Clerk, Minister, President (1999)

Wooden boat in the reeds view of V. Nabokov's estate "Rozhdestveno".

Alley leading to the house.

Photos of V. Nabokov and his family.

Night rural summer landscapes, the moon above the horizon.

The moon disk above the forest.

View of the house in Rozhdestveno at night, the windows on the upper floor are lit.

Pitchforks of a meadow with blooming dandelions, teenagers on bicycles and mopeds ride along a country road.

Homemade soccer goals in a meadow.

Teenagers play basketball in front of a homemade basket installed on a pole on the side of the road, a truck drives by, raising dust.

Teenagers try to throw the ball into the basket.

The face of a smiling girl.

A young man sits on a dilapidated pedestal, reads Pushkin's poems out loud, pronounces quotes from N. Ostrovsky, A.P. Chekhov and other classics (synchronously and off-screen).

Teenagers with bicycles on the side of the road.

A girl climbs onto a round stone and depicts Picasso's painting "Girl on a Ball".

A girl's smiling face.

A young man, standing on the step of a half-ruined pedestal, reads Mayakovsky's poems aloud (synchronously).

A young man sits on the side of the road and depicts Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker".

A young man and a girl, standing on a round stone, depict the sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman".

The head of a grazing calf.

Cows in the water are saved from horseflies.

A boy, sitting on the steps of the descent to the water, reads aloud the history of the Trojan War (synchronously and off-screen).

The back of a girl lying in a hammock.

Teacher N.V. Zhiganov in dark glasses and a Panama hat sits, leaning his back against a telegraph pole.

Summer rural landscape.

A young man and a girl talking.

Zhiganov washes a plastic bottle in a stream (top).

The place where the river diverges into two branches.

Algae on the bottom.

Zhiganov and a girl go out to the bank of the Oredezh River.

Birds and insects above the water surface.

A boy on the river bank catches butterflies with a net.

Zhiganov, standing on the river bank with a bicycle, reads poetry out loud (synchronously and off-screen).

Summer landscape, view of a wooden platform in a swampy area, a young man and a girl walking on the boards (from above).

Shady path along the fence, thickets of bushes.

A boy, standing in the bushes, blows soap bubbles.

Footbridge over a stream.

Roof frame of the house in Rozhdestveno.

A girl looks out of the window opening.

Writer and restorer Semochkin A.A. at work discusses the future of the Rozhdestveno museum-estate, talks about the fate of the estate after the revolution (synchronously and off-screen).

Views of the estate complex and park.

A young man discusses the fate of the Russian people, ways to improve life in Russia, and the training of management personnel (synchronously).

Bicycles lie on a hillock.

View of part of the house in the Rozhdestveno estate.

Writer Semochkin A.A. discusses the character of the Russian person, lists the traits that the Russian people lack (synchronously and off-screen).

The face of a young man.

During a conversation with Semochkin, young people discuss the future of the country and their own prospects, ways to improve life, and the causes of revolutions (synchronously and off-screen).

Semochkin speaks about the unacceptability of the presidential form of government for Russia (synchronously), young people listen to Semochkin.

A view of one of the neglected rooms of the house in Rozhdestveno during restoration.

A view of the upper part of a burnt wooden column.

Young people talk about leaving for the West and returning to their homeland, about the people's trust in themselves and the government, about the need to be confident in themselves (synchronously and off-screen).

Tourist buses pass along the road.

A waiter sets up tables at a roadside cafe.

Local residents talk about the fishing industries and enterprises that existed before the revolution, about the need to have a normal owner, talk about the merchant Chikin, about raising production and employment (synchronously and off-screen).

The driver opens the hood of the car, rummages around in the engine.

Reflections of trees on the surface of the hood of the car.

A woman rakes last year's leaves.

Women carry sacks along the road in hand wheelbarrows.

A car drives past private houses.

An elderly woman talks about her life and work (synchronously and off-screen), spring rural landscape.

Restorer at work.

A girl talks about her desire to make a diplomatic career, about the wrong international policy pursued by Russia (synchronously and off-screen), faces of young people.

Restorer at work in the Rozhdestveno estate.

Young people by the window.

Young people talk about the difficult economic situation in the countryside, about the opportunity for young people to take up farming, offer their options for getting out of the current economic situation (synchronously and off-screen), faces of young people.

Wooden scaffolding near the wall of a house in Rozhdestveno, children riding past on bicycles.

A singer performing on the estate grounds during an off-site concert.

Young people on the estate grounds during a holiday, a panorama of a part of the house in scaffolding.

Panorama of a temporary street cafe set up on the estate grounds near the house.

A man and a girl are sitting in a wooden gazebo and eating watermelon.

A photograph of the Nabokov family members on the terrace of the house.

A photograph of an alley in the park.

Photographs of feasts on the estate in the early 20th century.

A photograph of the upper part of the house.

River landscape, panorama of crumbling sandy bank with coniferous trees growing on it.

Young people with burning torches enter a cave.

Faces of grimacing teenagers.

Teenagers make humorous speeches, standing and sitting on a sandy rock (synchronously and off-screen), inscription on the rock.

Faces of teenagers.

Teenagers enter a cave.

Children and young people jump into the water, swim in the river.

Teenagers stand on an iron bridge.

A girl swimming to the shore.

Teenagers in the park near the elephant sculpture.

Teenagers ride mopeds and bicycles around the gazebo on the estate grounds.

Teenagers near one of the surviving statues on the estate grounds, joke about the statue.

A girl sits on the statue's lap, paints the statue's lips with lipstick.

Teenagers on mopeds ride along the path of a neglected park in Rozhdestveno.

The sign "Caution, children".

Teacher Zhiganov answers a girl's question about happiness (synchronously and off-screen).

Clouds in the sky (panorama).

Zhiganov talks about communicating with people and about loneliness, about the liberated state of a lonely soul (synchronously and off-screen), smoke from a fire rises to the tops of the trees.

Summer rural landscape.

Rapids on the Oredezh River, view of a bridge across the river, children fishing from the bridge, panorama of the opposite bank of the river.

Young people sunbathe, lying on the river bank.

A young man and a girl are standing in the doorway of an abandoned house, a stream is flowing.

The fragments of the window frame sway in the wind.

The beginning of rain on the river, gusts of wind.

Water surface during a downpour.

Summer river landscape during a downpour.

View of a house in Rozhdestveno from the bell tower.

Interior view of a barn.

Reproduction of a seascape on the glass of a cabinet in a barn.

A boy, sitting on a wooden ladder, reads aloud the biography of Admiral Nelson (synchronously and off-screen).

A girl, Katya, listens to the reading, buried in fresh hay.

Clouds against the blue sky.

Teacher Zhiganov, sitting in a chaise lounge, tells Katya about his old dream, tells Katya about the work of A. Green (synchronously and off-screen), Katya listens to Zhiganov's story.

Summer flora.

Panorama of a part of the park with ruins.

The shadow of a wind turbine on the surface of the roof of a barn, panorama of a wind turbine, off-screen conversation between the teacher and Katya.

Katya during a conversation with a teacher.

The teacher talks about his feelings about age, about the fear of losing illusions, about his understanding of the meaning of life (synchronously and off-screen).

A tree trunk and vegetation on the river bottom.

Trees on the river bank, a view of a part of the river (panorama), clouds reflected in the water.

A young man and a girl are talking, sitting on the river bank, about the legend of the bell hanging above Rozhdestveno.

A view of a part of the river, clouds of fog, young people are sitting by a fire on the bank (from above).

Young people by a fire, a panorama of pine trees on the bank.

The faces of young men and women talking by the fire.

The driver greets the young people from the car window.

The young people thank the driver, wave goodbye.

Cars are driving along the evening highway.

A view of an Orthodox church standing by the highway.

The faces of young people talking by the fire.

Burning logs.

Young people sitting by a fire discussing the future life, life stimuli and the role of other people's and their own life experience (synchronously and off-screen), faces of young people.

Young men with burning torches on the river bank.

View of part of the river bank with a burning fire.

Lights on the water.

Panorama of part of an autumn park, rotten logs piled up.

Panorama of part of a neglected alley.

Telegraph pole next to a tree with fallen leaves.

Autumn rural landscape.

View of a house in Rozhdestveno.

Facade of the house during restoration.

Face of the writer A.A. Semochkin.

Autumn foliage on the ground.

Photographs of the estate at the beginning of the 20th century, members of the Nabokov family and guests of the estate.

Young people walking along an asphalt road.