Whaler "Herman" in Siberia, Russia during arctic cruise. Natives on sleds as they bring in news of Captain Robert Bartlett to a ship in Emma Harbor in Siberia. The Eskimo natives travel across a snow covered field on sleds pulled by dogs. Captain Robert Bartlett comes aboard SS Herman (with news of the fate of the ship Karluk and its survivors marooned on Wrangel Island). Captain Christian Pedersen welcomes Bartlett aboard. Ice being cleared for the ship to get underway at sea. Ice floats on the surface of the sea. Captain Bartlett and Captain Pedersen aboard SS Herman, a trading and whaling vessel.
Alexander Kerensky, War Minister of the Russian Provisional Government and Russian Army Commander-in-Chief, General Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov, enter a building in Petrograd .They are accompanied by many staff officers. Dramatization of ending hostilities between Russia and Germany. A Russian and a German soldier shake hands and are joined by soldiers from both sides. German and Russian soldiers celebrate. Russian troops returning from the front. A Russian soldier adjusts his socks and boots. Russian troops hike and move cargo in horse-drawn wagons. Russian troop train with soldiers on roof. Caption refers to Lenin being in Petrograd on October 7, 1917. Places, in Petrograd, inhabited by Vladimir Llyich Lenin, and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. Newpapers and letters pertaining to the period.
The Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The troops on horses move through the streets. A building seen in the background. The exterior view of the Ipatiev House where the Romanovs were executed. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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.
Russian soldiers advance towards the battlefield in Moscow, Russia during World War II . A map of Russia showing places. Joseph Stalin addresses a vast crowd in Red Square. Buildings in the area. Ski troops, cavalry and infantry units march from the square. Tanks and trucks loaded with infantry units roll through the city. Snow covered area. An armored locomotive and a freight train is removed from a camouflaged shed. Trenches are dug in the snow, barbed wire is strung and trees are chopped down to barricade a road. German planes hover over the city and bombard the city. Explosions and smoke from bombardment.
German attack on Russia during World War 2. German He-111 bombers in flight over Gomel, Russia. Pilot in the cockpit of an plane. Bombs dropped. Soviets fire antiaircraft guns and FLAK smoke is seen. Bombers in flight and again drop bombs. On the ground, Soviets set off smoke screens in attempt to obscure targets.