Elegy in Prose. (Belinsky) (1992)

View of the bell tower of the Peter and Paul Cathedral through a curl of a cast-iron fence, autumn leaves in front of the fence.

Staging and staged scenes: a carriage drives along the embankment of the Moika River.

An officer and two escorts climb the stairs of an old house.

The officer lights a sign with the name of the owner of the apartment with a match.

A girl plays on the floor in the apartment.

A woman (according to the plot, V.G. Belinsky's wife) opens the door, the officer hands her a package with a notification.

The woman closes the door and reads the notification handed to her by an officer of the 3rd Section.

The face of the actor playing the role of Belinsky.

A child plays on the floor, draws with paints on a sheet of paper.

View of the bay window of an old house with sculptural decorations.

Staged scenes: people talk about Chaadayev.

Conversation between Belinsky and Herzen.

Herzen enters into an argument about Chaadayev, defends him, there is an argument on the topic of "saving the Fatherland" (synchronously).

Belinsky enters into an argument about Chaadayev, does not agree with any of the opponent's arguments.

Belinsky walks away down the street.

The author, dressed in 19th century fashion, on the streets of modern St.

Petersburg.

A memorial plaque on the house where V. G. Belinsky lived.

Portrait of Belinsky.

The entrance to the house where Belinsky lived.

People on the streets of St.

Petersburg.

The author climbs the steps of the entrance porch.

Interior view of the art exhibition hall.

The author in one of the exhibition halls examines the paintings on the walls, the author's face.

Portrait of Belinsky on the wall of the hall.

Lithographed portrait of Belinsky created by the artist Gorbunov.

Portrait of Belinsky by the artist Astafiev.

Graphic portraits of Belinsky.

Bust of Belinsky created by Professor Ge.

Portrait of Belinsky on the wall of the exhibition hall.

The author examines the portrait.

The author among passers-by on one of the streets of St.

Petersburg.

The author approaches one of Klodt's sculptures on the Anichkov Bridge.

View of part of Nevsky Prospect and Lopatin's House with a memorial plaque in honor of Belinsky.

View of Lopatin's House from Fontanka.

The author enters the gateway.

View of part of the yard of the house, the author enters the yard through the arch.

The author enters one of the entrances.

Panorama of the yard, a cabby is standing at the doors of the carriage house.

Panorama of the carriage house.

Window of Belinsky's apartment above the carriage house.

View of part of the city block and roofs of houses (from above).

Portrait of Belinsky above the entrance to the museum named after him.

The author approaches the house, on the wall of which there is a memorial plaque in honor of N.V. Gogol.

The author enters the Literary Café.

Sign with the name of the café.

Visitors to the café at tables listen to an actor quoting Belinsky and Gogol, the author approaches the table and sits down.

The author's face.

A horse-drawn carriage rides along the streets of St.

Petersburg, views of the embankments of canals and bridges.

The author rides in a carriage.

Reflection of part of the bell tower of St.

Nicholas Cathedral in a puddle, yellow leaves on the surface of the water.

Trees with fallen leaves, an obelisk at the site of A.S. Pushkin's duel on the Black River.

A carriage passes by a church.

A carriage passes by the house where M.Yu.

Lermontov lived, a memorial plaque on the wall of the house.

Panorama of part of the Neva embankment, the house of Princess Urusova, where N.A. Nekrasov and the Panaev couple lived.

Portraits of Nekrasov and Panaev.

The author enters the room, picks up and examines the portrait of A. Panaeva.

The author examines one of the rooms of the Nekrasov House-Museum.

Staging: a maid enters the room, lights candles in front of the mirror.

The author goes to the mirror, opens the book and begins to read.

The maid lowers the curtains.

Staging: a conversation between the Panaevs and Nekrasov about publishing a new magazine.

The author with an open book in front of a mirror.

Portrait of A. Panaeva.

Continuation of the conversation (staging), engraving depicting the Anichkov Bridge.

Portrait of Nekrasov.

The first issue of Sovremennik.

Portrait of Belinsky on a shelf between the busts of Pushkin and Gogol.

Portrait of Nekrasov (daguerreotype).

The wall of the house where the editorial office of the Sovremennik magazine was located, a trolleybus passes by.

People and vehicles on the street, the author walks past the house.

The author sits on a bench next to the monument to Nekrasov.

View of the bust-monument to Nekrasov.

Views of the streets of St.

Petersburg, a carriage passes over the bridge over the canal.

The fence of the Fontanka embankment.

The author's face.

The author is riding in a carriage.

Tree trunks are reflected in the water.

View of a small bridge in an autumn park, reflections of trees and a person in the water.

The author is holding a letter in his hand, reading it, the text of Turgenev's letter to Belinsky is heard in the background.

The author is standing on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.

The author's face.

Waves are running up the shore.

A carriage is riding along the streets of St.

Petersburg.

Granite steps of the embankment leading to the water.

Graphic portrait of N.V. Gogol.

Graphic drawing depicting Belinsky at his desk.

An autumn leaf falls into a puddle.

The Galchenkovs' two-story house on Ligovka, where Belinsky lived after returning from abroad.

Re-enactment: Belinsky's wife and daughter at the sick bedside.

Belinsky's face delivering a monologue.

Women's faces.

Pushkin's death mask on the wall of Belinsky's apartment.

Belinsky's wife and daughter's faces.

A gendarme officer enters the room.

The candle flame goes out in the darkness.

View of part of the house on Ligovka where Belinsky lived.

View of part of the building on Fontanka, where the 3rd Section was located in the 19th century.

Re-enactment: Section Chief General L.V. Dubelt opens a window and breathes in the air.

A double-headed eagle above a decorative street lamp on one of the streets of St.

Petersburg.

Re-enactment: Dubelt walks around his office, thinks, and sits down on the sofa.

A chandelier under the ceiling.

Dubelt's face.

The secretary reads out the gendarmes' reports on Belinsky's funeral.

The secretary hands Dubelt the employees' reports, Dubelt reads them.

Dubelt puts a resolution on the report.

A dramatization of a conversation between a writer and an official of the 3rd Section, Popov, about helping Belinsky's family after his funeral and publishing a complete collection of his works for the benefit of his family.

Chief of the Gendarmes Dubelt is reading documents from Belinsky's case in his office, sitting at his desk.

A writing set is on the desk, Dubelt lights candles and continues reading documents.

Dubelt's face as he reads fragments of Belinsky's biography.

Glasses and a writing set are on the desk, Dubelt continues reading excerpts from documents from Belinsky's case.

A portrait of Nicholas I is on the wall of Dubelt's office.

Dubelt discusses Belinsky's views, the official speaks of Belinsky's merits as a literary critic.

The official reads aloud an excerpt from Belinsky's article on criticism.

Dubelt speaks of the Petrashevskyites and the contents of Belinsky's letter to Gogol, and prohibits the publication of Belinsky's works.

View of the building of St Isaac's Cathedral, panorama of roofs of houses, view of part of the city block (from above).

Staging: Popov walks through the yard, enters the entrance.

Popov comes home, takes off his tie in front of the mirror.

Popov gives orders to the servants.

Popov drinks a glass of vodka, has a snack.

Popov goes into the room with a box in his hands, puts it on the table.

Staging, staged scenes: Popov lights a candle, Popov's face.

Popov opens a box with documents, starts looking through them, tears up one of the documents, throws the documents into the oven.

Popov's face against the background of a candle flame.

Popov opens the door to the stairs and sees Belinsky climbing them in a long white shirt with a candle in his hands (allegory).

The actor playing the role of Belinsky reads aloud excerpts from Belinsky's articles on 19th-century literature (synchronously).

Belinsky's spirit with a candle in his hands in front of a mirror on the stairs in Popov's house (staging).

The face of the actor playing the role of Belinsky, illuminated by the flame of a candle.

Popov's face, who imagined the dead Belinsky.

Popov at the table under a lamp with a glass of tea.

Popov takes a crumpled letter from Belinsky out of his pocket, reads it, the text of the letter is heard off-screen.

Domes of the Orthodox Cathedral in St.

Petersburg.

Bare tree branches.

Young people sitting on a bench in a cemetery.

Sparrows in the snow.

Staging: a father and son, dressed in 19th-century fashion, visit Belinsky's grave.

The father and son walk along the path, Belinsky's widow and daughter are walking towards them.

Belinsky's widow and daughter are at his grave, the daughter is laying flowers on the grave.

The girl is going to feed the birds.

Belinsky's widow complains about the indifference of her late husband's friends, about his difficult financial situation (synchronously), flowers on the grave.

The girl is playing with birds in the snow.

The faces of Belinsky's crying daughter and her mother comforting her.

A ditch with water on the cemetery grounds.

View of the domes and bell tower of St.

Nicholas Cathedral in St.

Petersburg.

Wheels of a moving horse-drawn carriage.

Staging and staged scenes: officials of the 3rd Section in the corridors.

Popov enters Dubelt's office, Dubelt is at his desk, informs Popov of the death of Emperor Nicholas I and the accession to the throne of his heir, Alexander II. Dubelt's conversation with Popov about a meeting of an illegal circle, at which they discussed Belinsky, raising funds for his monument, Dubelt demands specific facts.

The official Stakatov enters Dubelt's office, reports on the activities of Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, reads aloud excerpts from Chernyshevsky's article about Belinsky, Dubelt permits the publication of Belinsky's works (synchronously).

View of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Chernyshevsky walks along the bank of the Neva with an interlocutor, talks about the publication of Belinsky's works.

Bas-reliefs and fragments of architectural decorations.

Monument to Nicholas I on St.

Isaac's Square.

View of part of the Volkovskoye Cemetery.

The author at Belinsky's grave.

Monuments on the graves of the writers Goncharov, Pisarev, Grigorovich, Turgenev, buried next to Belinsky.

Monument on Nekrasov's grave in the cemetery of the Novodevichy Cathedral.

Dobrolyubov's grave next to Belinsky's grave.

Entrance arch to the Literatorskie Mostki of the Volkovskoye Cemetery.

View of Belinsky's grave.

Photograph of Belinsky's widow and daughter.

View of part of the Volkovskoye Cemetery, yellow leaf on a branch of a bush.

A horse-drawn carriage drives out onto the Neva embankment.

View of the Volkovskoye Cemetery (from above).