The Age of Likhachev (2003)

View of a part of the Neva within the city limits of St.

Petersburg, sailing ships on the Neva during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the city.

Fragment of the monument to Peter I. People on the Neva embankment.

A sailboat sails along the Neva.

An old cannon fires.

A theatrical performance on the Neva.

People on the shore applaud.

Reconstruction of an episode of a naval battle during the Northern War.

Photographs of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of St.

Petersburg in 1903. Festive decoration of the wall of one of the buildings.

People in the square watch a performance of ballet dancers.

View of a part of the Alexander Column.

A large screen in the square.

View of a part of St.

Isaac's Cathedral, people's faces.

Performance of ballet dancers.

A large screen in the square.

Newsreel from 1991: people in the square greet Likhachev D.S. Likhachev speaks at a rally condemning the putsch.

General view of the rally.

Likhachev continues his speech.

Likhachev's granddaughter Kurbatova Z. enters one of the rooms of Likhachev's dacha; there is construction debris on the floor.

Interior of the former dining room.

Photograph of Likhachev.

Kurbatova talks about Likhachev (synchronously).

View from the dacha window.

Photograph of Likhachev and his wife.

Kurbatova goes into Likhachev's former office and continues her story (synchronously).

Part of the interior of the dacha.

Kurbatova walks through the rooms, picks up the books left by her grandfather, leafs through them and looks through them.

Text in a book about the Likhachev family.

Paintings depicting the streets of St.

Petersburg in the 18th-19th centuries (Likhachev's memoirs are heard synchronously).

Old charters from Likhachev's archive.

View of part of the Catherine Canal in St.

Petersburg.

Panorama of part of the Summer Garden.

Views of the streets of St.

Petersburg.

The building of the Institute of Russian Literature.

Photograph of Likhachev at the entrance to the institute.

View of the vestibule and stairs to the second floor.

Corridors of the institute.

Likhachev's study.

Books and documents on Likhachev's desk.

Photograph of Likhachev in his study.

Photograph of Likhachev among the institute's staff.

The institute's staff, sitting at the tea table, reminisce about Likhachev (synchronously).

Likhachev's portrait on the wall.

Diploma of an honorary citizen of St.

Petersburg in Likhachev's name.

Likhachev's diplomas and certificates of honor.

Professor Tvorogov talks about Likhachev (synchronously).

Desk and shelves with books in Likhachev's study, his portrait on the shelf.

Panorama of Likhachev's study.

Old books that Likhachev worked on.

Books written by Likhachev.

The ceremonial awarding of an academic degree to Likhachev in Great Britain.

Likhachev walks up to the dais.

Spectators in the hall.

Presentation of the academic badge to Likhachev.

Likhachev delivers a speech of thanks.

Professor Prokhorov G. talks about Likhachev (synchronously).

Likhachev’s portrait on the wall.

Prokhorov gives an interview (synchronously).

Prokhorov holds and examines the portraits of Likhachev he has drawn.

Graphic portraits of Likhachev.

Prokhorov shows portraits of people close to Likhachev, continues his story (synchronously).

Bulgarian stamps from Prokhorov’s collection.

Bulgarian mountain landscape.

View of a settlement in the mountains (from above).

View of the center of Sofia with the cathedral.

Professor of the Bulgarian University Ivanova K. talks about Likhachev (synchronously).

Photograph of Likhachev and Ivanova on a bookshelf.

Painting depicting a Bulgarian village.

Book on the coffee table.

Ivanova gives an interview (synchronously).

Text of an ancient manuscript.

Sheets of an ancient book with an Old Slavonic text.

Monument to Cyril and Methodius in Sofia.

General view of the building of the National Library in Sofia.

View of the building of the university in Sofia.

View of the Orthodox Cathedral in Sofia.

Monument to General M.D. Skobelev on one of the squares in Sofia.

Building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Photos of Likhachev with Bulgarian colleagues during his visits to Bulgaria.

Bulgarian landscapes, synchronously sounding memories of a Bulgarian journalist about meetings with Likhachev.

Houses in a Bulgarian village.

The journalist talks about Likhachev (synchronously).

Photo of Likhachev lying on the table among the letters.

The journalist continues her story about Likhachev (synchronously).

Landscapes of Bulgaria.

Panorama of an ancient castle.

View of the inner courtyard of the castle-museum.

Fragments of painting in a Bulgarian church.

Interior view of the church.

Icons, frescoes and iconostasis of the church.

Street in a Bulgarian mountain village.

Views of streets and houses.

Panorama of part of the settlement.

View of part of the seashore.

Houses on the coastal cliffs, panorama of the sea.

Old photographs in the album.

The ship sails along the Moscow Canal.

Old photographs in the album.

View of part of the museum complex in Kizhi.

Photograph of the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl.

Modern view of the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl.

The photographs in the album are replaced by views of Russian landscapes.

View of part of the passenger deck of the ship.

Searchlight on the ship.

Panorama of the bank of the Moscow Canal.

Orthodox churches on the bank.

Panorama from the roof of the church.

Grechukhin V. gives an interview (synchronously).

Churches on the river bank.

View of the town of Myshkin.

Houses and streets of Myshkin.

Grechukhin gives an interview (synchronously).

Images of mice.

Photograph of Likhachev, next to the toy mice he donated to the Mouse Museum.

Panorama of part of the museum exposition.

Museum exhibits.

Views of Likhachev's dacha.

A woman opens the gate and walks to the dacha.

Photographs of Likhachev at the dacha with his family.

Likhachev's granddaughter Zilitinkevich V. gives an interview (synchronously).

Reproductions of Modigliani paintings on the wall.

Zilitinkevich V. gives an interview (synchronously).

Photograph of Likhachev with his great-grandchildren.

Zilitinkevich climbs the stairs to the second floor of the dacha, continues his story (synchronously).

Interior of the bedroom at Likhachev’s dacha.

Zilitinkevich looks at a postcard given to his grandfather.

The sun shines through the foliage of the trees in the forest, a path leads to the dacha.

Photograph of Likhachev as a child.

Photographs of Likhachev in his youth.

Zilitinkevich continues his story about Likhachev (synchronously).

Photographs of prisoners of the Solovetsky camp.

Photograph of Likhachev during his time in the camp.

Likhachev talks about his arrest in 1928 (synchronously).

Photograph of Likhachev in the late 1920s.

Documents of Likhachev’s investigative case.

Zilitinkevich gives an interview (synchronously).

Cover of Likhachev’s investigative case.

Likhachev reads aloud the documents of his investigation file (synchronously).

The national flag of the Russian Federation flutters, a view of a part of the aft deck of the ship.

Likhachev's photographs.

A view of a part of the Solovetsky Monastery.

Likhachev on the deck of a ship during a trip to Solovki (Likhachev's memories are heard synchronously).

Newsreel from the late 1920s: a panorama of the Solovetsky camp.

A sign on the building of the Administration of Special Purpose Camps.

People on the deck of a steamship.

The ship's whistle blares.

Likhachev's face.

A religious procession on Solovki.

An employee of the Solovetsky Museum, O. Bochkareva, gives an interview (synchronously).

An album with Likhachev's notes in Bochkareva's hands.

A panorama of a part of the Solovetsky Monastery.

A drawing of the prison building in Likhachev's album.

Buildings on Solovki where prisoners were held.

Underground passages under the buildings.

Bochkareva talks about the Solovetsky camp (synchronously).

Views of underground corridors.

View from the window of an abandoned church.

Photographs of criminals playing cards (Likhachev’s memories are heard synchronously).

Likhachev’s article about criminals playing cards.

Likhachev talks about the article (synchronously).

Pages of the Solovetsky Islands magazine.

Likhachev continues his story (synchronously).

Cover of the Solovetsky Islands magazine.

Likhachev’s photograph.

Church buildings on the Solovetsky Islands, a truck driving by.

People praying in a church.

Clergy and parishioners reading prayers.

Faces of parishioners.

Candles burning.

Views of the Solovetsky Monastery.

Staircase in one of the buildings.

Peephole in the door.

Drawings by prisoners on the walls under the plaster.

Fragments of frescoed icons under the plaster.

Interior of one of the churches.

Panorama of part of Solovki at night.

A cat on the street.

View of one of the churches at night, panorama of part of the island.

Panorama of the room at Likhachev’s dacha, Zilitinkevich sitting at the table and giving an interview (synchronously).

Zilitinkevich V. gives an interview (synchronously).

Photographs of Likhachev during his participation in the conference in Edinburgh.

Zilitinkevich V. gives an interview (synchronously).

Photograph of Likhachev during rest.

Likhachev reflects on his life (synchronously).

Portrait of Emperor Paul I. Badge of the Order of St.

Andrew the First-Called.

Newsreel from 1998: Yeltsin B.N. presents Likhachev with the Order of St.

Andrew the First-Called in the Kremlin.

Likhachev’s granddaughter Kurbatova Z. walks through the park and reminisces about Likhachev (synchronously).

Memorial plaque on the wall of the house where Likhachev lived in his last years.

Kurbatova gives an interview (synchronously).

The landing and the elevator in the house where Likhachev lived, Kurbatova continues her recollections (synchronously).

The elevator rises.

Kurbatova gives an interview (synchronously).

Photographs of Likhachev.

View of part of the embankment in St.

Petersburg.

Building of the Institute of Russian Literature.

Premises of the Institute.

Likhachev's desk.

Newspaper reports of Likhachev's death.

Tombstones on the Likhachev family plot.

Likhachev's granddaughter Kurbatova Z. enters the room at the dacha, examines it.

Kurbatova looks out the window, gives an interview (synchronously).

Books stacked in piles, icon of Christ the Savior.

Papers and books on Likhachev's desk.

Photograph of Likhachev at his desk.

Solovetsky landscape.