Both painting and prayer (2004)

Savely Yamshchikov talks about icon painting.

Icons.

Parishioners.

Newsreel 1917-1920: removal of domes, burning of icons, looting.

Savely Yamshchikov.

Restoration of icon painting.

Installation of icons on the altar partition.

Scene 1 - "Born an Icon Painter".

Yamshchikov's monologue.

Landscape.

Photographs by Sergei Arkadyevich Vronsky.

Alexei Vronsky painting icons, his icons.

Yamshchikov.

Vronsky in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Troitskoye-Golenishchev, installing icons.

Icons.

Vronsky on a city street.

View of the Church of the Trinity.

The church inside, the icon painter.

Scene 2 - "This is my path".

Ilgiz Khanov at work.

Icons in Ilgiz's workshop.

Khanov enters the monastery.

Parishioners in the church.

Works in Khanov's workshop.

The icon painter leaves the workshop.

A man climbs onto the dome.

Pictures with iconostases.

Pages of a book about the Solovetsky Monastery.

Khanov on a boat, plane, train.

Landscape of the Solovetsky Monastery, views inside and outside the monastery.

Interior of the temple.

Work on the iconostasis.

Khanov paints an icon inside the temple.

Iconostasis.

Plot 3 - "Transfiguration".

Elena Lykova walks down the street.

Elena in the temple.

Elena paints an icon at home.

Icons.

The icon painter enters the chapel.

Conclusion.

Yamshchikov.

Yamshchikov walks along the road along the old wall.

Construction work, workers on the roof and dome of the temple.

Vronsky rides in a car.

View from the car.

Landscapes of reservoirs and monasteries.