The film was shot in the ancient Russian city of Yaroslavl, which turned 985 years old in 1995. The film is based on portraits of Yaroslavl residents from the distant past and our contemporaries: workers, restorers, engineers, artists.




A man watering flowers in the window.
Pre-revolutionary photographs of Yaroslavl and its residents.
The Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior.
A woman embroidering.
A memorial plaque on a 17th-century house.
Portrait of a merchant family (a painting from the Yaroslavl Art Gallery).
Panorama of the faces in the painting.
A violinist playing in an art gallery.
The bridge over the Volga.
City streets.
The city from above.
A blacksmith.
A holiday, marching children.
A museum.
A restorer's workshop.
An old photograph of a family.
A grandmother running after her grandson.
A woman hanging out washing in the street.
Old photographs of Yaroslavl residents.
Pensioners sitting on a bench in the yard.
An instrumental ensemble playing in an art gallery.
Portraits from the art gallery.
Frescoes of one of the churches.
Raising the cross onto the dome.
Panorama of the faces of modern Yaroslavl residents.
Aerial view of one of the Yaroslavl churches.
Panorama of the iconostasis.
Volkov Square in Yaroslavl with a view of the drama theater.
Fragment of the play.
Photograph from the 1920s.
Worker at a spinning mill.
Photographs from the 1920s.
Yaroslavl tire.
Freight train.
View of the Volga and the city from the air.
Portraits are hung in the gallery.
Faces of Yaroslavl residents in a bus window.
An orchestra plays at a festival.
A motor ship on the river.
Yaroslavl region
Summer



