The film is based on the materials of Avvakum's autobiographical book "Life". The film shows the schism in the Orthodox Church through the life of an active participant in these events, Archpriest Avvakum.
Old books are burning.
A punk band is performing.
A ruined church.
A large elderly village priest is drinking tea.
The book "Life" written by Archpriest Avakum.
Pustozersky region, the Pechera River.
Cemetery.
A wasteland with white bones lying on it.
Archpriest Avakum spent his last years here in an earthen prison.
Avakum's open book "Life" is open.
A village in Nizhny Novgorod.
Children are swimming in the river.
Avakum was born somewhere here.
Children are fishing.
Panorama of the Nizhny Novgorod lands.
A log village house.
A girl is carrying water from a well in buckets on a yoke.
A clearing with a grave with a cross on it.
A village church.
Parishioners are waiting for the service to begin near the church.
A church on the top of a hill.
A church painted in ancient times.
Paintings on the walls.
The bell tower of Ivan the Great.
The Upper Savior Cathedral.
The Assumption Cathedral.
A painting depicting Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Nikon.
Portrait of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
Patriarch Nikon.
Paintings depicting priests discussing church reforms.
Paintings depicting the persecution of Avakum and his followers by the church and secular authorities.
An icon broken in half.
Orthodoxy, Split
Archpriest Avakum. Patriarch Nikon. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
Moscow Nizhny Novgorod Region Komi Republic
Clouds float across the sky at sunset.
Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles in the Kremlin.
Amvrosiev Nikolaevsky Dudin Monastery.
Assumption Cathedral.
Cathedral Square.
Ivan the Great Bell Tower.
Painting by V. Surikov "The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak".
Alternating frames with views of Siberia.
Cross on a grave in a field.
River.
Forest.
Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery.
Portrait of Patriarch Nikon.
Image of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
Old image of the Kremlin.
Painting depicting the boyars.
Portrait of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
Assumption Cathedral.
Cathedral Square.
Domes of the Upper Savior Cathedral.
Interior of the cathedral.
Paintings in the cathedral.
Painting with a view of old Moscow with the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin.
Book of Archpriest Avakum "Life".
Old engravings of Moscow life.
Painting by V. Surikov "Boyarynya Morozova".
Portrait of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
Views of the Russian North.
Wooden house in the north.
Broken icon.
Orthodoxy, Split, Autocracy
Archpriest Avakum. Patriarch Nikon. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Voivode Afanasy Pashkov. V. Surikov
artist.
Moscow Nizhny Novgorod region Siberia Pechora
Cathedral Square of the Kremlin.
Sunset in the north of Russia.
Solovetsky Monastery.
Towers and walls of the Solovetsky Monastery.
An old book about the history of the Solovetsky Monastery.
Miniatures from this book, which show the work of the monks on the territory of the monastery.
The monks did not accept the teachings of Nikon.
Miniature from the book, showing the siege of the monastery by the tsar's troops.
The execution of the monks.
Miniature, which depicts the death of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich three days after the suppression of the uprising.
Portrait of the new Tsar Feodor Alexeevich.
The bell tower of Ivan the Great on Cathedral Square in Moscow.
The interior of the Archangel Cathedral.
The royal tomb.
The iconostasis of the Archangel Cathedral.
A wooden frame, in the same one that Archpriest Avakum and his associates were burned.
Panorama of the north of Russia.
Bones whiten in a clearing.
Northern sky.
Image of Avakum.
Close-up of hands holding a candle.
Orthodoxy, Split, Monasteries
Archpriest Avakum. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Tsar Fedor Alekseevich.
Moscow Komi Republic
Cathedral Square of the Kremlin. Solovetsky Monastery.