Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich Romanov (2010)

Sunrise landscapes of the Central Asian desert.

Inscription on the stones: "Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich".

Photo portraits of the Grand Duke.

Romanov's biographer N.K. Golender B. gives an interview (synchronously).

Photographs of Romanov N.K. in childhood, with his mother and father - Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich.

Portraits of Romanov's parents.

Portrait of Emperor Alexander II. Photographs of the Grand Duke's brothers and sisters.

Photographs of the Marble Palace in St.

Petersburg, Pavlovsk Palace, Strelna estate.

Photograph of the Grand Duke with his family, during his studies at the General Staff Academy.

Romanov N.K. after graduating from the Academy.

Historian Germanov V. gives an interview (synchronously).

Photograph of Romanov N.K. after graduating from the Academy.

A train goes between the hills.

View of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Railroad.

Photographs of views of Athens, Rome.

Illustrations from the lives of guards officers.

Photograph of Fanny Lear.

Golender B. gives an interview (synchronously).

Photograph of Lear against the backdrop of Parisian views.

Cancan at the Moulin Rouge.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

A horse-drawn carriage approaches the palace.

Photographs of Romanov N.K. and Lear against the backdrop of people dancing at a ball.

A painted portrait of Catherine II. Statues and paintings from the collection of Romanov N.K. on display at the Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan.

Portraits of Lear and Romanov N.K. in a newspaper, portraits of the Grand Duke’s parents.

Map of Turkestan.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: landscape of one of the Central Asian cities.

The Khan of Khiva gets into a carriage.

Germanov gives an interview (synchronously).

Newsreel from the early 20th century: desert landscapes.

Men dance in front of spectators sitting around them.

Faces of spectators and dancers.

General view of the circle with dancers.

Germanov gives an interview (synchronously).

Footage from the feature film: Emperor Alexander II sees off troops at the train station.

Footage of combat operations by Russian troops in the Khiva campaign, portrait of commander General Kaufman.

Paintings depicting combat operations.

Footage of combat operations.

Text of N.K. Romanov's letter to Lear.

Russian troops' combat operations, cavalry attacks.

Photograph of the Grand Duke at the end of the Khiva campaign.

Footage of combat operations.

Text of an entry from the Grand Duke's diary.

Photograph of N.K. Romanov.

Landscapes of Turkestan.

Photograph of the Grand Duke in the ceremonial uniform of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment.

Text of N.K. Romanov's letter to Lear.

Interior of an Orthodox church, candles are burning.

Views of St.

Petersburg in winter.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: a camel caravan enters the gates of a fortress in Khorezm.

Views of Khiva's neighborhoods.

General view of the old city (from above).

View of St.

Petersburg.

Portrait of Grand Duke Constantine.

Portraits of Alexander II and Nicholas I. Engravings and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Marble Palace.

Portraits of N.K. Romanov and Lear.

Germanov gives an interview (synchronously).

Text of Lear's memoirs.

Footage of the imperial exit at the Winter Palace.

Texts of Lear's memoirs in various publications in Russian and English.

Text of an entry in the diary of N.K. Romanov.

View of Palace Square in St.

Petersburg.

Newsreel from 1913: carriages drive along Palace Square.

A horse-drawn carriage travels along a steppe road.

Postcard with a view of Orenburg.

Portrait of N.K. Romanov during her stay in Orenburg.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Panorama of the desert.

Mazar in the desert.

Desert landscape.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Scientific works written by N.K. Romanov. in Orenburg.

Views of the Central Asian desert.

A camel caravan passes.

View of part of the Amu Darya (above).

Desert landscape.

Photographs of the Grand Duke and Emir of Bukhara.

Text of the letter of the Grand Duke to the Emir.

Interior view of the premises of the Emir's palace in Bukhara.

View of part of Bukhara.

View of part of the Amu Darya (above).

Sailing boats on the river.

Views of the banks of the Amu Darya.

A book by Professor Sorokin, a member of the expedition, about his journey to Central Asia.

A caravan passes through the desert.

Photographs of the streets of Orenburg.

Photographs of Romanov N.K. and his wife Von Dreyer N.A. Text of the resolution of the Synod on recognizing the marriage of the Grand Duke as illegal.

Game footage: Emperor Alexander II receives a report in the Winter Palace.

Photograph of Romanov N.K. and his wife.

Photograph of Alexander II with his sons.

Photographs of Alexander III. A train goes.

Photographs of Tashkent views in the 1880s.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: views of Tashkent neighborhoods.

An arba (cart) passes along the street.

People on the street.

People riding donkeys.

Views of the city bazaar.

A potter at work.

People praying in the square in front of the mosque.

Weavers at work in the street.

People loading goods onto camels.

A caravan leaving the gates.

Text of an entry in the diary of the Grand Duke.

Photographs of buildings and streets in the "European" part of Tashkent.

Newsreel from the 1920s: streets of Tashkent.

People riding donkeys along the street.

A woman cleaning a carpet in the yard of a house.

People on the bank of a canal, a girl collecting water.

Peaches on the branches.

People digging an irrigation canal in one of the villages.

Landscapes of the outskirts of Tashkent.

View of a part of the Iskander Canal in the Chirchik Valley, built with the participation of the Grand Duke in 1883-1885. Views of the settlement of Iskander in Uzbekistan.

Text of the entry in the diary of the Grand Duke.

Views of the Amu Darya.

Irrigation canals.

Peasants plough the land.

Views of the village of Iskander, founded by the Grand Duke.

Streams of mountain streams.

Mountain stream on the slope.

Newspaper reports and photographs of charity events with the participation of Romanov N.K. Photograph of the residence of the Grand Duke in the center of Tashkent.

Text of the entry in the diary of the Grand Duke.

Photographs and drawings of the house of the Grand Duke.

Modern view of the building.

Interiors of the rooms in the house of Romanov N.K. Decoration of the walls of the halls in the house. "Oriental" rooms in the house.

Outbuildings and outbuildings.

Fragments of decoration of the house of the Grand Duke (Reception House of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan).

Fragments of the decoration of the premises.

Paintings on the walls.

Carvings on the walls and doors.

An art critic gives an interview (synchronously).

Fragments of the palace room decorations.

An art critic gives an interview.

Newsreel from the 1910s: construction of irrigation canals in Central Asia.

The Nicholas I Canal flowing from the Syr Darya.

Photographs of the canal.

Photographs of houses in the villages that emerged along the canal in the late 19th century.

General views of the canal.

Photographs of Russian settlers.

Views of buildings and structures of the Golden Horde of the Hungry Steppe estate founded by the Grand Duke.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Photograph of D.E. Chusovitina, the second wife of the Grand Duke.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Text of the entry from the diary of the Grand Duke.

Photograph by V. Khmelnitskaya.

The building of the church in the Trinity settlement near Tashkent.

Icons and candles in the house chapel of the Grand Duke's palace in Tashkent.

Stills from the film: a general with his retinue is walking.

Text of the entry from the diary of the Grand Duke.

Scenes from the feature film: policemen and gendarmes pass by.

A passenger train approaches.

Landscapes outside the carriage window.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Scenes from the feature film "January 9": troops shooting workers of St.

Petersburg.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: horse-drawn carriages leaving the palace gates in Tashkent.

The imperial family during their stay in Tsarskoye Selo.

A photograph of the Grand Duke in a turban.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: horse-drawn carriages leaving the palace gates in Tsarskoye Selo.

View of a part of the exposition of the Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan, paintings and statues from the collection of the Grand Duke.

Examples of wood carving.

Items from the collection and paintings collected by the Grand Duke.

Fragments of the building of the palace of the Grand Duke in Tashkent.

The daughter of Khajar, a ward of the Grand Duke, gives an interview (synchronously).

A watch given by the Grand Duke to his ward.

Stills from the film: a merchant closes his shop, a policeman passes by.

Granddaughter Hadjar gives an interview (synchronously).

Portrait of Hadjar in old age.

Granddaughter Hadjar gives an interview (synchronously).

Water flows along the canal bed.

The wheels of a water mill rotate.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: people clear the bed of a ditch, weigh cotton.

A workshop of a cotton processing plant in Tashkent.

Workers in the workshop of the plant.

Germanov gives an interview (synchronously).

Photographs of buildings and interiors of the libraries founded by the Grand Duke.

Germanov gives an interview (synchronously).

Buildings near the palace of the Grand Duke in Tashkent.

Germanov gives an interview (synchronously).

Photograph of the palace building.

Photographs of the visit of the Grand Duke's younger brother Konstantin Konstantinovich to Tashkent.

Photographs of the parents of the Grand Duke and his sister Olga, the Greek queen.

Text of the entry in the diary of the Grand Duke for October 5, 1913. Newsreel from 1912-1913: Nicholas II receives bread and salt.

Arrival of the Emir of Bukhara, Seyyid Alim Khan, in St.

Petersburg.

Celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov.

General view of Palace Square.

Nicholas II and the Empress on the balcony of the Winter Palace.

People are building an irrigation canal.

Photographs of a part of the Romanov irrigation canal and a memorial stele in honor of the commissioning of the canal.

Photographs of the opening of the canal.

Photograph of the Grand Duke and his wife in 1916. Palace of the Grand Duke in Tashkent.

Paintings collected by the Grand Duke.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Portrait of D.E. Chusovitinova.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Photographs of buildings in Khiva built by the Grand Duke.

Portrait of N.A. Dreyer-Iskander.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1932: views of the bazaar in Tashkent.

Photograph of Dreyer-Iskander at the bazaar in Tashkent.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Portraits of Natalia Alexandrovna Iskander, granddaughter of the Grand Duke.

Golender gives an interview (synchronously).

Text of the entry in the diary of the Grand Duke for December 1, 1917. Newsreel from 1917: revolutionary events in Petrograd in March 1917. Revolutionary demonstration in Tashkent.

Units of the Red Army operating in Central Asia.

A galloping cavalry squadron.

Photographs of cinema buildings built by the Grand Duke.

Newsreel from 1917: people on the streets of Tashkent.

People's faces.

Photographs of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Tashkent, near the fence of which Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich was buried.

Portrait of the Grand Duke.

Inscription on stones in the desert: "Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich".

Sunset.