The film was shot using documents from the archives of the Tatar ASSR, the M. Gorky museums of Kazan, Gorky, Moscow and the archives of the IML.




Photo of 17-year-old Alexey Peshkov.
Photo by M. Gorky.
Photographs of old Kazan.
Photo by N. Evreinov.
Photo of N. Evreinov's mother.
Advertisements in newspapers by university students wishing to give lessons.
Old photographs: homeless people, barge haulers, loaders, inhabitants of flophouses.
Photographs by M. Gorky.
Photo by B. Pletnev.
Photo of Kazan slums.
Old photographs of Kazan.
Photo by A. Derenkov.
Photographs of members of an illegal circle.
Photographs of the bakery where A. Peshkov worked.
Photo by Fedoseyev.
University building (photo).
Portrait of Emperor Alexander III. Photo by A. Peshkov.
Photo of a hospital ward.
Photo of clergy.
Photo of railway worker A. Ramaz.
Krasnovidovo village (photo).
Kazan