Train to revolution (1969)

Newsreel of 1917: On the fronts of World War I, soldiers greet each other after learning about the February Revolution in Russia - various.

Military telephone operators and telegraph operators work, transmitting messages about the revolution in Russia.

A printing press works, newspapers with messages about the February Revolution are printed.

A soldier of the tsarist army reads a newspaper to peasants.

In the streets, people read newspapers with messages about the February Revolution.

Photographs of various strata of the population.

Portrait of V. I. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya.

The city of Zurich and the house where V. I. Lenin lived in exile.

Lake Zurich, panorama of the pier.

Streets of Zurich, the city clock tower.

Newsreel of 1917: Popular jubilation on the streets of Petrograd and Moscow after the February Revolution, the abdication of Nicholas II from the throne and the emergence of the Bolshevik Party from underground.

Soldiers and workers with revolutionary slogans pass by.

Soldiers remove the sign "Supplier to the Court of His Imperial Majesty" from a house and break down the bars from a prison window.

Funeral of the victims of the February Revolution in Petrograd on the Field of Mars.

Participants in the funeral donate money to help the families of the deceased.

Members of the Provisional Government: Skobelev, Guchkov, Lvov - and representatives of the St.

Petersburg Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies at the funeral.

City of Zurich.

Photo of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich.

Members of the Provisional Government: Prince Lvov, Prime Minister A. Guchkov, Milyukov, Rodzianko, Kerensky.

Photo - Meeting of the Provisional Government in the Tauride Palace.

Photo - Foreign diplomats, including the British ambassador Buchanan, at a meeting of deputies in the Tauride Palace.

Newsreel: Buchanan's daughter in a car near the Tauride Palace.

The English congratulate Russian soldiers on the victory of the revolution.

The revolutionary troops swear allegiance to the Provisional Government, priests come out to conduct the oath ceremony.

Disabled veterans of the imperialist war stand on Red Square, where the oath ceremony is taking place.

Photo by N. K. Krupskaya.

Cartoon - a map of Europe with the Kaiser's Germany, Russia, England, France marked.

Photographs by I. Armand, A. Kollontai, V. A. Karpinsky, Ya.

Ganetsky, V. I. Lenin.

Street of Zurich, Lake Zurich - general (from different points).

Panorama of the roofs of old houses.

Newsreel of 1917: Moscow in the first days after the February Revolution, people on the streets, soldiers, workers pass by, a cabby, a tram with passengers passes.

People on the streets of Petrograd, people reading leaflets, newspapers.

Photographs of people reading.

Newspaper "Pravda" from March 23, 1917. Published letter from Lenin "The First Stage of the Russian Revolution" (the first letter of five "letters from afar" sent by Lenin from Switzerland).

Streets of Zurich, old houses, cobblestone streets.

Newsreel: A steam locomotive is moving, the wheels of the train are turning quickly.

A passenger train is entering a tunnel.

Landscapes of Switzerland (from the movement of the train).

The train passes through the cities of Theyig, Gottmadingen.

Local residents wave their hands, seeing the train off.

Photographs of V. I. Lenin's comrades-in-arms, with whom he secretly moved from Switzerland through Germany to Russia - N. K. Krupskaya, G. Usievich, I. Armand, O. Ravich, M. Goberman, E. Usievich, M. Tskhakaya, F. Platten.

Railway tracks, a train is rushing.

Newsreel of 1917: Germany - a beggar on the street, an organ grinder is playing, a woman with children is sitting on the sidewalk, children are playing in a dirty yard, queues for bread.

Bread queue in Russia.

A passenger train approaches Berlin, Berlin station, platform.

Deserted streets of Berlin during the strike.

Bread queues in Germany and Russia.

Newsreel 1914-1918: Footage from World War I - soldiers in the trenches.

Mobilization in different countries.

Trains with soldiers on the way.

Photo by V. I. Lenin.

Newsreel 1914-1918: World War I: shells exploding on the front line, soldiers in the trenches, cavalry advancing, cannons firing, wounded soldiers walking along the road.

A priest (Ksendz) blessing soldiers before battle.

Accountants working in the military chancery.

Russian soldiers at a fraternal cemetery hammering together crosses for new graves.

A soldier carrying a dead comrade, a military field hospital in a dugout, the wounded being carried to the hospital.

A train is moving, landscapes taken while the train is in motion.

Photo by V. I. Lenin.

Soldiers in the trenches resting, smoking, talking.

A soldier sitting by the wall of a destroyed house.

Russian soldiers at the front receiving mail.

Soldiers inspecting their clothes for lice.

A soldier feeding pigeons by a dugout.

Signalmen are laying a communication line.

Soldiers mint various things from shell casings.

A soldier plays the piano near a destroyed house.

Russian soldiers dance on the edge of a forest, play leapfrog (freeze frame).

Guns fire, soldiers in trenches during an artillery barrage.

Soldiers try to lift a fallen horse harnessed to a cart.

Fraternization of Russian and German soldiers at the front.

Photograph of V. I. Lenin.

Rails, a semaphore opens, a train travels through Germany.

Manuscript of V. I. Lenin's "April Theses".

Production of shells and weapons at different factories in different countries in the period 1914-1917. Portraits of arms suppliers Putilov, Krupp.

A cannon on a railway platform.

Launching a warship at a shipyard in England.

A warship (dreadnought) at sea.

A caravan of warships at sea, a column of military vehicles on the road.

Soldiers at the front unload ammunition from a vehicle.

Bread is baked in a field bakery, an officer cuts a loaf and gives it to soldiers.

Refugees with children on the roads in different countries.

A child asks his mother for food.

In the city, children are taught to use a gas mask.

Children in military uniform stand in formation.

The English queen inspects a line of female soldiers.

A German general inspects a line of old men called up for military service.

Awards for valor are presented to widows of fallen soldiers and officers.

A wedding in absentia with a friend of the groom who is at the front (France).

War invalids weave baskets, sew boots, armless invalids dig the earth.

England - A woman on an elephant plows the land, an elephant pushes a wagon with timber.

A queue at a pawnshop.

Refugees boarding a wagon, soldiers carrying elderly women in their arms.

Ashes and ruins in different countries.

Landscapes of Germany (from the train in motion).

Passenger train on the way.

The German port of Sassnitz.

Trains in the port.

Passengers in the port.

A train is loaded onto the ferry "Queen Victoria".

The captain gives the signal to sail, the ferry is at sea.

A party of seagulls in the sky, passengers on the deck during the voyage, the ship's captain on the deck.

The lighthouse and pier of the Swedish port of Trolleborg.

The ferry "Queen Victoria" enters the port.

Passengers on the deck are resting, reading newspapers.

Photographs by J. Ganetsky and the leader of the Left Social Democrats of the city of Malmö, journalist O. Grimlund, whom V. I. Lenin met during the move from Switzerland to Russia in March-April 1917. The port of Trolleborg - embankment, buildings.

Landscapes of Sweden (from the train in motion).

Windmill in the field.

Malmö - a monument to G. Adolf on the square.

The house where V. I. Lenin stayed and met with local social democrats.

Passers-by and children on the streets and in the squares.

The building of the Savoy restaurant, where V. I. Lenin met with the Swedes.

An empty restaurant hall, silverware.

Old buildings, the clock tower in Malmö, the railway station (from departure), a passenger train on the way. V. I. Lenin talks to the American correspondent Eyre.

Revolutionary F. Platten in a train carriage on the way to Russia in 1918. O. Grimlund in a train carriage - in a compartment, in the corridor.

Spring landscapes of Sweden, a passenger train approaching Stockholm.

Passengers get off the carriages.

Stockholm.

Stockholm newspaper "Politiken" from April 14, 1917. Lenin's portrait in the newspaper.

Photo - Swedes reading a newspaper.

Text of the memorandum by J. Buchanan, in which he writes about V. I. Lenin and the attitude of the German government towards him.

Photo by J. Buchanan.

French ambassador to Russia M. Paleologue, who wrote a memorandum about V. I. Lenin.

Clock on the city hall in Stockholm, a train approaching the station platform.

Photo - "spies" waiting for the train to arrive.

Passengers getting off the train, station square.

Swedish Social Democrats meeting V. I. Lenin are walking on the platform - the mayor of Lindhagen, editor of the newspaper "Politiken" Carleson, writers T. Nerman and F. Ström and others.

Photo of V. I. Lenin and those accompanying him on the trip - O. Ravich, N. Krupskaya, M. Tskhakaya, I. Armand.

Photo - V. I. Lenin and others walking from the station to the Regina Hotel.

Photojournalists and cameramen film the meeting of V. I. Lenin in Stockholm.

Photographer V. Malmström, who photographed V. I. Lenin.

Hotel "Regina", photos of the rooms.

Photos of Nerman, Lindhagen, Carleson, with whom V. I. Lenin held a meeting in Stockholm and signed a joint communiqué.

The newspaper "Politiken" with the text of the joint communiqué.

Newsreel: Photograph of the Regina Hotel where V. I. Lenin stayed.

The building of the Russian consulate in Stockholm.

Russian refugees are given food in the courtyard of the consulate.

Streets, buildings of Stockholm, shops, people on the streets.

Photographs of the "spies" who followed V. I. Lenin during his stay in Stockholm.

Photograph of Baron Palmstierna, who wrote down in his diary information about the preparations for Lenin's assassination as he crossed the border into Russia.

A train departs from the Stockholm railway station.

Photographs of Stockholm.

Photograph of V. I. Lenin with an autograph.

A border post on the border with Russia.

The bridge over the Torneo River connecting the Finnish and Swedish banks.

Customs on the river bank.

Disabled Russian soldiers cross the bridge into Rossi, convoys travel over the bridge (V. I. Lenin crossed this bridge from abroad into Russia in 1917).

Customs in the town of Torneo, which then belonged to Russia.

A train is moving, children are running along the railroad.

A train is moving.

Photographs by N. K. Krupskaya, G. Usievich, I. Armand, O. Ravich, M. Goberman, E. Usievich, M. Tskhakaya - cr.

Russian newspapers "Pravda" and others for March 1917. Photographs of members of the Provisional Government.

Newsreel 1914-1918: Military actions during the First World War - bombs falling, an American ship sinking, a balloon burning, people jumping into the water from a sinking ship, an airplane burning, a gas explosion, cannons.

Fanfarists and drummers playing.

Dead soldiers lying.

Ruins of the city.

Film frames and photographs - a locomotive chimney, a train moving, soldiers in the trenches, close-ups of soldiers' faces, peasants, demonstrations in various cities after the February Revolution.