The film is dedicated to the Petrograd Metropolitan Veniamin was shot by the Bolsheviks in the film uses newsreel footage of World War I, February revolution of 1917, famine in the Volga region in 1921, confiscation of church property, the church council in 1925.
Views of St.
Petersburg (Leningrad): streets, buildings, prison "Crosses", the building of the Leningrad Philharmonic.
Interview with the president of the St.
Petersburg Theological Academy protoireya Sorokina, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga John Leningrad Choral Synagogue Rabbi Efim Levitin.
Key words
Christianity.
City.
The First World War.
The February Revolution.
Economic policy.