Bolsheviks Collection

Nestor Makhno
Anarchist leader who organised partisan groups to form the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine which opposed both Bolsheviks and Whites : he will die in exile in Paris. Date: 1919

Tsesarevich Alexei of Russia (1904-1918) seen studying in 1913. Devastatingly for his parents, Alexei suffered from haemophilia

Sergei Kirov, Fedor Raskolnikov and Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Sergey Mironovich Kirov (1886-1934), Russian Revolutionary leader (centre), with fellow-Bolshevik, Fedor Raskolnikov (1892-1939) (left) and the Georgian Bolshevik

Russian Refugee Camp at Mudros, Greece (Island of Lemnos), housing Russians driven out by the Bolsheviks following the 1917 revolution

Czech troops 1918
Czech troops in battle, skirmishing against the Bolsheviks on the outskirts of Ekaterinburg in 1918

War with Russia - 5
The long-drawn out battle of the Vistula ends in a crushing defeat of the Red Army by the Poles, seen here posing later in the year with guns taken from the bolsheviks

Funeral crowds in a street during Revolution, Russia
A large public gathering for a funeral during the Revolutionary period in Russia, with Bolshevik guards to keep order. Date: circa 1917

Group of Red Army soldiers
A group of Red Army soldiers, some sitting on a wooden cart, crowd around to catch up on news during the Civil War. Date: 1918

FRENCH HANG BOLSHEVIKS
Like other occupying forces the French treat the Bolsheviks with ruthless severity : two workers sympathetic to the Bolsheviks are hanged at Odessa. Date: 1918

Russian men in US Army coats, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Group photo of eleven Russian men (described as Bolsheviks) in US Army long coats, at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, USA, on 27 December 1918

Russo-German Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk 1918
Double page from The Illustrated London News, 12th January 1918, with photographs of the Bolshevist minister in London Maxim Litvinoff, Lenin

Martyred soldiers of Admiral Kolchak
Three dead soldiers belonging to the White Russian force of Admiral Kolchak in the Urals are put on display. The Bolsheviks made rapid progress during the summer of 1919 pushing the White Russian

STALIN IN 1917
Stalin, at the Sixth Congress of the Russian Social- Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) urges the necessity to prepare for an armed uprising. Date: August 1917

1919 / TSAR, POPE & BOYAR 1919 / TSAR, POPE & BOYAR
Workers oppressed by Tsar, Pope and Boyar (the bourgeois) - but now the Bolsheviks will put a stop to oppression... Date: 1919

Lenins Statue. Kerch. Ukraine
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Kerch. Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Russian revolutionary and politician. Statue

Lenins Statue. Feodosiya. Crimea
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Feodosiya. Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Russian revolutionary and politician. Statue

Petr Wrangel
PETR NICOLAEVICH WRANGEL Russian military commander in WW1, after Revolution opposed the Bolsheviks with some success but quarrelled with commander, retired to Yalta. Date: 1878 - 1928

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (1872-1918), formerly Princess Alix of Hesse, married Tsar Nicholas II in 1894 shortly before his accession to the throne

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924). Monument. Yalta
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924). Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician. Monument. Yalta. Ukraine

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924). Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician. Monument built by Pavel Bondarenko in 1957 for the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist

Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Statue. Backlighting
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Feodosiya. Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Russian revolutionary and politician. Statue. Backlighting

Russia / 1918 / Assembly
The Constituent Assembly, in which the Bolsheviks are a minority, meets for just one day before being suppressed. Date: January 1918

Russia / 1918 / Tribunal
Bolsheviks take a suspect to a Revolutionary Tribunal. Date: 1918

Russia / 1917 / Bank Safes
Bolsheviks inspect safe deposits in a bank. Date: 1917 - 1918

Bolshevik parade in a street during Revolution, Russia
Bolshevik parade in a street during the Revolutionary period in Russia. Date: circa 1917

Machine gun used by Bolsheviks during Revolution, Russia
Machine gun mounted on wheels, used by the Bolsheviks during the Revolutionary period in Russia. Date: circa 1917

Bolshevik activists in the street during Revolution, Russia
Bolshevik activists speaking to members of the public in the street during the Revolutionary period in Russia, said to be on 16 July 1917. Date: circa 1917

Ladies working in a Russian soldiers home under Bolsheviks
Those who suffer under the revolutionary regime - Russian ladies earning their living as cleaners I a home for soldiers. Scene showing upper class women employed in scrubbing

Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaievich (1905-1918), youngest child and only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna, formerly Princess Alix of Hesse

Tsar Nicholas II
The last photograph of Tsar Nicholas II. The Tsar poses for a photograph by a Soviet soldier in the woods at Ekaterinburg. The Tsar and his family were all murdered by Bolsheviks on 17th July 1918

Krupskaya at the Front
VLADIMIR LENINs wife Krupskaya at the front, promising the soldiers a better life under the Bolsheviks. Date: 1924

Aleksandra Kollonai
ALEKSANDRA MIKHAILOVICH KOLLONAI (nee Domontovich) Russian aristocrat who joined Bolsheviks, feminist, career diplomat : abandoned her conventional marriage. Date: 1872 - 1952

Princess Alix of Hesse
The Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna (Princess Alix of Hesse), soon to be bride of Emperor Nicholas II. They were married on the 26th November 1894 in the Grand Palace at the Winter Palace of Saint

General Denikins forces attacking Bolsheviks, Russia
General Denikins forces attacking Bolsheviks. Anton Ivanovich Denikin (1872-1947) served in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War and in the Russian Civil War. Date: circa 1917-1919

Bolshevik soldiers WWI
Different types of Bolshevik soldiers during World War I

Russian captives WWII
Captured Bolshevik soldiers in Finland are allowed regular and valued devotional hours that were regularly prohibited because of atheist policies within the Soviet regime

Crown jewels of Imperial Russia
The crown jewels displayed on a table surrounded by the bolsheviks who acquired them, following the demise of Tsar Nicholas II and his family

They ve Evidently Seem Me by Bruce Bairnsfather
A later version of a " Fragment from France" drawn by the famous World War One cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather for the Bystander magazine

Canadian dog teams, Russia 1919
Canadian dog teams and sleighs in the snowy landscape of North Russia. Canadian troops formed part of the allied intervention force fighting on the side of the anti-Bolsheviks during the Russian

Alexei of Russia during wartime
Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaievich of Russia (1904-1918) in field uniform. While other Royal children performed small engagements or were photographed to raise money for war charities

The Empress of Russia with her daughters
Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna (formerly Princess Alix of Hesse) photographed with her four daughters in 1913; from left, Grand Princess Olga, Tatiana, Anastasia and Maria

Kiev under the Poles
Kiev is occupied by a Polish force opposing the Bolsheviks. But the Red Army will counter- attack and drive them out again before they can start to enjoy their victory

Train Derailed
Train derailed by the Bolsheviks at the Tomsk station, no doubt for good reasons

1919 / TSAR, POPE & BOYAR
The workers oppressed by Tsar, Pope, and Boyar (bourgeois) - but now the Bolsheviks will put a stop to oppression

Moscow Meeting
Meeting in Strasnaya square, Moscow : the Bolsheviks seem to have won control, but the people still need to be persuaded that they are the answer to all their troubles

Palace after Kerensky
Damage and litter in the Winter Palace, Petrograd, after it is stormed by the Bolsheviks and Kerenskys provisional government ejected

Signs of Gunfire
Bullet-holes in a Moscow shop window testify to the fierce fighting which took place before the Bolsheviks took over the city

Moscow Street Fighting
Moscow is the scene of much fiercer resistance to the Bolsheviks than Petrograd

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