Russian Orthodox priests in ceremony in Kremlin grounds. Peasants, serfdom, poverty and backward conditions. Donets coal miners, barge hauling on canals. St Petersburg workers. 1912 Lena Gold fields strike.
Exiles trek in Siberia.
1915 street scenes, Moscow 1900's markets, bazaars, trams, railway station, street scenes. Kazakhstan in Tsarist times, veiled women. Pushkin Square, markets, Kremlin, Tsar, Russian Orthodox Priests, Tsarist officers. Return of injured soldiers after World War One. Unemployed after end of WW1, poverty.