine in Petrograd in 1919.