I was born a gardener (1991)

Gateway, arch - in the distance a group of children playing in the yard can be seen.

Children's black and white photograph.

Close-up - holes in the wall forming a swastika, light shining through them, panorama of a photograph of besieged Leningrad.

Photographs of besieged Leningrad, a shadow falling on them.

Children's school copybooks, panorama of a photograph of a boy.

Close-up - copybooks, a teacher's mark "good".

Various fragments with copybooks, a photograph of a boy.

Photographs of besieged Leningrad alternate with shots of children's school copybooks.

A photograph of a boy.

The photographs show vegetable gardens on the streets of besieged Leningrad, city residents working in the beds.

A photograph of a boy.

A photograph of a young man.

In the frame is Andrei Rikhardovich Mets, the chief gardener of the park on Elagin Island, the organizer of the gardening school.

Mets is sitting on a bench in the park, talking to a correspondent, telling about himself.

Photograph of a young Mets, panorama of the map-plan of the St.

Petersburg Botanical Garden.

Mets speaking.

Panorama of the greenhouse, palm trees and exotic plants in the frame.

Close-up - old documents from the 19th century (decrees, orders, etc.) on the establishment of a school for boys at the Botanical Garden.

In the old black and white photograph - the director of the Imperial St.

Petersburg Botanical Garden A. A. Fischer von Waldheim.

Group photo of students and teachers of the school at the Botanical Garden.

View of the old building of the school of gardeners.

Park near the building, panorama of the building.

At the entrance to the building - a ceremonial event on the occasion of the opening of the school of gardening on Elagin Island in 1991, in the frame - teachers, students, guests, etc. (shot from above).

The organizer of the school A. R. Mets is speaking, a correspondent is standing nearby, recording his speech.

Mets is given flowers, people applaud, Mets invites everyone to enter the school.

Clergymen walk along the path past the building, followed by children.

The priest blesses the school, sprinkles the building, the territory and the students with holy water.

Andrei Richardovich Mets and his students walk along the park alley, a panorama of the park territory.

Close-up - a group of school students in the park.

The frame shows the children's faces.

Mets and the students walk along the park alley, Mets tells the children about plants.

View of the park, in the frame - Yelagin Palace.

Lyudmila Petrovna Solonitsyna, head of the academic department of the school of landscape gardening, is speaking.

Panorama of the school's students and teachers, with Andrei Richardovich Mets in the center.

The school's students and teachers pose for a group photo against the backdrop of the old school building.

Panorama of the building.

The frame shows old black and white photos of the school of gardening, graduates.

A group photo of the first students of the modern, revived school of landscape gardening.