Cassandra of Petersburg (1992)

An image of the ancient prophetess Cassandra.

A photograph of the poetess Z.N. Gippius in an oval on a dark background, with Gippius's poems playing in the background.

Fragments of sculptures of horses on the Anichkov Bridge.

Pine trunks pointing upwards, a portrait of one of those shot on a tree trunk.

Portraits of people shot by the Chekists, attached to tree trunks, a panorama of a clearing.

Portraits of the repressed, attached to a tree trunk with a piece of barbed wire.

A photo portrait of Gippius in her youth.

A photograph of a horse's head behind bars.

Color photographs of horses.

An image of Tiflis in a painting by one of the Georgian artists.

Fragments of paintings by Georgian artists of the first half of the 20th century.

A photograph of D.S. Merezhkovsky sitting in an armchair in his office.

Views of the palaces of St.

Petersburg and the Smolny building.

Decorations on the lattice of one of the fences.

A photograph of D.S. Merezhkovsky.

A photograph of Z.N. Gippius.

Views of the Summer Garden alleys, statues along the edges of the alley.

Fragments of one of the statues.

Graphic portrait of Gippius.

View of the Muruzi House in St.

Petersburg, cars drive along Liteiny Prospekt.

One of the entrances to the Muruzi House.

Panorama of part of the facade of the Muruzi House.

Scraps of announcements on a drainpipe, window of the Vsemirnaya Literatura publishing house.

Panorama of part of the facade of the house.

Windows of the apartment where Joseph Brodsky lived and was arrested.

Photograph of Brodsky with a cat in his arms.

Panorama of part of the facade of the house from the courtyard.

The open door of the front door leading to the apartment of Merezhkovsky and Gippius.

Photograph of Gippius from the late 19th century.

Panorama of the windows of the apartment of Gippius and Merezhkovsky.

Portrait of Gippius from 1906 by Leon Bakst.

Gippius, Merezhkovsky and D. Filosofov at home in a photograph from 1914. Paintings by Russian artists of the early 20th century depicting people in carnival costumes, with Gippius's poems dedicated to A. Blok playing in the background.

Painting depicting Gippius lying on a sofa.

Photograph of Gippius in men's clothing, 1897. Newsreel from the 1910s: officers present flowers to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Emperor Nicholas II standing nearby.

Ladies in fashionable summer dresses sit in wicker chairs.

Fragments of silent feature films about the life of high society.

Photographs of banquets for business people of the Russian Empire.

Newsreel: women in fashionable summer dresses.

Aerial battles during World War I, 1914-1915. A burning balloon falls.

Heavy artillery guns of Germany and France fire.

Nicholas II comes out onto the balcony of the Winter Palace in August 1914. Farewell to those mobilized to the front.

A priest sprinkles holy water on the banners of military units heading to the front.

Troops march along the streets and avenues of St.

Petersburg.

Military operations on the fronts of World War I, the face on the icon of the Mother of God.

Heavy artillery shells the infantry in the trenches.

The wounded are loaded onto a hospital train.

Faces of participants in a prayer service on Red Square in 1915. A unit of Russian infantry and a column of volunteers march along a city street.

Soldiers stand in line for a field kitchen.

Soldiers getting a haircut in the trenches on the front line.

Russian soldiers clean their weapons and pick lice out of their shirts during rest periods between battles.

Troops of the Entente and the Triple Alliance conduct military operations.

Infantry overcomes barbed wire entanglements under artillery fire.

A shell exploding.

A photograph of Gippius with her autograph.

The house in St.

Petersburg where Gippius and her husband moved shortly before the start of World War I. Steps of the staircase leading to the apartment of Gippius and Merezhkovsky.

Photograph of Gippius in 1914. Newsreel of 1917: columns of revolutionary workers and soldiers on the streets of Petrograd in March 1917. Trucks with soldiers passing by.

Trucks with soldiers on the streets of Petrograd, the population greeting them.

Panorama of part of Palace Square.

Fragments of the Monument to Peter I. Reflections of historical buildings of St.

Petersburg on the surface of the water.

View of the monument to Peter I. Photograph of Gippius at her desk.

Windows of the former apartment of Gippius and Merezhkovsky (panorama).

Views of houses in the historical part of St.

Petersburg, fragments of building decorations.

Newsreel of 1917: demonstrations and rallies in Petrograd in March 1917. Revolutionary soldiers greeting the rally.

Distribution of leaflets by rally participants.

Demonstration in support of the Provisional Government. K. Liebknecht's speech at a rally in a Berlin park in 1918. View of one of the streets of Petrograd.

People are walking along Nevsky Prospect.

Fragment of the feature film "October".

Monument to V.I. Lenin on the square in front of the Finland Station.

Intersection of tram tracks, a tram passes.

View of part of the gateway on Lenin Street.

Fragments of the monument to Lenin in front of the Finland Station.

View of the Tauride Palace building (combined shooting).

Newsreel: views of the State Duma meeting hall.

Columns of the Tauride Palace.

Autumn foliage around the trunk of a tree.

Bas-reliefs of women's heads on the wall of the building.

Views of historical buildings of St.

Petersburg (combined shooting).

Fragments of a crumbling caryatid.

Bas-reliefs on the walls of buildings.

Window of the former Gippius apartment.

Modern apartment interior, view from the window.

Photographs by Merezhkovsky and Gippius.

Portrait of Boris Savinkov, a friend of Merezhkovsky and Gippius.

A carousel spins in an autumn park in the rain.

Portrait of A.F. Kerensky.

Photographs of Kerensky during rallies, military reviews, in his office.

Fragments of the feature film "October".

Graffiti on a revolutionary theme on the wall of one of the houses in St.

Petersburg.

Photograph of Gippius.

Interiors of the kitchen in a communal apartment where Merezhkovsky and Gippius lived in 1917, the housewives are preparing dinner.

An elderly woman with a dog is sitting on the sofa by the window of her room in the former apartment of the Merezhkovskys.

Photo portrait of the poet Valery Bryusov.

Portraits of the poets Andrei Bely and Alexander Blok.

Illustration for the poems of A. Blok.

Photograph of Gippius at her desk.

Caricature-allegoric of the Bolshevik system.

Posters from the early years of Soviet power.

The face of the Mother of God on an icon.

Boarded up and empty window openings, a ruined balcony of an old house in St.

Petersburg.

Street musicians playing wind instruments.

Poor pensioners begging on the streets of St.

Petersburg.

Legs of passers-by.

Loading boxes of humanitarian aid onto a bus.

People at the Sennoy Market.

Shoes on the counter of a cooperative kiosk.

Clothes hanging above the counter with perfume.

Food, perfume and shoes on the counter.

People standing in line at the Lenvest company, faces of those standing in line.

People on one of the streets of St.

Petersburg, street trading from hands.

Plumbing parts on a box, put up for sale.

Text on a street orchestra poster.

Figure of an angel on the Alexander Column.

View of St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Sculptures decorating one of the buildings.

The wall of the embankment of one of the canals.

Panorama of the facade of one of the houses, trees with yellow leaves.

Glare on the surface of the water.

Photo by Z.N. Gippius in his youth.