The film tells about the tragic fate of the greatest Russian poet - Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov.












Monument to Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov in Moscow near the Krasnye Vorota metro station (shot from different angles).
Stills from an old film showing fragments of the Decembrist uprising on Senate Square.
A room, a round table, open books on the table, a candlestick with burning candles.
Close-up - books on the table.
Close-up - a desk, a burning candle, an inkwell with a pen, a manuscript sheet on the table.
Close-up - a sheet with Lermontov's poem.
Close-up - a burning candle.
Lines of the poem, written by Lermontov, appear on the screen.
Panorama of Lermontov's desk - books, a small oval portrait of Byron in a frame.
Fragment of Lermontov's manuscript (the poem "No, I am not Byron, I am someone else...").
Paintings and drawings by Taras Shevchenko "Punishment with the Gauntlet", "Punishment with the Stock", etc.
Drawings - soldiers marching, walking in formation, etc.
Large - a folder from the archives of the Secret Chancellery.
Folders with the files of the Secret Chancellery are also lying here.
Portrait of A. I. Herzen.
Excerpts from Herzen's diaries.
Map of Europe, tongues of flame appear on the map.
Drawings - depict revolutionary events in France in the 19th century.
Tongues of flame on the map of Europe.
Panorama of the map of Russia.
The old building of Moscow University on Mokhovaya.
University courtyard, panorama of the building.
Portrait of Lermontov.
Panorama of the university corridor, columns, stairs.
In the frame - university premises, a hall, a columned, semicircular balcony at the top, etc.
Drawing - Vissarion Belinsky speaking at a meeting of Stankevich's circle.
Frames with manuscripts, drafts of forbidden poems.
The old building of Moscow University on Mokhovaya.
Portrait of Emperor Nicholas I. Drawing - Herzen in a prison cell with a book.
Portrait of the poet A. I. Polezhaev.
The drawing depicts the critic V. G. Belinsky.
Drawings with views of St.
Petersburg.
Drawings by Lermontov from the cycle "Cadet School".
Pages of a manuscript (the poem "Demon", the unfinished novel "Vadim").
Portrait of Lermontov.
Fragments from the feature film "Masquerade" (1941).
Painting by the artist Naumov "Duel of Pushkin with Dantes.
On the door of Pushkin's apartment on the Moika there is a bulletin about the poet's health.
Large - sheets of paper with text.
An article in the newspaper about Pushkin's death.
Drafts, manuscripts of Lermontov - with the poem "Death of the Poet".
The text of the poem, written by Lermontov, appears on the screen.
Portrait of the chief of the gendarmes Benckendorff.
Benckendorff's report to the tsar (about Lermontov's poem "Death of the Poet").
Comments by Nicholas I on the report.
Portrait of Emperor Nicholas I. Portrait of Lermontov.
Portrait of Emperor Nicholas I. Large - a folder from the archives of the Secret Chancellery.
Pages from the files are turned over.
Large - an order from Emperor Nicholas I about the transfer of Lermontov to the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment in Georgia.
Fragments from the feature film, a carriage traveling along the road, views of nature, etc.
The Caucasus, Mountains.
Panorama of a mountain river.
Various drawings - highlanders, Abreks, views of the Caucasus, etc. (drawings by Lermontov).
Caucasus mountains, river.
Portrait of the poet Alexander Odoevsky.
Landscapes of the Caucasus, mountains, a river flows.
Portrait of the poet Alexander Odoevsky.
Leningrad, view from the embankment of the river, the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Winter Palace, etc.
Close-up - waves wash the stone steps on the embankment.
Monument to Lermontov in Leningrad.
Views of Leningrad - embankment, bridge, canal.
Close-up - tree branches.
Close-up - stone embankment, steps, splashing water.
Autumn leaves on the water.
Close-up - waves wash the stone steps on the embankment.
Portrait of Lermontov by Pasternak.
Painting "Demon" by Vrubel.
Book "A Hero of Our Time" - pages are turning.
Fragments from the feature film "Princess Mary" (1955).
Drawings-illustrations for Lermontov's poem "Mtsyri".
Stills from the feature film "War and Peace" (1967) - fragments of the Battle of Borodino are shown.
Panorama of open books, magazines with Lermontov's poems and prose.
Lermontov's drawings - "Circle of 16".
Close-up - a folder from the archives of the Secret Chancellery.
The drawing shows Lermontov and Belinsky.
Painting on the theme of the Caucasian War.
Report to the Emperor on Lermontov's award.
The Emperor's response.
Portrait of Lermontov.
Rural landscapes - field, forest, river in the distance, birches, etc.
Sunset, river, view of the road.
Fields, hills, trees, etc.
Panorama of the river.
Monument to Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov in Moscow near the Krasnye Vorota metro station (shot from different angles).
View of Moscow - in the frame is the monument to Lermontov, a square, a high-rise building.
Poet, Decembrists, poetry, manuscripts, duel
Moscow Leningrad