About the ancient Russian city of Solvychegodsk, the family estate of the Counts Stroganov. Reflections on the past, present and future of Russia.
























Flowers on the windowsill.
A room, someone is sleeping on the bed.
A cemetery, monuments covered with snow.
Panorama of the room.
A man is walking across the yard with a bucket.
A man is talking on the phone in the room.
A man is rolling an iron barrel across the yard.
A ferry on the river.
A car is driving onto the ferry.
The ferry is being transported to the opposite bank.
View of the pier from the river.
A man is sitting in a room.
A man is typing.
An instrumental ensemble is playing in the street.
City streets.
The Stroganov Palace.
A queue at the currency exchange office.
A man enters the yard of an old mansion (the Stroganov Palace).
The yard is littered with building materials, abandoned tables and umbrellas of an outdoor cafe.
A rapist near the station is pushing a cart with luggage.
City street, evening.
People are boarding a train.
A departing train.
A man is sleeping, sitting on a train.
People are eating on the train.
A man is standing on the highway near a village.
He hitches a ride and gets into a car.
Winter.
Village.
A man shaving in the bathroom.
A man in the local history museum near the display cases with folk costumes.
A man sitting in the bathroom, smoking.
The museum exposition: old spinning wheels, tuesas, baskets.
Wooden sculpture.
Street of a provincial town.
Bust of Lenin.
Old mansion.
View of the city from the bell tower.
Old engraving depicting Solvychegodsk.
Church with a bell tower at sunset.
A man climbing the stairs in a hotel.
A man smoking in a hotel room.
A man walking across the yard.
View of the domes of the church from the bell tower.
Bell.
View of Vychegda from the bell tower.
Two men walking through deep snow.
The men approach the church.
An abandoned church.
View of the snow-white church from the river.
A man examining an old city plan.
Surviving church paintings, iconostasis.
A man walking around the church, climbing the stairs.
The priest lights the lamps in front of the icons in the church.
A priest talking to a man.
A priest at home with his son.
People bringing firewood to the church.
A man and a woman brought firewood to the church on a sled.
A man walking through a cemetery.
A man standing by an abandoned church.
A man walking along a street in Paris.
Baroness Helene de Ludinghausen (Helen Stroganova) reading a letter.
Streets of Paris.
Meeting with the Baroness.
An old woman weaving on a loom.
A dog standing in the snow near the railroad tracks.
A man sleeping in a train compartment.
A girl weaving on a loom.
A man smoking in the vestibule.
Girls weaving on looms.
A child running along a path in a cemetery.
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