Rarely-seen changing of the guard ceremony at Kremlin

1. Pull out from the Kremlin tower to wide of the Red Square 2. Marching soldiers 3. Soldier holding rifles 4. Soldiers swinging rifles 5. Crowd 6. Soldiers marching as part of ceremony exercises 7. Woman taking photo 8. Guards riding horses in circular pattern as part of ceremony 9. Various of guards on horses swinging sabres (swords) as part of ceremony exercise 10. Horse exercises in circular pattern as part of ceremony 13. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vox pop, Konstantin, visitor to Moscow: "It is very interesting. We came here not in vain. We'd like to watch the guards mounting. The last time we were here was a long time ago when there was Mausoleum guard. This is the first time we have seen it. We came here not in vain. There are horses and very orderly exercises". 14. Guards leaving Red Square STORYLINE: Soldiers of the Russian Kremlin Guard, gave the public a rare glimpse of a changing of the guard ceremony in Moscow's Red Square on Saturday. In uniforms, designed to resemble Russian military uniforms used at the time of Czar Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor, the soldiers performed a drill with bayonet-mounted rifles. Then cavalry guards wearing gold epaulettes, hats topped by white plumes and armed with sabres rode around the square on horseback. Czar Nicholas II and his family were killed in 1918 by the Bolsheviks who seized power in the 1917 revolution. During the communist era the Change of Guard ceremony was replaced with goose-stepping Soviet guards outside Lenin's Mausoleum. Tourists who tried to capture the action on video, seemed pleased with the show. Keyword-military You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/6ac6c96b93ae8b7dd034afd5cbc6c603 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork