Saw mill operated by U.S. 310th Engineers in Archangel, Russia during World War 1 time period. Lumbers piled up and bridge in the background. U.S. 310th Engineers of American Expeditionary Forces operate saw mill. Wood piled up. Horse drawn cart loaded with wood. Wood unloaded from cart.
Military band (not playing) leads U.S. soldiers of the 339th Infantry, in loose formation, through wooded area to a cemetery in a field near a church in Archangel (Arkhangelsk) during the Allied North Russia Intervention of World War 1. Several officers (unidentifiable) are standing on a raised stand. Two large crosses are seen behind them. Scene changes completely, to American Memorial Day ceremony at Archangel,in 1919. Allied officers occupy stands decorated with colors of the participating Entente powers. The military band is located nearby. A speaker's stand is set up and ostensibly occupied by Brigadier General Wilds P. Richardson and British Field Marshal Edmund Ironside. (But they cannot be recognized in the distance) A horse and carriage are seen in the far background. Soldiers, sailors, and civilians are in attendance. The ceremony begins with everyone saluting colors held by an honor guard. Then, a squad of American soldiers fires a three-salvo salute with their rifles. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Things and belongings of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin after his death at Lenin's villa in Gorki, Russia. A wooden bench in the garden. Lenin's chair and his walking stick in his reading room. Books and documents in the library of Lenin. A photograph of Vladimir Lenin with his friend Joseph Stalin.
Eastern terminal of the Trans-Siberian railway. Various views of the railroad terminal building in Vladivostok, Russia, during Russian Civil War and World War I. Soldiers and travelers stand on the station steps. A horse-drawn carriage arrives at the building. An American Army officer comes out of the train station. A funeral cortege with elaborate carriage drawn by team of horses, and mourners walking behind. An electric street car on a street, and an open automobile, both passing several horse-drawn wagons. Horse-drawn carriages pass Czech soldiers escorting German prisoners along a street.
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.
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