The film tells about the life and work of the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, about the last years of his life in Klin.
Graphic portrait of P.I. Tchaikovsky in profile.
Notes in Tchaikovsky's handwriting on the cover of the score of Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique".
Vase of flowers on a table.
Table on the lantern balcony of the Tchaikovsky House-Museum in Klin, window with multi-colored glass.
Path in the garden.
View of the Tchaikovsky House-Museum in Klin.
One of the last portraits of Tchaikovsky.
Grand piano in Tchaikovsky's house, interiors of the rooms of the house-museum.
Desk by the open window, sheets of music score on the table.
Wicker chairs on the veranda.
Summer landscapes of the environs of Klin.
View of the Tchaikovsky House-Museum in Klin.
Miniature portraits of Tchaikovsky's parents.
Tchaikovsky's drawing of himself as a child in Votkinsk.
Photograph of Tchaikovsky as a child with his parents, brothers and sisters.
Tchaikovsky and his mother in a photograph.
Portrait of Tchaikovsky's mother on the wall in an oval frame.
Clouds cover the sky.
Photograph of Tchaikovsky in his youth, full-length.
Landscape before a thunderstorm.
Photographs of ancestors on the wall of one of the rooms in the Tchaikovsky house-museum.
Portraits and photographs of Tchaikovsky in his youth, surrounded by his friends.
Photographs of Tchaikovsky's father in a coffin on the walls in the composer's house-museum.
Rain floods the veranda of the house in Klin.
Rain-flooded paths in the garden.
Summer landscapes and views of the park in Klin.
Tchaikovsky's desk by the open window, view from the window.
A sheet of handwritten musical score with Tchaikovsky's notes.
A symphony orchestra performs a work by Tchaikovsky in the hall of the St.
Petersburg Philharmonic (top).
Photograph of opera singer Desiree Artaud.
Interior of the living room in the Tchaikovsky house-museum in Klin.
Photograph of Tchaikovsky and his wife, A.I. Milyukova.
Photo portraits of Tchaikovsky and his wife.
Photograph of N.F. von Meck with her daughter on Tchaikovsky's desk.
Tchaikovsky's letters addressed to von Meck.
Portraits of N. F. von Meck and Tchaikovsky, with the texts of the correspondence between Tchaikovsky and von Meck playing in the background.
Letters from von Meck to Tchaikovsky.
A photograph of von Meck on the wall of one of the rooms in the house in Klin.
Letters and a sheet of music score on the desk.
A symphony orchestra performing a piece by Tchaikovsky (above).
1992
Moscow region Saint Petersburg
Summer
Sculptural image of a crowing rooster on a table in the Tchaikovsky House Museum in Klin.
Interiors of rooms in the Tchaikovsky House Museum, a desk by the window.
Sheets of Tchaikovsky's music notebook with sketches and drafts of scores.
Clock face.
Sheets of music score on Tchaikovsky's desk, a photo portrait of Tchaikovsky, Tchaikovsky's pince-nez on the table.
The word "Death" among Tchaikovsky's notes on a sheet of music paper.
Interior of the living room and rooms in Tchaikovsky's house in Klin.
Desk in Tchaikovsky's study.
Photograph of Tchaikovsky.
Performance of Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony by the symphony orchestra in the hall of the St.
Petersburg Philharmonic.
Chandeliers under the ceiling of the auditorium.
Path leading to the Tchaikovsky House Museum in Klin.
Painted portrait of Tchaikovsky.
Suitcases and a coat on a hanger in the Tchaikovsky House Museum.
View of Tchaikovsky's house in Klin.
Sculptures on the roof of St.
Isaac's Cathedral in St.
Petersburg.
Fragment of the openwork cast-iron grating.
Sculptures on the edge of the roof of the Winter Palace.
Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony in the program of the First Symphony Assembly on October 16, 1893. A friendly caricature of Tchaikovsky.
Views of the main staircase in the building of the Assembly of the Nobility, where Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony was performed.
The symphony orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony in the hall of the St.
Petersburg Philharmonic, a circular panorama of the empty hall.
Tchaikovsky's death mask.
Figure of an archangel with a cross on the Alexander Column on Palace Square in St.
Petersburg.
Sculptural image of the Virgin Mary.
Cobblestones.
Fragment of the monument to Tchaikovsky.
Inscription on the musical line in Tchaikovsky's hand: "The End of the Symphony".
1992
Moscow region Saint Petersburg
Summer