My dear lark (2000)

Quote by Nadezhda Plevitskaya.

The grove is illuminated by the sun.

A field with ripe wheat.

A horse is grazing in the field.

The vast expanses of southern Russia.

Villagers are mowing the grass.

Painting by K.S. Petrov-Vodkin "Mother".

Houses.

A rosehip bush.

Girls at the memorial sign to N. Plevitskaya.

Gramophone.

A record with a recording of N. Plevitskaya is playing.

Photograph of a wanderer.

Photograph of a girl rocking a cradle.

Photograph of a lying woman.

Ruins of a house.

Chronicle of 1900. Peasant houses.

Trees.

River.

Gramophone pipe.

Photograph by Nadezhda Plevitskaya.

Winter.

Snow-covered field.

Landscapes of the Kursk land.

Chronicle of 1900: Village huts.

Photograph of villagers.

Photograph of the hut of Akulina and Vasily Vinnikov.

Photograph of a peasant girl.

Girl in a folk costume.

Baby's cradle.

Interior of a village hut.

Chronicle of 1900-1916: A peasant ploughs the land.

A peasant, blessing himself, sows a field.

A girl runs across a ploughed field.

A girl in a folk costume.

A tree.

A horse with a sledge stands.

A resident of the village of Vennikovo tells the story.

Photo by N. Plevitskaya.

Landscapes of the environs of the village of Vennikovo.

Men are sitting in a clearing.

Residents of the village.

A woman in a folk costume.

Older women are dancing.

Young men are playing the balalaika and accordion.

Young people are dancing.

Girls are sitting on a log, young men are riding horses nearby.

An expert on Plevitskaya’s work tells the story.

On the table are photographs of Plevitskaya.

A cabinet with recordings of Plevitskaya’s songs.

A gramophone tube.

A gramophone brand.

A collection of gramophone records.

A photograph of N. Plevitskaya.

A gramophone record.

A poster for a concert of N. Plevitskaya.

The expert puts on a Plevitskaya record for listening.

A conversation between an expert on N. Plevitskaya’s work and the singer Alexandra Strelchenko, a contemporary performer of Plevitskaya’s repertoire.

A cabinet with recordings of Plevitskaya’s songs.

Alexandra Strelchenko is walking down the street.

Women in folk costumes.

An icon in the red corner.

A scene with the bride preparing for the wedding is being played out.

A photograph of N. Plevitskaya.

Winter.

Women in folk costumes at the gate of a house.

Wedding ceremonies.

Kursk landscapes.

A photograph of the composer G.V. Sviridov.

Fields.

A white church against the background of green fields.

Birch grove.

A girl in a folk costume is walking through the grove, with a bundle on her shoulder.

Fields, a road.

Birds are flying near nests on the sandy slope of a ravine.

Close-up - the girl's face next to a birch tree.

Road through a field.

Cemetery.

Kursk Convent.

Nuns in the convent.

Chronicle 1900-1916: Carousel at the fair.

Puppet theater on the square.

Booth performance at the fair.

Acrobats at the fair.

Gypsies on the square.

Photograph of Plevitskaya.

Chronicle 1900-1916: Dancers performing.

Photograph of the singer's mother.

Photograph of Plevitskaya with her husband, a ballet soloist at the booth.

Church.

Chronicle 1900-1916: A peasant enters a village house.

Wooden window frames.

Plevitskaya's record is spinning on the gramophone.

Gramophone pipe.

A samovar is boiling.

Peasants.

Carousel.

A boat on the river.

Photograph of the Nizhny Novgorod pier.

Swings at the fair.

Carts with goods arrive at the fair.

Photograph of Plevitskaya.

Chronicle 1900-1916: Spectators greet the artists.

Meeting L.V. Sobinov at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair.

Photographs of Sobinov in opera costumes.

Spectators greet Sobinov.

Chronicle 1934: Sobinov's funeral.

Chronicle 1900-1916: Views of Moscow.

Photograph of the creative intelligentsia of 1902. Photograph of N. Plevitskaya with friends.

Photograph of K.S. Stanislavsky and L.V. Sobinov.

Chronicle 1905: K.S. Stanislavsky.

Photograph of N. Plevitskaya.

Chronicle 1905. Yasnaya Polyana.

Leo Tolstoy.

Officers in a car with girls.

Photograph of a restaurant.

Photographs of Plevitskaya.

Chronicle 1905: Moscow. F.I. Chaliapin.

Landscape of central Russia.

Photograph of a recording of Shalyapin singing on a gramophone.

A gramophone in a modern apartment.

Interior of the F.I. Shalyapin Museum in Moscow.

Photograph of Shalyapin with a dedication dedicated to Plevitskaya.

Field.

Gramophone playing.

An elderly woman spins yarn on a spinning wheel.

Chronicle of 1900. Mill.

Yard of a peasant house.

Village street.

Peasant woman at a loom.

Photograph of a woman in a folk costume.

Chronicle of 1900-1916: Strips of linen drying on the grass.

Patterns on folk clothing.

Girl in folk costume.

Women washing clothes in the river.

Girl reading a letter.

Photograph of the royal family.

Winter.

Village house.

Photograph of the train accident of Alexander III. Photographs of Plevitskaya.

Photograph of Nicholas II. Portrait of Nicholas II. Plevitskaya's house in the village of Vennikovo.

A contemporary of Plevitskaya, a resident of the village of Vennikovo, tells the story.

Photograph of Plevitskaya, decorated with a wreath of daisies.

The outskirts of the village of Vennikovo.

Photograph of Plevitskaya.

Chronicle of 1914: World War I. Nurse at war.

Carrying the wounded.

Soldiers on the march.

Photograph of Plevitskaya's fiancé.

Soldiers attacking.

Explosions.

Tanks.

Soldiers' funeral.

Icon of the Savior Not Made by Hands.

The grave of the singer's mother.

Photograph of Plevitskaya's mother.

Girl with an icon.

Religious procession with the icon of the Sign of the Mother of God.

Church domes.

Believers bow to the icon of the Sign of the Mother of God.

Church dome.

Girl with an icon.

Church crosses behind barbed wire.

Photograph by G.V. Sviridov.

Sviridov's record.

Chronicle of 1919: Civil War.

Chronicle of 1922: People leaving for emigration.

Panorama of Russia.

Views of Paris.

Photographs by N. Plevitskaya.

Snow-covered fields.

Chronicle of 1925: Russian restaurant.

View of New York.

Memorial plaque.

Museum-studio of S. T. Konenkov.

Konenkov's son in his museum.

Sculpture of Plevitskaya, works by S. T. Konenkov.

Portrait of Rachmaninoff.

A record with Plevitskaya's songs is playing on a gramophone.

Photographs of Plevitskaya.

Photographs of Rachmaninoff.

Chronicle of 1937: Views of Paris.

Photograph of officers in exile.

Photograph of Plevitskaya in court.

Photographs of a girl in a village.

Chronicle of 1939-1945: Prison in France.

Airplanes bomb France.

Views of Paris.

Germans marching through Paris.

Winter in Russia.

Trees in the snow.

Photograph by Sviridov.

Frozen bush with berries.

The village of Vennikovo in the snow.

Photograph by Plevitskaya.

Panorama of the village.

Men walking with balalaikas and an accordion.

Photograph of Plevitskaya next to her portrait.

A resident of the village of Vennikovo.

A disc with songs by N. Plevitskaya.

A line for producing discs with music.

Young people examine discs with songs by Plevitskaya.

Chronicle of 1900: Peasant work.

A resident of the village listens to a gramophone with songs by Plevitskaya.

A candle burns next to the portrait of N. Plevitskaya.

Peasants mowing the grass.

Observatory.

Telescope.

Sunset.

Sky.

Field with grain.

Grand opening of the monument to N. Plevitskaya.

Church.

Panorama of the outskirts of the village of Vennikova.

A horse grazing in the field.

Photograph of Plevitskaya.

A girl blowing a whistle, a folk toy.

In front of her are various folk crafts.

Girls sitting on a log, young men nearby.

Elderly women in folk costumes sitting in a cart.

Folk ensembles playing and singing.

Panorama of a folk festivities.

A girl in a folk costume.

A white church on green hills.

An angel on a bell tower.