Life of people in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Moscow street scenes. A triumphal arch built by Alexander the Great to commemorate victory over Napoleon. Buildings along street sides. Vehicles move past on a street. Representatives at the entrance of a building. A commodity market. Interior of the building as the representatives barter goods of their countries. A young Russian woman wearing an elaborate costume with a headdress of many jewels and flowers, and many necklaces.
Czar Nicholas II out of power in Russia and the Bolsheviks gain power after the October Revolution (Russian Revolution). Romanav dynasty Emperor Nicholas II with his family including son Alexis and his four daughters and his wife at his palace in Moscow. Czar Nicholas II and his courtiers review troops of Russian Cossack soldiers at his palace for the last time. Czar's Russian soldiers march across frozen and snow-covered battlefields. Wounded Russian soldiers return to their villages from World War 1. Soldiers see the starving Russian citizens and begin to mutiny and the front and stop fighting. View of Alexander Kerensky with a crowd after he comes to power in Russia in February 1917 revolution and soon after the Bolsheviks gain rule of Russia in October Revolution. Parade of people and soldiers with pro Bolshevik signs and banners during the revolution. Russian soldiers of the Red Army parade with Commander Leon Trotsky at Red Square in Moscow. A famine strikes Russia and people struggel during the famine. View of snow covered streets and Russian citizens struggling with famine. Young children and orphans are fed at group tables assembled outside on a snowy plaza. Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin seen at his desk in his office in the Kremlin, talking. View of Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, taking notes.
World War I views of Russia including both pre Russian Revolution scenes and post-revolution scenes. Opening scene shows workmen and soldiers at a construction (or rebuilding site) in Russia. Ordinary shops seen, closed with metal barriers across their fronts, on a commercial district street. Russian troops marching in review before Tsar Nicholas II, and other mounted officers, in a square in Russia. A military band marching across the square, watched by Russian troops in formation and by spectators. In post revolution Russia, An open phaeton car drives into the midst of a crowd of Russian soldiers and civilians. Three principal occupants step from the car including an officer carrying a bouquet of flowers. (Some enthusiastic bystanders show great interest in the car. At least one climbs into it.) The car's occupants next appear on the balcony of the Hotel National in Moscow, where they are greeted by a large crowd assembled below them. Abrupt change of scene shows Russian Tsar Nicholas II, on horseback, reviewing troops, who hold aloft a banner reading "Warrier," among other things. He continues past civilians assembled, holding various banners.
Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, being interviewed by Eugene Lyons (unseen). Lyons was United Press International (UPI) correspondent in Moscow, and the first Western correspondent to be granted an interview with Stalin.
Children of gypsy community in Moscow, Soviet Union. Children come out of a building. They play around a hand drawn cart. Children eat their meal and wash clothes. Young boys dance and clap. Children sleep in beds in an open area.
Soviet and Chinese delegates meet for revision of agreement to permit personnel of Chinese Eastern railroad to be divided equally in two nations and other peace issues in Moscow, Soviet Union. A car driven. President of the Board of Directors of the Chinese railway Mo Teh-hui with other officials come out of the car. Delegates at a conference, seated. A man puts a diary in front of a delegate. A Chinese delegate holds a cigarette. The delegates address others. Delegates discuss and write on papers.
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