Monument to Prince Volodymyr (Volodymyrs'kyi descent, 6, Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000) in Kiev, Soviet Russia (present day Ukraine). Coastline in the background. A view of statue and steeple. Several people gathered in courtyard of a Church. A procession passes through the courtyard of the Church. Priest and women in the Church. Women pray in the Church. People watch the priest on the altar. A woman kisses the Cross. The Orthodox priest blesses the congregation.
Post Russian Revolution events in Russia. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, silhouetted and speaking. Commander of the Red Army Leon Trotsky seated at a table. Workers and Peasants Inspection Group is formed and its chief is Joseph Stalin. Stalin, walking with Molotov, and others, on a street. Stalin's supporters Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. People at a rail road station. Harvesting grain with machinery. Workers engaged in some private enterprises. Canned food arriving from the United States. American Relief Administration workers handling food items. Scenes of American Relief Administration feeding Russians. Children in Russia eating food. Picture of Herbert Hoover, head ot the American Relief Administration, seen onboard a ship in a harbor. March 14, 1923, newspaper headline reads 'Lenin Suffers a stroke, Condition is Serious; Announcement Causes a Sensation in Moscow'.
Postwar scenes in Moscow, Russia, after end of World War II. The population including civilians and soldiers mingle and enjoy peacetime activities. A young Soviet soldier walks with a young woman who carries a large bouquet of flowers. People stroll leisurely along the sidewalks. A motorist in a convertible coupe automobile, parked on Red Square, paints a picture of Saint Basil's Cathedral, which is seen clearly in background. Trams pass behind him. View of huge storage tanks.Bricklayers at work on top level of a building. Numerous government buildings. View of Moscow State University building from 1793 on Manezhnaya ploshchad (Square). Students emerging from the University.
The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. A large crowd of civilians outside. The Saint Basil Cathedral and Spasskaya Tower. People talk to each other while the Kremlin guards give duty at the entrance. Military personnel meet and talk to a guard. The Spasskaya Tower with its ruby star. A military personnel walks near the monument. A lady with a sleeping baby in her arms outside the Kremlin.
Tourists visit Lenin's Tomb in Moscow, Russia. The Minin and Pozharsky Monument and Saint Basil's Cathedral. A large crowd of tourists gathered at Red Square. A man takes a photograph of girls posing in front of Lenin's Tomb entrance.
Perhaps as part of campaign to denigrate holy relics, and to question incorruptibility, a secular Bolshevik Russian man is seen on an outdoor stage holding an electric device with wires connected to it. He displays bones of a Saint to crowd of persons. Men on stage hold up various bones of the saint. Snow on ground. Crowd of soldiers and civilians shows mixed emotions during this anti-religious campaign of the Russian Civil War, following the Russian Revolution.
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