Chronicle of Russia #19291 (1914-1922)

There are no opening credits.

The footage is edited from different periods, without observing the chronology.

The captions are in French and one caption in French.

Russian Republic.

Petrograd.

March 23 (April 5, n.s.), 1917. NDP: Funeral of the victims of the revolution in Petrograd on April 5, 1917. A funeral procession - a demonstration - is walking down the street.

A red flag is carried in front.

The banner reads: "Russian Socialist-Democratic Labor Party.

Central Committee.

Workers of the world, unite." A large group from the Military Medical Academy is standing there.

The funeral demonstration is moving parallel to the Summer Garden towards the Field of Mars.

Rows of soldiers are standing along the procession.

They are carrying banners: "To the fighters for freedom." A delegation of women is walking.

The Engineers' Castle is also in the frame.

The round banner is decorated with a garland that says "Eternal Memory." A group of Dashnaks carries a banner reading "Eternal memory to those who died for freedom.

Armenian Revolutionary Party Dashnaktsutyun." They carry a banner with the image of Freedom and the inscription: "Eternal memory to the fighters for freedom." They carry a banner reading "Long live the Constituent Assembly." Students of the Military Medical Academy are walking, carrying a banner reading "Long live free Russia." Students of the Military Paramedic School are walking.

Participants in the funeral procession are walking and walking. "Eternal glory, eternal peace to the heroes who died for freedom." In the frame, the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is visible behind the trees bordering the Field of Mars.

PNR to the left of it along the Field of Mars with dug mass graves, participants in the funeral procession are standing with flags against the backdrop of the Engineers' Castle.

A closer shot only against the backdrop of the Horse Guards Barracks.

Banner: "Eternal Memory to the Freedom Fighters", coffins with the bodies of fallen heroes are carried in the foreground.

Soldiers parade.

Panorama of the military orchestra, Panorama of the soldiers raising their rifles, signal for a farewell volley.

Priest in frame.

Two soldiers walk past the ranks of soldiers.

March 1917. News of the February Revolution at the front.

Rally at the front.

A crowd with fluttering red flags is moving.

They wave flags and hats.

They walk across a snow-covered field.

The flag reads: "Long live a free Russia".

Medium shot of soldiers waving flags and hats.

Russian Empire.

Saint Petersburg.

August 1914. Field of Mars.

Mobilization of horses.

A Cossack with a measuring instrument accepts horses for the needs of the active army.

Military and civilians are standing.

The frame also shows the Marble Palace and the Horse Guards Barracks.

Trinity Bridge /panorama/, unsaddled horses in the foreground.

Panorama moves to the right to the Summer Garden.

Russian Empire.

Saint Petersburg.

August 1914. Mobilization of reserve enlisted personnel.

Guards cavalrymen ride down the street.

Soldiers and passers-by with bundles walk along the sidewalk.

A boy in the frame waves his cap.

Russian Empire.

Saint Petersburg.

Palace Square.

July 20, 1914. Participants of the Slavic demonstration stand on Palace Square with banners in Serbian: "Long live Serbia!", "The hour of Slavdom has struck".

Panorama to the right along the large demonstration standing in a long row.

In the frame is the lower part of the Alexander Column, the General Staff.

Medium shot of the large balcony of the Winter Palace.

Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna on the balcony of the Winter Palace.

The announcement of the imperial manifesto declaring war on Germany.

A panorama of the standing demonstrators waving their hats.

Part of the banner is visible: "God Save the Tsar".

A panorama to the left: the Admiralty is visible.

Again a balcony with the Emperor and Empress, they are leaving the balcony.

Another balcony with a group of courtiers.

Crowds of people against the backdrop of the General Staff.

Russian Republic.

Petrograd.

Autumn 1917. Anti-war demonstration.

Demonstrators carry anti-war slogans.

Soldiers march in columns along Nevsky, an orchestra in front of them, carrying banners: "Long live the nations that extend their hand to peace", "War is destruction, peace is creativity".

A huge number of soldiers are marching, horsemen are riding.

Banner: "The hour of peace in the world is striking". 1914-1917. Fleet.

Officers make a speech in front of a line of sailors on the deck of a ship.

RSFSR. Autumn-winter 1922. The Volga region.

Refugee camp.

Camel, boys.

Market, traders, merchants, children.

A peasant holds a handful of grain.

A health worker gives vaccinations.

Journalist Arthur Ransome and cameraman Georg Erkohl on a railway platform.

Peasants are sitting in a field by fires.

A table with a samovar, women and men are sitting.

A woman is cooking something in an iron can over a fire.

A panorama of people sitting by a fire.

The inscription: "The dead and the living next to each other", since the camp is located next to a cemetery.

Cemetery with crosses.

RSFSR. Railway station.

A train of boxcars is standing.

People are walking.

Groups of ragged children are standing.

A crowd at the market.

A gramophone.

A soap seller.

Obelisk with Freedom of the RSFSR, Medvedinovka, autumn-winter 1922. Northern Russia especially suffers from hunger.

The harsh winter makes transport very difficult.

A village in the snow.

People are walking, a sleigh with a barrel is moving.

Ragged children are standing.

A steamship is coming.

Sacks are being unloaded from the stationary steamship.

Petrograd.

A sleigh train loaded with sacks of grain is passing along the street.

Cameraman Georg Erkohl (a fat man with glasses) is behind the camera, filming street children warming themselves by the fire.

Portraits of street children.

Snowdrifts on the street.

People are walking along the sidewalk.

Women are clearing snow.

Children are riding in sleighs.

Lots of carts and people.