Defense of Sevastopol (1911)

Actors Gromov, Mozzhukhin, Bibikov in the roles of Admirals Kornilov, Nakhimov, General Totleben and other leaders of the defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1956. Staging: a meeting of the Naval Council in Sevastopol with the participation of Admirals Kornilov, Nakhimov, Istomin, making a decision to sink the ships of the Black Sea Fleet at the entrance to the Sevastopol bay.

A steamship goes through the bay.

Staging the sinking of one of the ships, a model of the ship is installed on top of the submarine.

A boat heads towards the ship.

The barrel of a firing gun.

The boat moves away from the ship.

The boat approaches the shore, a sailor standing in the boat holds an icon in his hands.

People watching the sinking of the ships from the shore fall to their knees.

A model of the ship sinking into the water.

Re-enactment: Admiral Nakhimov and the officers accompanying him go ashore, Nakhimov looks through a telescope.

A sinking model of a ship.

A cannon shot.

Admiral Nakhimov watches the sinking of the ship from the shore, a seascape, a view of part of the Konstantinovskaya battery.

Re-enactment of the construction of a battery and defensive structures by soldiers and women, the women carry earth in wheelbarrows.

Re-enactment of one of the combat episodes during the first assault on Sevastopol on October 5, 19854, a skirmish between Russian and allied troops, the Russian troops put the enemy to flight.

Re-enactment of the defense of Malakhov Kurgan, soldiers firing rifles, Admiral V.A. Kornilov passes by.

Admiral Kornilov watches the progress of the battle through a telescope.

Admiral Kornilov is fatally wounded, soldiers carry the wounded admiral out.

Admiral Kornilov is delivered to the hospital, the death of the admiral.

Re-enactment: Admiral Kornilov says his last words and dies.

Re-enactment of troop movements on the Kamchatka lunette on March 4, 1855. Carrying out the wounded on stretchers.

Movement of units of the Russian army, arrival of reserves.

Re-enactment: soldiers during a rest, sailor Pyotr Koshka approaches them, tells them about his plan to penetrate the enemy rear, puts on a camouflage robe with the help of his comrades.

Sailors and soldiers see Pyotr Koshka off to the enemy rear.

Re-enactment: Pyotr Koshka makes his way through the enemy rear and carries out the body of a killed comrade.

The British, having come to their senses, open fire.

Re-enactment of the battle on the fourth bastion, infantry takes up positions, artillerymen stand at their guns and open fire.

Panorama of the bastion fortifications.

Re-enactment of the battle on Malakhov Kurgan, hand-to-hand combat.

French soldiers render military honors to wounded Russians who have been captured.

Re-enactment: Sevastopol children collect cast-iron cannonballs, officers thank them.

Re-enactment: Admiral Nakhimov arrives at the Fourth Bastion.

Re-enactment: Soldiers, sailors and nurses dance "The Lady" on the bastion during a break between battles.

Bodies of soldiers and sailors killed in battle lie near the cross, a soldier approaches them, kneels and prays.

Re-enactment: A woman finds her husband's body.

Dancing on the bastion during a break.

Panorama of the Fourth Bastion.

Acted footage of the storming of Sevastopol on June 28, 1855. Admiral Nakhimov on the bastion.

Re-enactment of Admiral Nakhimov's fatal wound.

Re-enactment: doctors and nurses at a field dressing station, delivery of the wounded on stretchers, surgeon N.I. Pirogov sorting the wounded.

Re-enactment of a meeting of the commanders-in-chief of the allied armies - British, French and Turkish, planning further actions of the allied forces.

Re-enactment: the allied forces storm Sevastopol on July 6, 1855. Staged footage of the storming of the Fourth Bastion.

Re-enactment of an episode of the battle at the artillery position of the bastion.

Re-enactment: General Khrulyov stops the reserve infantry unit and leads it in a counterattack on the allies.

Counterattack of the Russian troops.

Staged footage of the heroic death of Captain Ostrovsky.

Soldiers carry the body of Captain Ostrovsky on a stretcher past the bastion.

The staging of the retreat of the Russian army units to the Northern side on August 27, 1855, the troops and the population leave the destroyed Southern part of the city and cross to the Northern side on a wooden platform.

The troops go to the crossing.

The last soldier leaves the Southern side of Sevastopol.

Newsreel from 1910: French veterans who took part in the siege of Sevastopol visit the city and battle sites.

French veterans walk past guns from the Sevastopol defence.

French veterans at the monument to their compatriots who died during the Crimean War.

English veterans of the Crimean War recall episodes of the war during their visit to Sevastopol.

Faces of English veterans.

Russian veterans who took part in the defence of Sevastopol.

Former privates, non-commissioned officers and nurses approach the camera one by one, flashing their medals — first the women, then the men, taking off their hats.

Russian veterans of the Crimean War near guns on the bastion.

View of the building of the Sevastopol Defence Museum.

Panorama of the building, old guns near the walls.

Monument to the defenders of the First Bastion.

Monument to the defenders of the Second Bastion.

Monument on the Fourth Bastion.

View of the monument to the sunken ships in Sevastopol Bay.

Views of the monument to E. Totleben in Sevastopol, sculptures of soldiers and sailors at the foot of the monument.

Monument to Admiral P.S. Nakhimov.

Monument to Admiral V.A. Kornilov.