The film tells about the Moscow period of V.I. Lenin's life in 1918-1924.
Clouds in the sky, the sun above the horizon.
Views of the autumn park in Gorki, smoldering autumn leaves.
Panorama of a part of the wall of a house in Gorki.
A passenger plane is landing.
Panorama of one of the districts of Moscow (from above).
Views of Moscow, panoramas of city blocks.
Monument to V.I. Lenin on Oktyabrskaya Square.
Panoramas of the autumn park in Gorki, gazebo with columns.
House in Gorki behind tree trunks.
Photographs of V.I. Lenin, Lenin's secretary L. Fotieva.
Photographs of the professors who treated Lenin, doctors in lab coats and gauze bandages (combined shots).
Memorial ward in Botkin Hospital, where Lenin was treated after the removal of a bullet in April 1922. Spring landscape outside the window.
Branches of a blossoming apple tree.
Dandelions in the meadow (panorama), house in Gorki.
A bee on an apple tree blossom.
A photograph of Lenin on a walk in Gorki in 1922, with the memoirs of Fotieva and Krupskaya and fragments of Lenin’s correspondence heard in the background.
A photograph of Lenin at a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars in 1922, against the backdrop of an empty meeting room (combined photography).
A photograph of Lenin against the backdrop of telephones and the interior of his office (combined photography).
A desk lamp on in Lenin’s office.
The interior of Lenin’s office in the Kremlin (darkened).
A photograph of Lenin.
The interior of Lenin’s apartment museum in the Kremlin.
A panorama of part of the St.
Andrew’s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace during the meeting of the 3rd Congress of the Comintern on June 22 – July 12, 1921. Lenin, sitting on the steps by the rostrum, is preparing to deliver a speech.
Lenin speaking at a meeting of the 3rd Congress of the Comintern (still frames).
A blotting paper on Lenin’s desk and the personal letterhead of the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars.
Grandfather clock in Lenin's office.
Desk in Lenin's office.
Telephone with the receiver removed.
Clouds running across the sky.
Newsreel from 1918: German troops on the march.
German troops marching along a Kyiv street.
A tram passes through one of the squares of Petrograd.
An artillery crew rolls a gun into position during the defense of Petrograd in 1919. Photograph of Lenin among members of the first Soviet government in 1918. Photo portraits of Lenin.
Lenin Vladimir Ilyich - statesman and political figure
1985
Moscow, Petrograd, Kyiv
Autumn, Summer, Spring
The drawing of the bridges on the Neva (fast motion).
View of the Moscow Kremlin at night.
Views of the Moscow Kremlin, domes of cathedrals.
Views of Moscow from the Kremlin wall.
Photograph of V.I. Lenin with the poet Demyan Bedny.
A hammer strikes the bell of the Kremlin clock against the backdrop of Moscow neighborhoods.
Panorama of the belfry of the Kremlin chimes (from the inside).
Interior view of part of the Column Hall of the House of Unions.
Panorama of part of the Moscow Kremlin at night, views of the Moscow Kremlin.
The sun comes out from behind the domes of cathedrals.
View of the Moscow Kremlin in the morning from the Moskva River.
Interiors and frescoes of the Faceted Chamber.
Fragments of paintings in the Faceted Chamber, images of Orthodox saints.
Doors decorated with carvings open.
Interiors of halls of the Grand Kremlin Palace, chandeliers under the ceiling.
Enfilade of rooms of the palace.
Decorations on the walls of the halls.
Interiors of rooms and halls of the Grand Kremlin Palace, images of the Order of St.
George.
View of the main staircase of the Grand Kremlin Palace, painting of Lenin speaking.
View of St.
Basil's Cathedral, portrait of Lenin on the GUM building.
View of part of the Moscow Kremlin (top).
The national flag of the USSR over the Kremlin.
Newsreel: an artillery battery fires a funeral salute on the day of Lenin's funeral, January 27, 1924. Fights with anarchists on the streets of Moscow in 1918. Machine-gun crew on the sidewalk.
Entrance to the Bolshoi Theater during the 5th Congress of Soviets in July 1918. Distribution of weapons.
Delegates walk through the square to the Bolshoi Theater for a session of the congress, interspersed with contemporary footage of the fountain in front of the Bolshoi Theater.
Delegates at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater during the verification of mandates.
Sverdlov Ya.M. at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater before the start of the congress.
Congress delegates on the steps at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.
People at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater.
Cover of the first Constitution of the RSFSR. Views and panoramas of districts and the center of Moscow at night.
Fireworks over the Kremlin.
Sverdlov Yakov Mikhailovich - statesman and political figure
1985
Moscow
Summer, Spring
A poster with a portrait of Lenin on the wall of one of the high-rise buildings in Moscow.
Cars on one of the streets of Moscow.
Panorama of a part of the embankment of the Moskva River.
A monument to Lenin in the park on Pavlovskaya Street in front of the checkpoint of the Vladimir Ilyich Moscow Electromechanical Plant.
Panorama and views of the park.
Fragments of a photograph of Lenin's speech to the delegates of the 1st All-Russian Congress on Education on August 28, 1918. A ticket to the rally on August 30, 1918, issued to Lenin.
Photograph of the First Secretary of the Moscow Committee of the RCP(b) Zagorsky.
Photographs of T. Lyudvinskaya and Lenin, the text of her memoirs is heard in the background.
Pleasure boats on the Moskva River in the center of Moscow.
Views of Moscow streets, rain, passers-by under umbrellas.
A monument to Lenin in the rain, flashes of lightning.
Photographs by Ya.M. Sverdlov, N.K. Photographs of the doctors who operated on Lenin after he was wounded at the Mikhelson plant.
Photograph by M.I. Ulyanova.
Interiors of Lenin's Kremlin apartment.
View of the Spasskaya Tower.
View of part of the Moscow Kremlin in the early 20th century (newsreel).
Photographs of Lenin reading the Pravda newspaper at his desk on October 16, 1918, photographs of the manager of the affairs of the Council of People's Commissars V.D. Bonch-Bruyevich.
Photographs by A.V. Lunacharsky and Lenin (combined photography).
Gliders in flight.
View of Red Square during the May Day demonstration (top).
Flag with a portrait of Lenin.
Hot air balloon in the sky.
View of part of the embankment in winter, a photograph of Lenin appears (combined photography).
Photographs of Lenin against the background of the interiors of his office (combined photography).
View of the Tretyakov Gallery (top).
Monument to P.M. Tretyakov.
Memorial plaque with the text of the decree on the nationalization of the Tretyakov Gallery.
Expositions of the Tretyakov Gallery.
Statues and paintings in the exposition of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, with quotes from Lenin about art heard in the background.
Newsreel from 1920: actress M. N. Ermolova at the entrance to the Maly Theater on the day of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of her creative activity on February 16, 1920. Faces of artists and fans congratulating Ermolova.
Ermolova, holding a bouquet of flowers in her hand, delivers a speech of thanks.
View of part of the Maly Theater building.
People reading a theater playbill.
Car traffic on Sverdlov Square.
Panorama of the square in the evening.
View of part of the Bolshoi Theater building.
Performance of the Borodin String Quartet in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, views of the hall.
Panorama of the buildings of TsUM and the Bolshoi Theater in the daytime.
View of part of the center of Moscow in the area of Sverdlov Square (from above).
Ermolova Maria Nikolaevna -- theater actress
1985
Moscow
Winter, Summer
View from the window of the Lenin Museum-Apartment in the Kremlin.
Newsreel: Lenin speaking, standing at the window of his office during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. Views of the Moscow Kremlin.
A car on the territory of the Kremlin.
Views of Kalanchevskaya Square in the daytime and at night (from above).
Faces of people riding the carousel in Sokolniki.
Rides in Sokolniki Park.
Newsreel: faces of street children shivering from the cold.
Distribution of food to children, alternating with contemporary footage of rides on rides and children relaxing in the park.
A boy with a piece of bread.
Parents with sick children on the streets.
Adults with children pass by.
View of the park.
Swans in a pond.
Newsreel: one of the first units of the Red Army marches along a city street in 1918. A brass band plays.
The movement of one of the columns of the Peace March, faces of the marchers.
Participants in the march chant slogans and carry banners.
Panorama of one of the stadium stands during an anti-war rally in Moscow.
View and panorama of the rally, banners with anti-war and anti-fascist slogans.
Corridor of the National Hotel.
Doors of the hotel rooms.
Interiors of one of the rooms.
Sheets of the manuscript of Lenin's work "The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Power".
Checkpoint of the Likhachev Moscow Automobile Plant.
Assembly of cars on the conveyor.
Production processes in the workshops, workers' faces, interior views of the factory workshops.
Rolling mills at work.
Views of Moscow streets and avenues early in the morning.
Views of buildings and streets of Leningrad (day and night shooting).
Landscapes of the Neva, bridges across the Neva.
View of the spit of Vasilievsky Island.
Faces of workers in the steel foundry, production processes.
The text of the "Law on Labor Collectives" published in the newspaper "Pravda" lying on the table, the faces of the participants in the production meeting.
Lenin Vladimir Ilyich - statesman and political figure
1985
Moscow, Leningrad
Summer, Winter
Steelworkers at the furnace.
Meeting of the plant's Labor Council, faces of the meeting participants.
High-rise welder at the construction site.
A bricklayer lays bricks.
Civil engineers on one of the floors of the building under construction.
The face of a builder installing a concrete structure.
Installation of a concrete structure.
Panoramic photograph of Moscow in the early 20th century.
Photographs of streets, squares, and markets of Moscow in the early 20th century.
Fragments of Moscow churches.
Monuments of ancient Moscow architecture.
Views of old streets and mansions of Moscow.
Views of modern and ancient Moscow (a kaleidoscope of images in a frame).
Embankments and bridges across the Moskva River, traffic.
Views of new multi-story apartment buildings.
View of the Crimean Bridge.
Monument to A.S. Pushkin.
People resting on benches near the monument.
Faces of Muscovites.
View of a high-rise building and the Ostankino TV Tower.
Views of the center of Moscow (from above).
The names of the classics of Marxism and revolutionary movement figures on the Romanov Obelisk in the Alexander Garden.
Photograph of Lenin.
Interior of Lenin's room in the Kremlin apartment (360-degree panorama).
Interiors of Lenin's office in the Kremlin, Lenin's desk.
The table lamp goes out.
Desk by the window of the house in Gorki.
Panorama of the Moscow Kremlin and part of Red Square, Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square, changing of guards at the entrance to the mausoleum.
Photograph of Lenin and his entourage inspecting the formation of Vsevobuch troops on Red Square during the parade on May 25, 1919.
1985
Moscow
Summer, Winter