How it was 31.01.1998 (1998)

The First Farmer in Russia, 1978. The main character of the issue is Alexander Leonidovich Orlovsky, the first Russian farmer, who moved with his family to Kirov in 1978. His entire farm fit into a container: two tons of grain and very few things.

In order to engage in agriculture in those years, it was necessary to join a collective farm, but Orlovsky, on the contrary, left the collective farm, as his grandfather once did, and began to work independently.

Orlovsky received the first State Deed of Land with the right to transfer by inheritance in modern Russia only in 1990, when farming became a topic of conversation throughout the country and quite loudly.

The local executive committee believed in the success of the Orlovsky family, did not object to the transfer of land to private ownership, so it was decided to formalize everything officially.

But the collective farmers were outraged, and a conflict began.

Orlovsky himself believes that the collective farmers were used for their own purposes by the foremen and party organizers, and ordinary people did not fully understand the situation and continued to raid his land.

The situation around farming changed quickly, just a year later farmers became full owners of their lands and in 1991 held their first official congress.

But this did not help Orlovsky, his farm was still set on fire, animals were killed, a well was filled with concrete, the collective farm herd was driven into the meadow, hay was stolen, and when his son Alexey, without waiting for the promised compensation for the damage caused, took a haystack from the collective farm field, the case was brought to court and inflated as if he had committed the crime of the century.

Alexander Leonidovich, his wife Raisa Nikiforovna, children Alexey, Tatyana and Nadezhda tell in detail about life on the farm, hard work, constant attacks from neighboring collective farmers and about the tyranny from which no one can, and most importantly, wants to protect them.

Also in the studio are the head of the Department of Agriculture in the Slobodskoy District Executive Committee Anatoly Stepanovich Neganov, former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR Ivan Stepanovich Silaev, one of the organizers of the first congress of farmers Yuri Dmitrievich Chernichenko, the author and director of the multi-part film about the Orlovsky family "Leshkin Meadow" (1996) Aleksey Ivanovich Pogrebnoy.

Chernichenko believes that the only goal of the attacks on Orlovsky is to ruin him and drive him away.

Silaev is outraged by the current situation and promises to personally contact the Minister of Agriculture to help sort out this issue.

The program was prepared using footage of the first congress of Russian farmers and fragments of the film "Leshkin Meadow".