Summary

Ceremonial funeral for victims of the February Revolution in St. Petersburg, Russia

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 7665
Clip SR004636_01_14.mov
Date 4/5/2017
Title Ceremonial funeral for victims of the February Revolution in St. Petersburg, Russia
Description [March 23, 1917 Old-Style calendar; April 5, 1917 New-Style] A marching band with numerous dignitaries walking past during a ceremonial funeral for victims of the February 1917 Russian Revolution (ceremony organized by the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies) / men carrying a coffin topped with flowers; cameramen cranking their machines at the top / Title card: "As each coffin is lowered into the grave, a salute is fired from the Fortress of Peter and Paul indicated by the waving of the white flag" / The coffin is lowered into the grave
Country Russia
City St Petersburg

Keywords

archival
newsreel
funerals
graves
coffins
dignitaries
marching bands
flowers
cameramen
movie cameras
rare footage
ceremonies
gun salutes
crowds
Russian Revolution
Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldiers Deputies
burials
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