The film tells the story of one of the districts of Leningrad - Okhta, starting from the 18th century, about the amateur historian Konstantin Mikhailovich Karelin, who studies the history of his ancestors.
Representatives of several generations of the Karelin family are looking at photographs of their ancestors.
A sailboat in the picture, the eldest in the family, Konstantin Mikhailovich Karelin, talks about the old customs of the Okhta residents, about his marriage to a Muscovite (synchronously and off-screen).
A pre-war photograph of the young spouses.
The faces of the interlocutors.
Karelin's wife recalls her impressions upon arriving in Leningrad (synchronously and off-screen).
Old photographs of the Okhta area.
A photograph of a two-story wooden house.
The face of the elder Karelin, his story about his family and ancestors is heard off-screen.
Rural landscapes of the Northwest.
Examples of wooden architecture.
The process of creating a wooden log house with an axe.
View of a part of the river in autumn.
View of a wooden church.
The dial of an antique clock.
Cabinets with books in the local archive.
Karelin, with the help of an archive employee, studies old church books with records of births and baptisms.
The spines of the files of the 18th century registration journals.
Pages of the Address Book of St.
Petersburg for 1837. The names of Krylov, Lermontov, Gogol in the book.
The names and addresses of residents of St.
Petersburg in 1837 on the pages of the book.
Views of the corner tower and half-ruined walls of the fortress.
Fragments of an old engraving of a naval battle.
The text of one of the decrees of Peter I. Portrait of Peter I. The text of the "Instructions to Guard Captain Stepan Pyrsky" from 1721 on the recruitment of ship carpenters.
Domes of an Orthodox church.
Bells in the belfry.
The wheels of a cart passing through the autumn mud, views of stone and wooden Orthodox churches.
A view of a muddy autumn road on the edge of the forest.
An elderly woman stands at the gate, watching a cart pass by.
An 18th-century engraving depicting ships on the Neva, ships in the engraving.
A 1725 plan of St.
Petersburg.
An old plan of Bolshaya and Malaya Okhta.
The text of an 18th-century report on the construction of housing for carpenters in the Okhta area.
Paintings depicting the Okhta area and the life of its residents in the early 19th century, fragments of paintings.
Images of Okhta milkmaids in paintings.
View of the Peter and Paul Fortress in 1986, a sign for the Central State Historical Archive (TSGIA) of the USSR. Karelin and an archive employee look through 18th-century documents.
Entrance to the Navy Archives, a panorama of part of the archive building, bars on the first-floor windows.
Karelin studies documents from the Private Shipyard and lists of Okhta carpenters in the archive reading room, Karelin's face, surnames on the pages written in semi-uncial script.
Karelin discovers the surname of his ancestor.
Karelin in the archive reading room.
Glasses on a thick file of old documents.
Karelin goes to the archive.
Window in a dark storage room.
Genealogical tree of the Karelin family, compiled by K. M. Karelin.
Karelin's son talks about the importance of archival research and his father's studies on the history of the family and Okhta, the discovery of family roots (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Panorama of the coastal part of Veliky Ustyug, from where the Karelin ancestors arrived to build St.
Petersburg.
Crosses on the domes of the Orthodox church.
View of part of the monastery church.
View of the monastery from a window opening covered with an old lattice.
View of part of the Sukhona River and monasteries on the opposite bank.
Bust of Peter I in the Karelin house, a sailboat in a painting.
The face of K. M. Karelin.
Text of the order of the commandant of the Potemkin Private Shipyard from 1723 on the punishment of Mikhail Karelin with floggings.
Panorama of a dilapidated lock, view of the collapsed doors.
Views of abandoned structures of the Ladoga Canal.
Engravings depicting the construction of ships on the Okhta.
Pictures of naval battles of the 19th century.
Examples of products of Okhta wood carvers that decorated the palaces of St.
Petersburg and the suburbs.
Panorama of the workshop of the sculptor-restorer of the Catherine Palace Shvetskaya N.M., Shvetskaya at work.
Shvetskaya's face, the process of restoring a wooden bust.
Shvetskaya at work restoring a wooden sculpture, her story about the Okhta craftsmen is heard in the background.
Shvetskaya compares the restored sculpture with the image in the photograph.
Examples of restored wooden sculptures.
Gilded wooden decorations in the halls of the Catherine Palace.
Interiors of the palace halls.
Examples of products of Okhta carvers.
Karelin studies archival documents.
The remaining wooden house among new buildings on the modern Okhta.
Residents of modern Okhta answer the questions of the filmmakers about the history of Okhta, a schoolboy gives a detailed answer (synchronously).
Photographs of Okhta in the early 20th century, the house of the writer Pomyalovsky and the wooden house of the Karelins.
A photograph of an oak tree surrounded by captured Swedish cannons, planted by Peter I. Photographs of the opening ceremony of the monument to Peter I on Okhta in the early 20th century.
View of new residential buildings on modern Okhta.
Karelin's grandson speaks about the need for every person to study the history of his family and know his ancestors (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Photographs of the ancestors of the Karelin family, taken in the late 19th - early 20th centuries.
The face of K. M. Karelin.
Views of Nevsky Prospect.
A pleasure boat sails past Vasilievsky Island.
Views of historical places in Leningrad.
1986
Leningrad Leningrad region
Autumn