Plot synopsis

This series covers the period from April 3, 1917 (when Lenin arrived in Petrograd and announced his famous "April Theses") to October 25, 1917 (the capture of the Winter Palace). The film contains little-known details of the revolution, from which a completely different picture of the October Revolution is constructed, unfamiliar to viewers.
The film features Academician Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, Director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.N. Sakharov, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin, writers Boris Vasiliev and Anatoly Pristavkin, Director of the Foundation for Effective Politics Gleb Pavlovsky and Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences E. Carrère d'Encausse.

Commentaries

Сценарии телесериала «Исторические хроники с Николаем Сванидзе», с 1913го по 1933 год. [Scénarios de la série télévisée « Chroniques historiques avec Nikolaï Svanidzé », de 1913 à 1933], Marina ZHUKOVA, Амфора, 2014

Script in English

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Historical Chronicles with Nikolay Svanidze, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026

- Lenin in Russian and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025

Photos, videos, texts

Vladimir LENINE (Владимир Ильич ЛЕНИН) 1870-1924


Lev TROTSKI (Лев ТРОЦКИЙ) 1879-1940