Above the eternal peace. (City of the Dead) (1990)

Tree leaves, a cross on a cast-iron fence.

Cemetery, a large tombstone in the form of a huge boulder, a plaque on the monument.

Panorama of the old cemetery, in the frame, crosses, gravestones, tombstones, crypts, etc.

Large - an inscription on a tombstone in Old Church Slavonic.

The inscription on the tombstone is "Lord, Thy will be done!" A stone cross in the shade of trees, a panorama of the tree crowns, the sun breaking through the leaves.

An ancient tombstone in a cemetery.

Large - an inscription on a tombstone.

The grave of the Russian statesman V. P. Kochubey, there is a golden cross on the tombstone.

A statue of Christ on the grave of Anna Vershinina at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Cemetery, graves, crosses, panorama of trees.

Bas-relief with angels on a tombstone.

Various bas-reliefs on ancient tombstones are shown.

Image of the crucified Christ, a candle is burning.

Orthodox church, in the frame there is a statue of the crucified Christ, icons, crucifixes, candles are burning, Metropolitan of Sourozh lights a candle.

Sculpture of a grieving angel with a cross in a cemetery.

Panorama of tree branches, young leaves, in the frame - a sculpture of a woman in a robe in a cemetery.

Sculpture of an angel looking at the sky.

St.

Petersburg, view from above on Nevsky Prospect, panorama of the streets, etc.

In the frame - Alexander Nevsky Lavra, panorama of the territory, canal, bridge.

Panorama of the Obvodny Canal, Lavra, ancient cemetery.

Lazarevskoye cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, panorama of tombstones, crosses, monuments, slabs, etc.

Talyzin's tombstone in the cemetery.

Sculptures and statues near the tombstone.

Sculpture of a sleeping officer on a tombstone.

Sculpture of a mother and baby.

The frame shows one of the tombstones of the Lazarevskoye Cemetery, a bust of a man and statues.

The frame shows marble statues of women and children at the tombstone.

Smolenskoye Cemetery, in the frame an Orthodox church on the cemetery grounds.

Sculpture of an angel, panorama of graves, crosses, tombstones.

Ancient marble tombstone on a pedestal, panorama of crosses, graves, etc.

Nikolskoye Cemetery - a half-flooded ravine, in the frame ancient graves, crosses, tombstones.

Panorama of the canal, graves, tombstones, monuments, crosses, fences, etc.

B/W old photographs of the early 20th century - cemeteries of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (tombstones, burial vaults, crypts, crosses and monuments).

Tombstone on the grave of E. V. Dashkova, in the frame - the Lazarevskaya burial vault in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, there are tombstones, sarcophagi.

Panorama of the tombstones.

Footage from the 1920-1930s - an anti-religious rally near an Orthodox church, crowds of people, priests handing over various church valuables, etc., a room with a poster "The fight against religion is the fight for socialism".

The photo shows the clergy of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra with the relics of Alexander Nevsky.

The photographs show various artistic, cultural, religious valuables from the Lavra in the Museum of Atheism, broken bells, a destroyed church, soldiers posing for a photo in the church.

The dome of an Orthodox church, in the foreground - barbed wire, a panorama of the fence, the cemetery territory, graves, crosses.

Close up - a cross on one grave and a star on another.

Monuments and tombstones of Soviet red commanders and military leaders at the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Yarkov's tombstone monument, panorama of the Lavra.

Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Saint Petersburg, panorama of the Lavra building, courtyard, construction materials, reinforcement, etc. in the frame, it is clear that restoration work is underway.

In the frame - a chapel with a colonnade (Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross), panorama of the street, a tram passes.

An ancient crypt in the cemetery.

Pits in the cemetery.

The territory of the old cemetery, an excavator is working, in the frame an Orthodox stone cross on a grave.

Power transmission tower in the cemetery, panorama of a half-flooded ravine, crosses, graves.

In the black and white photo - the Church of the Virgin Mary built by N. Benois.

Vyborg Catholic Cemetery in Saint Petersburg - in the frame is the Church of the Virgin Mary.

Panorama of the territory near the church, in the frame it is clear that construction work is underway.

Blooming trees on the territory near the church, in the frame a half-ruined two-story building, construction waste, etc.

The black and white photograph shows various old tombstones with crosses, including the tombstone on the grave of the artist Bogolyubov.

The territory of the Malo-Okhtinskoye Orthodox Cemetery in St.

Petersburg - holes have been dug on the site of the cemetery, pipes have been laid.

The old black and white photographs show views of the cemetery, the Orthodox church on its territory, in the frame there are graves, crosses, tombstones, etc.

The modern view of the Malo-Okhtinskoye Orthodox Cemetery, which was demolished in the 1930s.

On the pole there is an old sign with the house number, a panorama of the territory of the former Mitrofanievsky cemetery, dilapidated half-ruined wooden buildings, sheds, old boards, a broken fence, etc. are visible.

Panorama of the landfill on the territory of the former cemetery.

The old b/w photograph shows an Orthodox church on the territory of the Mitrofanievsky cemetery.

Panorama of the territory of the former Mitrofanievsky cemetery - in the frame are dilapidated buildings, houses, sheds, etc., in the frame is a large parking lot for trailers with tanks for kvass.

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh is speaking.

Panorama - an old abandoned cemetery, a destroyed brick wall, abandoned graves, crosses, etc. are visible.

Toppled monuments, tombstones, crosses.

Crosses, parts of destroyed cemetery monuments, etc. are lying on the ground.

Different views of the old abandoned cemetery - unkempt graves, broken fences, old tombstones, graffiti on monuments and tombstones.

Panorama of the statue of a headless angel on one of the tombstones.

Old cemetery gates.

A wooden cross is leaning against the fence.

Panorama of an old abandoned crypt.

Crypts in an abandoned cemetery.

A view of a tombstone with an angel figure through the fence.

Sculpture of an angel.

Various sculptural compositions in the cemetery, the outlines of a tower are visible in the background.

Old black and white photographs from the 1940s - transportation of old tombstones and monuments to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Museum-Necropolis.

A group photograph of four men.

In the photograph is N. V. Uspensky, the first director of the necropolis museum.

A sign on the building - "Necropolis of Masters of Arts", the gates open, in the frame a building with columns, in the center there is a large stone bowl.

In the frame - a tombstone and a monument to Kazadayeva.

Tombstone and a monument to the opera singer A. Bozio.

Close-up - a sign "Tombstone of the sculptor F. I. Shubin", a panorama of monuments and tombstones on the territory of the necropolis.

The frame shows various monuments, tombstones, and sculptural compositions transferred to the necropolis museum from various old cemeteries in St.

Petersburg.

Close-up - a sculpture of a woman on a tombstone.

A moved tombstone, a cross lying nearby, a panorama of the old cemetery, a tombstone, monuments, and a man standing next to them.

The speaker is a cemetery researcher, Russian necropolis specialist G. V. Pirozhkov.

Old tombstones and monuments in the necropolis museum.

A walk along a path along the tombstones.

An elderly man slowly walks along the territory of the necropolis, along the tombstones.

An elderly man approaches a tombstone, touches it with his hand, and moves on.

Close-up - the inscription on the tombstone "Composer Dm.

Bortnyansky", in the frame - a tombstone and obelisk in the necropolis museum.

Panorama of the monuments, tombstones of the necropolis museum, in the frame - a bench, paths, a flowerbed with flowers.

Panorama of the tombstone of the poet E. F. Rosen.

An elderly man walks along a path past monuments and tombstones.

Saint Petersburg, old cemetery, necropolis scientist Pirozhkov G. V. stands near the tombstone of actor Martynov, talking about the tombstone.

Inscription on the monument at the grave "actor Alexander Evstafievich Martynov" in the necropolis of artists in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Large - Orthodox stone cross on the tombstone.

Tombstone of opera singer Petrova-Vorobyeva.

Old monuments to opera singers Petrov and Petrova-Vorobyeva at the Smolenskoye Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

Old forged cemetery fence, panorama of grass, tombstone.

Large - cast-iron cross on the tombstone.

In the photograph - literary scholar Maksimov D. M. The photographs - the funeral of the poet Alexander Blok in 1921. Maksimov's book "The Prose and Poetry of A. Blok", in the frame a portrait-photograph of the poet.

Various photographs - Blok's old grave, a wooden cross on the grave, exhumation of remains for the poet's reburial at the Literatorskie Mostki of the Volkovskoye Cemetery.

In the photograph - literary scholar D. M. Maksimov.

In the photographs - shots of Blok's reburial at the Literatorskie Mostki of the Volkovskoye Cemetery in 1944, the grave, flowers, etc.

A monument-obelisk on Blok's grave with a portrait of the poet.

Panorama of old gravestones.

Close-up - the tombstone of Lyubov Dmitrievna Blok, the poet's wife.

In the frame are the graves of the Beketovs, Lyubov Dmitrievna Blok at the Volkovskoye Cemetery.

Panorama of the grass, earth at the cemetery, in the frame - the grave of Blok and members of his family at the Volkovskoye Cemetery.

Smolenskoye Cemetery, panorama of the trunk of an old tree, a plaque on the tree "Alexander Blok was buried here", in the frame a tombstone with a cross on Blok's old grave, panorama of the cemetery, graves, tombstones.

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh is speaking.

Cemetery, in the frame a tombstone, a photograph of a woman on an Orthodox cross.

Grave of a nun, an Orthodox stone cross, photographs on the cross.

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh is speaking.

Cemetery, funeral, a funeral procession follows the coffin.

An old woman in a headscarf stands near the grave in the cemetery.

Close-up - a photograph of a young woman on a monument.

An elderly woman stands silently near the grave.

A candle is burning near the tombstone.

A woman is adjusting flowers near the tombstone, a little boy is standing nearby.

Women in headscarves at the graves of their loved ones, looking at the crosses.

A woman is tending a grave.

An image of the crucified Christ, a candle is burning.

Metropolitan of Sourozh in the church, standing near candles, praying.

Tombstone on the grave of Dostoevsky in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, in the frame - a sculptural bust of the writer, a panorama of flowers lying near the tombstone, an inscription on the monument.

Church service in the cemetery, near the grave of Dostoevsky, clergy read prayers, cross themselves.

Panorama of people present at the service.

Various shots from the service, in the frame are clergy, parishioners.

The clergyman walks around the tombstone, waves a censer, prayers are read, people cross themselves.

Women stand with candles in their hands.

A man places a burning candle near the tombstone, crosses himself.