A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Mikhail Alekseyev
as Self (with Tsar Nicholas) (archive footage)
Alexei Brusilov
as Self (Consults with Another Officer) (archive footage)
Nikolai Chkheidze
as Self (Chairman, 1st Session, Petrograd Soviet) (archive footage)
Kaiser Franz Joseph
as Self (Reviews Troops) (archive footage)
Vera Figner
as Self (People's Will Party, in Open Car) (archive footage)
Grand Duchess Anastasia
as Self (archive footage)
Grand Duchess Marie
as Self (archive footage)
Grand Duchess Olga
as Self (archive footage)
Grand Duchess Tatiana
as Self (archive footage)
Aleksandr Guchkov
as Self (archive footage)
Iliodor
as Self (Monk, Rasputin's Rival) (archive footage) (as Illiodor)
Aleksandr Izvolsky
as Self (Ambassador to France, Gets in Carriage) (archive footage)
