General Shkuro (White Partisan) (2007)

Icon, lamps in front of the icon.

Cossack cemetery in the snow, crosses.

Mountain road, mountains in the snow.

Road, snow on the roadsides, trees in the snow.

Photo: White Guard officers, General Shkuro.

Newsreel of the early 20th century: Village, houses, people on the streets of the village.

Photo: G.F. Shkura – father of A.G. Shkuro; Cossacks.

Newsreel of the early 20th century: Street of a provincial town, people walking by, ladies in hats.

Photo: Anastasia Andreyevna – mother of A.G. Shkuro.

Newsreel of the early 20th century: Church.

Moscow Kremlin, carts going along the Kremlin wall.

Frozen Moskva River, wooden house near the Kremlin wall.

Red Square, monument to Minin and Pozharsky, people walking, cabbies passing, Spasskaya Tower, St.

Basil's Cathedral.

Iversky Gate, troops passing.

The Tsar Cannon, a carriage passes, a military man passes.

Cadets with officer mentors.

People walk along the bridge.

Dzhigitovka.

Photo: officers.

Newsreel 1914-1918: Cavalry.

Soldiers at rest.

Troops on the parade ground.

Photo: officers.

Newsreel of the early 20th century: Ball.

A couple dancing.

Caucasian dance.

The audience applauds.

Photo: officers on horses, Shkuro in the foreground; Shkuro with his wife in a carriage.

Newsreel of the early 20th century: People on the street, a church, a province.

Newsreel 1914-1918: Soldiers running past.

Winter landscape.

A cannon firing, explosions.

Soldiers trying to lift a fallen horse.

Cavalry galloping.

A train riding, landscapes (from the train).

Cavalry, soldiers, battles.

A line of prisoners passing by.

Soldiers in the trenches, resting.

Explosions, a soldier is running.

A soldier cuts a telegraph wire.

Galloping cavalry, explosions, soldiers are running, soldiers in the trenches.

Explosions, a tree falls.

Soldiers at a machine gun, explosions.

Officers, soldiers at machine guns.

Killed in a ravine.

Petersburg.

People in the streets, cars driving by, soldiers in the crowd.

Revolutionary rallies.

A trained elephant with a poster on its side, holding a flag with its trunk.

Moscow, the Kremlin, people in the street.

Crowd, slogans.

Nicholas II with officers.

Crowd in the square, military cordon.

Arrests of revolutionaries.

Provisional Government.

Kerensky among jubilant people.

Soldiers, troops passing by.

A train is riding.

Workers' demonstration, flags.

Tank.

Crowd of people.

Railway tracks, barrier, train.

Newsreel 1914-1918: Map of the front.

Officers, Cossacks at rest.

A detachment of the Caucasian army passes by.

Cannon fire.

Cavalry gallops.

Cavalry gallops through a village.

Soldiers at rest.

Revolutionary rallies, crowd with banners.

Meeting of armies, soldiers hugging.

Cavalry gallops.

Haystack, horse.

Horse drinks.

Eagle soars.

Mountains, sky, clouds.

Ruins.

Photo: General Shkuro; General Baratov.

Newsreel 1918-1923: People pass by, wounded soldiers.

Soldiers raise the flag on a house.

Soldiers dance.

Camels pass by, snow-capped mountains.

Soldiers walk.

Partisan shelters in the forest.

Port, emigrants in the port, a steamship sails away.

Steamships.

A steamship sails, water.

View from the train window: smoke, trees.

People in the village square, bazaar, horses.

Military rally, a torn flag fluttering.

A line of soldiers.

A man with a bandaged head speaks, soldiers listen.

Hands with grain.

Pouring grain into sacks.

People near the train.

Leaflets are thrown from the train.

Soldiers pass by.

Killed in the field.

Photo: Cossacks, soldiers in the square.

Newsreel 1918-1923: Horses galloping.

Horse's muzzle.

Soldier's legs.

Partisans in the forest.

Ears of corn in the wind.

Cossacks with horses, Cossack on horseback.

Cossack army on horseback.

Horse's eye - red.

Holy fool's face - disheveled hair, beard, crazy look - red.

Photo: General Shkuro.

Newsreel 1918-1923: Cavalry galloping across the field.

Feather grass in the wind.

Cavalry galloping through the village.

A detachment of White Guards enters a village.

Photo: Cossack army.

Newsreel 1918-1923: Cossack army in a village.

Galloping cavalry.

Explosions.

Destroyed city.

Corpses, people running, street children in Budenovka hats.

Soldiers walking in ruins.

Agitation train with the NDP "Crush the bourgeois and landowners forever", women with baskets near the carriage.

Summer stage, propaganda team, people listening.

Galloping cavalry.

Cossacks on horseback crossing a river.

Cavalry attack, tachankas, cannons, naked sabers.

Photo: Cossacks on the railroad tracks.

Newsreel 1918-1923: Prisoners near a train; a train loaded with artillery guns.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: Field, sunflowers, village street.

Woman with children.

Woman with a yoke.

House behind a wooden fence.

Man with children on horseback.

Woman with a wicker bag.

Thistle.

Field, hills, sky, clouds.

Newsreel from 1918-1923: Cavalry galloping.

Barbed wire.

Explosions, burning train.

Cavalry galloping.

Photo: corpses, people watching.

Newsreel from 1918-1923: Arrested people walking, accompanied by soldiers.

A child cries, holding on to a woman's skirt.

Soldiers sailing in boats.

Cossack atamans at a table with papers, bills.

White Guard officers, a priest blessing the soldiers.

Soldiers marching in formation, people watching.

People running after the train, throwing leaflets out of the carriage window.

Cossack and White Guard troops.

Cossack cadets marching.

Cartoon: a map-scheme of Kuban with troop movements indicated.

Soldier's ID. Newsreel 1918-1923: Sending to the front.

Detachments marching along the streets with music.

Photo: Shkuro in the hospital; Kornilov.

Newsreel 1918-1923: White Guard officers.

Cavalry galloping.

Cossacks on horses.

Soldiers in snow-covered fields, in shelter.

Climbing into an armored car, blizzard.

Snow-covered road, explosions.

Photo: General Shkuro.

Newsreel 1918-1923: Armored car with the NDP "To Moscow".

The armored car goes along the road.

Newsreel of the early 20th century: Moscow, the Kremlin, winter, carts go along the Kremlin wall.

Photo: General Shkuro.

River with snow-covered banks.

Road, snow, mountains.

Memorial plaque at the Cossack cemetery in memory of the Cossacks and their families shot on June 1, 1945. Cossack cemetery, crosses on graves.

Icon: face visible through frozen glass.