A huge crowd of soldiers gather on streets of Moscow, Russia, as pamphlets are distributed during Russian Civil War (also during time frame of World War 1). A soldier reads posters pasted on a wall. A huge crowd of soldiers gathers around, and many sit upon, the Statue of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich at Manege Square, Moscow. ( Note: The statue,by Pietro Canonica. Was erected in 1912 and destroyed in 1918.)
Samara in Russia during period of Russian Revolution and World War I. Shoreline as seen from a ship moving on the Volga River. A man on the controls of the boat, and shoreline in the background including St George Church in Samara in distant background. Roof views of freight railroad trains in a marshaling yard. Carts in a street market and men, women and children at the informal street market, selling and trading food and goods. Crowd hangs around on streets.
Russian people vaccinated in an open air clinic. A nurse delivers innoculation injections to the backs of men, women, and children in Samara Russia during period of Russian Revolution and World War I. Civilian people queue for hot water from standpipe. Mass of carts, horses, and camels in a market square. Sack of grain opened and emptied out into a cart. Russian man with handful of grain. Women and children in the market square. Camels stand by the carts. Truck with sign "American Relief Administration (ARA)" painted on the side.
Russian refugees in Novorosisk, Russia during the period of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Relief supplies from allied nations are offloaded from a ship at dock to the dockside. Refugees supplies on the ground. Dock buildings seen and men, women, and children outside shacks. A woman cooks food using a simple stove on the ground. Children stand nearby.
Russia immediately after the Russian Revolution and takeover of Petrograd. Russians marching on the streets with placards, waving white flags. Bolshevik officers disembark from a train. Russian Marxist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, in military uniform, shakes hands with officers. Leon Trotsky and Bolshevik officers walking together. Bolshevik officers leave by car. Bolshevik men and women with rifles enter a building. View of Vladimir Lenin, wearing civilian clothes, in a crowd. Guards with artillery at the Smolny Institute in Petrograd.
Christmas preparation in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), very soon after the Russian Revolution (or "October Revolution") brought Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and Soviets regime in control in Russia. People move goods on the snow covered streets using sleds. Facing shortages of fuel, people collect and carry wood to burn from a dock. Citizens stacking and carrying timbers for fuel. With men involved in revolution and in World War I, women workers clean roads of city, working together in a group with brooms.