To light a candle (1991)

Documentary №61855, 7 parts, duration: 1:08:51
Production: LSDF
Director:I.Kalinina, M.Litvyakov
Screenwriters:I.Kalinina, M.Litvyakov
Camera operators:Yu.Nikolaev
Sound mixer:M.Podtakuj

Annotation:

About the American writer Suzanne Massey, the author of several books about Russian art, Pavlovsk, about the family of the last Russian Emperor. For many years Suzanne Massey is closely connected with Russia.

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Passage along Nevsky Prospekt.

S. Massey is driving in the car, looking out the window.

Rainy day.

Palace Square.

Entrance to the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Artist M.Shemyakin.

An orchestra is playing on the street, musicians in historical costumes.

Opening of the monument to Peter I by M. Shemyakin.

Hang glider over the Palace Square.

Horse cavalcade on Nevsky.

In a wheelchair -Peter I/

Tetaralized meeting of Peter and Catherine with bread and salt.

A balloon rises into the air.

S. Massey and his companion enter the house.

S. Massey with his daughter in the apartment.

Hermitage.S. Massy and his companions in the department of prints.

Storerooms of the museum.

Personnel:

Shemyakin M. M-amerikanskij i rossijskij hudozhnik, skuljptor. Laureat Gosudarstvennoj premii Rossijskoj Federacii, -

Locations: St. Petersburg [814]

Seasons: Summer [824]

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River.

Landscape.

S. Massey walks along the path of the park in Pavlovsk.

The Colonnade of Apollo.

Sculptures in the park.

Driving through the streets of Boston.

The interior of Suzanne's apartment in Boston.

Photos of Suzanne in childhood and youth.

Photos of Suzanne's son.

Church service (Boston).

Photos of Suzanne with her husband and children.

A small village on an island in Maine.

A local holiday in Maine.

Seagulls on the rocks.

Suzanne's family is on vacation on Deer Island.

Birthday of the youngest grandson.

Locations: St. Petersburg [814] Leningrad region [785] USA [851]

Seasons: Spring [825] Summer [824]

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Suzanne is getting ready to watch the movie, sets the screen.

The family is watching an amateur film about the life of the family.

Panorama of the area around Suzanne's house.

Photo by Alexandra Fedorovna Romanova.

Photo of the family of Nicholas II.

Photos of Tsarevich Alexei.

Frozen Neva, view of the Stock Exchange and rostral columns.

Peter and Paul Fortress.

Ships in the port.

The fence of the Summer Garden.

Lomonosov Bridge over the Fontanka River.

Smolny Cathedral.

S.Massey (synchronously) about the evening of poetry by the poet K. Kuzminsky.

Personnel:

Syuzanna Massi -amerikanskaya pisateljnica, issledovatelj istorii Rossii, sigravshaya vazhnuyu rolj v otnosheniyah mezhdu Ronaljdom Rejganom i Sovetskim Soyuzom v poslednie godi holodnoj vojni.

Locations: USA [851] St. Petersburg [814]

Seasons: Winter [823]

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Monument to Nicholas I.

Evening city.

An angel on the Alexander Column.

A motorboat rushes along the Winter Groove.

S. Massey rides in a car.

Travel through the streets of St.

Petersburg (winter).

Patriarch Alexy II with accompanying persons goes to the church under the bell ringing.

People at the church at the Smolensk cemetery, where the relics of Xenia of St.

Petersburg rest.

S. Massey's book "The Living Mirror" with poems by Leningrad poets.

Photo V.Sosnory, G.Gorbovsky, A.Kushner, I.Brodsky, K.Kuzminsky.

S. Massey at his desk.

S. Massey's meeting with R. Reagan (photo).

Personnel:

Aleksij II- patriarh Moskovskij i vseya Rusi.

Locations: St. Petersburg [814] USA [851]

Seasons: Summer [824] Winter [823]

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S. Massey is visiting A.M. Kuchumov (former chief curator of the Pavlovsk Palace).

A. Kuchumov (synchronously).

Interiors of the Pavlovsk Palace.

S. Massey's book "The Country of the Firebird".

S. Massey in his office at his desk.

The French restorer shares the unique lighting technology of ancient interiors with Russian masters.

S. Massey meets R. Reagan and N. Reagan at the entrance to the Pavlovsk Palace.

A yacht docks at the pier.

Golf course.

S.Massey's house on Deer Island.

Personnel:

Renjgan R.-prezident SShA

Locations: Leningrad region [785] USA [851]

Objects:

Pavlovsk Palace

Seasons: Summer [824]

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Landscape.

S. Massey flew to Russia.

An airport.

A book about the Pavlovsk Palace.

Meeting with A. Kuchumov.

S. Massey brought Kuchumov a wheelchair and a book about the Pavlovsk Palace.

S. Massey is driving in a car in St.

Petersburg.

Presentation of S. Massey's book at the American Consulate in Leningrad.

Excursion to the Pavlovsk Palace.

Foreign guests travel by bus.

Guests at the Pavlovsk Palace.

The ball at the Pavlovsk Palace.

Bank bridge.

A small brass band is playing outside.

Locations: Leningrad [848]

Seasons: Summer [824] Autumn [826]

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A rally on the Palace Square in Leningrad.

S. Massey (synchronously).

Delegation of the American Episcopal Church in Russia.

Meeting at the residence of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia.

Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

American Independence Day.

A holiday on Deer Island.

Family picnic on Independence Day on the ocean.

S. Massey on the embankment in St.

Petersburg.

hospital ward.

Treatment room.

A patient with hemophilia is given injections.

Vecherniysankt-Petersburg.

A divorced bridge.

Personnel:

Aleksij II- patriarh Moskovskij i vseya Rusi.

Locations: St. Petersburg [814] Leningrad region [785] Moscow region [788] USA [851]

Seasons: Autumn [826]

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