A historical overview film about the history of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
Photographs and newsreels about the revolutionary actions of workers and soldiers in Petrograd in February 1917. Shooting of a demonstration on July 4, 1917. Photographs of members of the Military Revolutionary Center for leading the uprising: A. S. Bubnov, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, Ya. M. Sverdlov, I. V. Stalin, M. S. Uritsky; members of the Military Revolutionary Committee: N. I. Podvoisky, V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko, V. Nevsky, G. Chudnovsky, K. A. Mekhonoshin. Photograph of A. F. Kerensky. Documents of the II All-Union Congress of Soviets: Decree on Peace, Decree on Land (October 26, 1917). Newsreel: armed soldiers and sailors prepare to advance to suppress P. N. Krasnov’s detachments; V. I. Lenin walks across Red Square; speech by V. I. Lenin.




Leningrad, Neva River - general.
Palace Square - general.
Leningrad City Council building – departure; Leningrad - general (top).
Nevsky Prospect - various.
Cruiser Aurora - general.
Eagle sculpture - small.
Photo from 1913: Celebration of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty - general.
Newsreel from 1913: Nicholas II and the Empress pass by, accompanied by their retinue - various.
Photographs: people standing; workers dragging wheelbarrows with coal; dinner in honor of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty - general.
Newsreel from 1910-1914: Workers dragging a pipe; miners at the coalface - various.
Peasants threshing grain - general.
Landowner checking the depth of plowing - general.
Cannon shot - small.
Explosions - medium.
Tachankas rushing - general.
Cannons firing - ed.
Cavalry rushing - general.
Cannons firing - ed.
Killed - Wed.
Wounded - general.
Refugees - general.
A hospital train is standing - general.
Photo: A queue at a store - Wed, general.
Newsreel of 1917: Soldiers at a rest stop - general.
Industrial landscape - general.
Steelworkers at work - general.
Strike - general.
Nevsky Prospect filled with people - various.
Soldiers riding by with a banner - Wed.
Soldiers standing on an armored car saluting - Wed.
A banner with the tsar's coat of arms is torn down from a house - general.
Soldiers passing by; the tsar's coat of arms is thrown down - various.
Jubilant people - various.
People breaking down prison bars, freeing prisoners - Wed.
Prisoners leaving prisons - Wed.
People walking along Nevsky - general.
Sale of the Pravda newspaper - general, medium.
Photo: V.I. Lenin - medium, zoom in.
St.
Isaac's Cathedral - general (top).
Ice drift on the Neva - general.
Monument to V.I. Lenin - medium.
House on Shirokaya Street where Lenin's mother lived.
Apartment where Lenin's mother and sister lived - misc.
Panorama from the armchair to the portrait of M.A. Ulyanova - medium, medium.
Photo: M.A. Ulyanova's grave at the Volkovo Cemetery - medium.
Photo: Alexander Ulyanov - medium.
Shlisselburg Fortress - general.
Lenin's personal file - medium.
Prison cell - medium, general.
Photo in V.I. Ulyanov's personal file.
Ice drift on the Neva - general.
Tauride Palace - medium.
Photo: meeting of Bolsheviks; speech by V.I. Lenin - various.
Newsreel of 1917: Leaders of the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries are standing - various.
Killed - ed.
Trenches; carrying a wounded man - cf.
Women are crying - various.
Square in Petrograd - general, Poland.
People have gathered near the Tauride Palace - general, cf.
Photographs: meeting of the Petrograd Soviet; Mensheviks are speaking - various; meeting hall - general; supporters of the war are standing with posters - various.
The city of Leningrad - general, Poland.
Bridge across the Neva - general.
People are walking, an old sailor with his wife is passing by - various.
Newsreel of 1917: Celebration of May 1; people in the square - various.
Filming - general.
Rallies; a sailor is speaking - various.
Building of the Museum of the October Revolution; museum halls; stairs - various.
Poland from the banner to the window; the room where V.I. Lenin worked - kr.
Window - cf.
The balcony from which V.I. Lenin spoke - cf.
Portrait of V.I. Lenin by the artist Beringov; the artist's autograph on the drawing - various.
Cartoon: photographs of Bolsheviks, soldiers, sailors - kr., cf.
The building of the Kirov Plant in Leningrad - cf.
Workers walking; panorama of the memorial plaque - various.
Photo: workers - kr.
The building of the 1st Cadet Corps, where the 1st All-Russian Congress of Soviets was held in June 1917 - general.
Photo: workers with slogans - cf.
Photo: participants of the congress - various.
Portrait of V.I. Lenin - kr. ,




Newsreel 1914-1918: Destroyed buildings, access roads; garbage - various.
Village; peasants walking toward their house - general.
Woman with a child in her arms - limited.
Child crying - limited.
Queue at a store - general.
Priest blessing troops - general.
Troops standing - general, Poland.
Soldiers kissing the banner - moderate.
Wounded - various.
Woman crying - moderate.
Rallies; demonstration in Petrograd - various. 1st Machine-Gun Regiment standing - general, Poland.
Demonstrators walking - general.
Demonstrators being shot.
Photographs of the shooting - various.
Newsreel 1917: Counter-revolutionary detachments passing by - general, Poland.
Photographs of counter-revolutionary detachments - various.
Photo: disarmed soldiers of the 1st Machine-Gun Regiment - moderate, Poland.
The building of the Kshesinskaya mansion, where the Bolshevik headquarters were located - general.
Newsreel of 1917: Pogromists in the palace - wed, Poland.
Soldiers marching - wed, Poland through the rooms of the apartment museum on Shiroka Street - wed, Poland.
Photo: a truck with soldiers - wed.
The Moika Embankment; openwork lattice - kr.
The building on the Moika Embankment, where the former editorial office of the Pravda newspaper was located - wed.
The newspaper editorial office museum - general, Poland.
Chain - wed.
Sphinx - kr.
The Neva River - general.
A square in Leningrad - general.
The case of the arrest of V.I. Lenin - kr, Poland.
House on 10th Rozhdestvenskaya Street - wed.
Photo of the Bolshevik worker Alliluyev - kr.
The Alliluyev apartment museum - general, Poland.
Desk; clock; bookcase with books, panorama of the mirror - various.
Photo of Primorsky Station - general.
Newsreel of 1917: People at the editorial offices of the newspapers "Novoye Vremya", "Vechernee Vremya" - various.
Photo: people at the editorial offices of the newspapers - general, Wed.
Photo: newspaper with a portrait of Lenin - ed.
Newsreel of 1917: Ladies in a cafe reading a newspaper - Wed.
Shop: wigs - various.
Photo: V.I. Lenin in a wig - ed.
Lake Razliv - various.
Photo of the Bolshevik worker Yemelyanov - ed.
The hut where V.I. Lenin was hiding - Wed.
Place for a fire - various.
Photo: the building where the 6th Party Congress was held - general.
Protocols of the congress - ed.
Rain on the lake, birds taking off - general.
Photo of the machinist Hugo Jalava, who ferried V.I. Lenin to Finland disguised as a stoker - kr.
Steam locomotive 293, on which V.I. Lenin rode; a panorama of the wheels - wed, general, kr.
Landscape outside the window of a moving train - general, a panorama.
Wheels - kr.
Rails - kr.
Photo of peasant Parviainen, with whom V.I. Lenin lived - kr.
The house where Lenin lived and worked (Yalkala place) - general, a panorama, various. V.I. Lenin's book "The State and Revolution" - kr.
Forest landscape - general.
The city of Helsinki (Helsingfors) - general.
The building on Hagnes Square, where V.I. Lenin lived with the Social Democrat Gustav Rovio - kr, a panorama.
Entrance door - kr.
Photo: G. Rovio - kr.
Telephone - kr.
The room where V.I. Lenin lived - general, Poland.
Train station - general.
Photo by Kessi Akhmal - cro.
Post car; mailboxes - various.
Museum-apartment of engine driver Arthur Blomkvist - various.
The desk at which V.I. Lenin worked - wed.
City square, street - general, cro.
Newsreel from 1917: General Kornilov is standing - wed.
Factory wheel - cro.
Factory chimneys - various.
People are going on strike - various.
A worker is standing - cro.
Rally - general.
Workers are given guns - wed.
Soldiers are going to defeat the "Kornilovites" - general.
Photo: soldiers are shooting; the "Kornilovites" are handing over their weapons - wed.
Photo: workers at a rally; soldiers with placards - wed, cro.
The city of Vyborg - general.
Fortress - wed.
House-museum; run over memorial plaque - kr.
Photo by Yuki Lattuki - kr.
Lattuki's apartment - general, panorama.
Desk where Lenin worked - various.
Photo of Lenin in a wig - kr.
Sculptures on a building in Leningrad - kr., panorama.
House of Bolshevik Fofanova; apartment - wed., general, panorama.
Photo of Fofanova - kr.
Embankment of the Karpovka River - wed.
Apartment where the meeting of the Central Committee of the Party was held on October 10 - general, panorama.
Photo of Lenin - kr. panorama from table to chandelier - kr., panorama.
Window of the room - general, departure.




Photos of Red Guard workers – various.
House-museum on Bolotnaya Street (in the Leskovsko-Udelnenskaya Duma), where the extended meeting of the Central Committee was held - general.
Staircase, room, table – various, Poland.
Portrait of V.I. Lenin in a wig - red.
Photos of members of the Central Committee: Kalinin, Skripnik, Schmidt, Krylenko - various.
Photos of members of the Central Committee elected to the military-revolutionary center: Bubnov, Dzerzhinsky, Sverdlov, Stalin, Uritsky - various.
View of the Neva with raised bridges - various.
Apartment-museum on the Vyborg Side - general.
Map of Petrograd - red, Poland.
The room where V.I. Lenin lived; lamp on the table - general, red.
Raised bridge - general.
Leningrad at night - various.
Lantern - red.
Sculpture - red.
St Isaac's Cathedral (night) - Wed.
Smolny building (night) - general.
Portrait of V.I. Lenin - cro.
Autograph of the artist Shafran on the portrait - various.
Photo: Red Guard workers at Smolny; sailors are standing - various.
Smolny corridor - cro, Poland.
Photo: armed regiments are marching - general.
Photographs of members of the Military Revolutionary Committee: Podvoisky, Antonov-Ovseenko, Nevsky, Chudnovsky, Likhonoshin - various.
View of the Neva - general.
The city of Leningrad - general.
Newsreel of 1917: Red Guards at Smolny - various.
Soldiers climb the steps to Smolny - Wed.
Sentries at Smolny - Wed.
Leningrad; Nevsky Prospect - general, departure.
Palace Square - general.
Post office building; telegraph office; Baltic and Moscow railway stations, telephone exchange - various.
Switchboard console - Wed, Poland.
Photo: soldiers operating the telephone - Wed.
Cruiser Aurora (night) - various.
Bridge - various.
Photo: Helsinki railway station - Wed, kr.
Train rushing by - general.
Palace Bridge - general.
Winter Palace building - general.
Telegraph - kr, Wed.
Telegraph tape - kr.
Photo of the head of the Provisional Government Kerensky; his office - Wed, general.
Sculpture on the arch of Palace Square - general, zoom in.
Photo: portrait of V.I. Lenin - kr.
Newspaper with a message about the overthrow of the Provisional Government - kr.
Newsreel from 1917: Man throwing leaflets and newspapers - Wed, kr.
Newspapers and leaflets being distributed from a car - general.
People on the square - general.
The building of the Winter Palace - general.
Newsreel of 1917: Cadets building barricades - general.
Sentries at the barricades - general.
Soldiers of the Peter and Paul Fortress - general.
Cannon barrel - medium.
Malachite Hall of the Winter Palace - general., Poland.
View of the Peter and Paul Fortress - general.
Window - small.
White Dining Room - general., Poland.
Telegraph apparatus - small, general.
Window of the Winter Palace - medium., Poland.
Cruiser Aurora (night) - various, Poland.
Chandelier - small.
Palace Square (evening) - general., Poland, various.
Staircase - small, Poland.
Trellis passage - general., Poland.
White Dining Room - general., Poland.
Clock - medium.
Photo: soldiers reading a newspaper - general.
Flag on the Smolny building - general, zoom in.
Sculpture of Lenin - general.
Smolny Assembly Hall - various.
Photo: Red Army soldiers - kr, PPR. Decrees "On Peace", "On Land" in newspapers - various.
Photographs of workers, a peasant, a woman, a sailor, a soldier - various.
Portrait of V.I. Lenin - kr.
Photo: sentries at V.I. Lenin's office in Smolny - wed, kr.
Sign on the door - kr. V.I. Lenin's office in Smolny (room #67) - various.
The desk at which Bonch-Bruyevich, the manager of the affairs of the Council of People's Commissars, sat - kr.
Photo of Bonch-Bruyevich - kr.
Desk of the Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars Gorbunov - kr.
Typewriter - kr.
Photo of Gorbunov - kr.
Desk of V.I. Lenin - various.
Photos: V.I. Lenin - categorized.
Geographical maps on the table - categorized.
Telephone receiver - categorized.
Newsreel 1918-1923: Explosion at a railway station - general.
The station building is on fire - general.
Sailors loading boxes onto a train - general, general.
A pilot looks at his watch - general.
Armed workers and sailors pass by - various.
Explosions - various.
Fights - general.
Leaflets flying, a tram passing by - general.
Newspapers - various.
Sailors having lunch - general.
An orchestra passing along the street - general.
Photographs: workers and soldiers; peasants reading a newspaper; workers; soldiers - various.
Radio antenna - categorized.
Newsreel 1918-1923: Moscow street - general.
Leaflets being dropped from a car - general.
A woman reading a leaflet - categorized.
A brass band plays - Wed. V. I. Lenin walks along Red Square accompanied by people - common.
Those gathered in the square watch - various. V. I. Lenin speaks - various.
People on Red Square - common.