Central Russian landscape.
GAME ROUND DANCES. Women in folk costumes make a goat from a skin for a round dance.
The village of Dorozovo, Bryansk region.
The villagers perform a round dance "The goat went for water".
Game round dance in the village of Sorokino, Kaluga region.
Round dance in the village of Podbuzh'e.
Folk life, Holidays, Folklore, Rural settlements, Art
Bryansk region Kaluga region
LAMENTS AND TALES. The village of Shotovo, Arkhangelsk Region.
Cemetery.
Panorama of the crosses on the graves.
A mourner cries at the grave.
Ritual lamentation performed by the mourner Kukushkina (off-screen).
Storyteller A. T. Golubeva tells fairy tales (synchronously), sitting on the porch of a house in the village of Krutets, Novgorod Region.
The village of Krutets.
BALAGAN. The puppet Petrushka.
Fragment of the performance.
Former Petrushka player P. Ya.
Lyubaev plays the barrel organ, recites the text (synchronously).
Newsreel footage: folk festival, carousel, fair, circus performance.
Arkhangelsk region Novgorod region
Summer
Former Petrushechnik P.Ya.
Lyubaev plays the barrel organ, recites the text (synchronously).
Folk festivities, buffoons (drawings, popular prints). D.I.Longo in his apartment. D.Longo's student swallows a sword.
Master puppeteer I.A. Zaitsev carves a doll. I.A. Zaitsev's puppet theater (fragments of the performance).
Former Petrushechnik P.Ya.
Lyubaev plays the barrel organ, recites the text (synchronously).
Lyubaev puts the Petrushka doll by I.Zaitsev on his hand.
Fragment of the performance.
Lyubaev P.Ya - puppeteer
parsley
actor of the folk theater Longo D.I. - fakir
illusionist Zaitsev I.A. - master puppeteer
Moscow Krasnoyarsk
Performance of Petrushka player P.Ya.
Lyubaev.
Dolls in the doll museum.
Close-up: D.Longo's face.
Lyubaev plays the barrel organ.