A story about the tragic fate of two dissidents who suffered for their political and religious beliefs. The film uses materials from the State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of the USSR.
Movement along a park alley, fallen leaves on the asphalt.
Flowers at the foot of the wall.
Barbed wire hanging from the wall.
Excursion on board the Aurora.
Palace Square.
Adults and children on the deck, the children are reading a sign.
The photographer leaves the frame.
The Aurora's mooring.
Frozen water.
Old buildings.
A tree trunk.
A cart wheel.
Narrated by I. T. Lapkin.
Ruins of brick houses.
View of a country road.
Chronicle of the 1920s: Soldiers and peasants walking through a village.
Peasant women.
Confiscation of hidden grain.
Peasants under escort by a soldier.
Narrated by I. T. Lapkin.
Rural landscape, strong wind.
Wall of a house, view from the street through the window.
Alternation: I. T. Lapkin, old literature.
The cruiser Aurora.
People climbing the gangway.
Stills from a feature film: Aurora's salvo, storming of the Winter Palace.
Outdoor swimming pool.
1920s
Leningrad Moscow Kaluga region
Autumn
Teenagers on the streets. V.N. Osipov narrates.
Chronicle of 1917-1918: A woman opens the gate, a crowd of children enters the yard.
Poor peasant committees distribute food to children and adults.
Locked gates.
Buildings behind a fence.
Chronicle of the mid-20th century: Alternating: speeches by N.S. Khrushchev, Komsomol construction sites.
Government motorcade.
Meetings of L.I. Brezhnev with the public. L.I. Brezhnev and members of the Politburo bring flowers to the monument to V.I. Tarusskaya Street. I.T. Lapkin and a young man enter a house. I.T. Lapkin narrates.
People enter an apartment.
Icons and paintings on the wall. I.T. Lapkin narrates.
Chronicle of the 1920s: A woman takes icons off the wall.
A man glues a poster.
Public festivities ridiculing religion.
The inscription above the entrance to the church.
Agitation work with the population, demonstrations.
Mass removal of icons from apartments.
Foreign news: A street in New York.
Advertisement of a store in a running line.
People look at a collection of icons and antiques in the window. I. T. Lapkin narrates.
Chronicle of 1917-1918: Pandemonium on Vosstaniya (Znamenskaya) Square.
Participants in the rally.
Destruction of a house. "Orthodox Stan", I. T. Lapkin's camp for children of believers near the village of Poteryaevka, Altai Territory.
Children sawing wood.
A woman baking pancakes.
Teenagers sawing wood, a little boy takes and carries away a log.
A girl runs to the field.
Children picking berries.
Bathing in the river.
Khrushchev N.S. -- Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
Hero of the Soviet Union
Three times Hero of Socialist Labor. Brezhnev L.I. -- statesman and party figure
Marshal of the Soviet Union
Hero of Socialist Labor
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Osipov V.N. -- public figure
politician
publicist
head of the Union of Christian Revival (UCR).
1917-1918 1920s 1960s-1970s
Moscow Leningrad New York Kaluga region Altai region
Summer Autumn
Girls swinging on a swing.
A child sleeping in the grass. I. T. Lapkin.
An abandoned church.
Carts driving past the church.
A panorama of the settlement. V. N. Osipov narrating.
Colony guards with dogs.
A truck for transporting prisoners.
A sentry on a tower.
A car driving along the road.
Streets and residents of the settlement. I. T. Lapkin narrating.
Books on the shelves.
A car driving through the settlement.
Participants in a rally, interviews with Russian refugees.
Alternation: I. T. Lapkin narrating, footage from a newsreel (throwing down bells from churches) and a feature film (the storming of the Winter Palace).
People giving alms.
Osipov V.N.
Altai Krai Kaluga Region Moscow
Summer Autumn
Chronicle of the late 19th - early 20th centuries: The exit of the royal family.
Troops on a platform.
Nicholas II mounts a horse.
Imperial troops.
Soldiers sing.
Camera operators.
Chronicle of the late 19th - early 20th centuries: The royal family out for a walk.
Service in memory of Nicholas II. Chronicle of the coronation of Nicholas II: A carriage accompanied by footmen and soldiers.
A ceremonial procession of government members and their families.
Service in memory of Nicholas II. Chronicle of revolutionary events: Alternation: a soldier knocks a coat of arms off the wall of a house, troops in the streets.
End of the memorial service, people cross themselves and kiss the crucifix.
A young man with an icon in his hands.
A sculptural group.
Natural panoramas.
Chronicle of post-revolutionary events: The church.
A crowd at the gate.
The toppling of the bell.
The star on the Kremlin tower.
The destruction of the church dome.
People break the bell on the ground.
Rallies at the unveiling of monuments.
Joint rally of the Russian People's Front and the Soviet public foundation "Revived Russia".
Romanov N.A. (Nicholas II) -- state
political and military figure
Emperor of All Russia.
14.05.1896 1917 1920s-1930s
Moscow Leningrad
Summer Autumn Spring
Footage from a newsreel: Public unrest in the streets.
Narrated by I. T. Lapkin.
Foreign footage: Soldiers of the Israeli army.
View from the wall.
Sentries on the tower.
Rally, banners.
Narrated by I. T. Lapkin.
Footage from a feature film: A salvo from the Aurora, storming of the Winter Palace, people dismantling weapons.
Footage from the 1930s: Demonstrations on Red Square.
Protest rallies today.
Fire engine.
People with placards.
Narrated by V. N. Osipov.
Exit from an underground passage.
People on the street, handing out leaflets and newspapers.
People reading announcements.
The bell of a motor ship.
View of the river.
Interview with V. P. Astafyev.
A tugboat sailing along the river.
The bell of a motor ship. "Orthodox camp", a boy swinging on a swing.
Adults and children doing exercises. I. T. Lapkin with children by the river, collecting the catch from the cages. I. T. Lapkin throws the cage into the water.
People are walking across the field.
Story by priest N. I. Barshchukov.
Alternation: a fire is burning, people by the fire, horses in the field.
Astafiev V.P. - front-line soldier
writer
Hero of Socialist Labor. Osipov V.N.
1930s
Moscow Kaluga region Altai region Israel
Summer Autumn
A tent church.
Adults and children praying.
Chronicle of 1935: Double-headed eagles removed from the Kremlin towers.
A worker chisels brickwork.
A star on the Nikolskaya Tower.
Narrated by I.T.Lapkin.
Chronicle of the 1920s: People on the platform. L.D.Trotsky.
Cavalrymen on Red Square.
People on the platform.
Government motorcade guarded by cavalry.
Narrated by I.T.Lapkin.
Chronicle of the 1920s: Protest rallies against the Trotskyists.
Narrated by I.T.Lapkin.
Monastery buildings.
The crown of a tree.
Village houses.
Narrated by V.N.Osipov.
View from the windows of a destroyed building.
Narrated by I.T.Lapkin.
Service in memory of Nicholas II. Chronicle of the early 20th century: Religious procession with the participation of the royal family.
Service in memory of Nicholas II. Chronicle of the early 20th century: People await the emperor's exit.
The imperial family leaves the church and gets into cars.
Service in memory of Nicholas II.
Trotsky (Bronstein) L.D. - statesman and political figure
revolutionary
writer. Romanov N.A. (Nicholas II). Osipov V.N.
1900s 1920s 10/26/1935
Altai Krai Kaluga Region Moscow
Autumn Spring
Chronicle of the early 20th century: Imperial troops.
A burning house.
A demonstration on Red Square.
People trying to put out the fire.
A family among the ashes.
People riding in carts.
Intercut with: a mass exodus of peasants from the villages, emaciated children.
The dead are taken out of their coffins and thrown into a pit.
Intercut with: V.N. Osipov speaking, the streets of Moscow.
Applause from the audience.
People at the microphones.
Foreign newsreel: A view from behind the barbed wire.
A poster.
Demonstrators.
A tank.
A military plane.
A bomb is dropped, an explosion.
Children eating berries in a field. I.T. Lapkin narrates.
Footage from the newsreel: A cart drives out of the yard.
A woman closes the gate.
The owner waters his horse.
A man in a papakha hat.
Horses at the watering hole. I.T. Lapkin narrates.
Footage from the newsreel: A woman nurses babies.
Children sit on the straw.
Narrated by I. T. Lapkin.
Panorama of the settlement.
Barbed wire.
Narrated by V. N. Osipov.
Wooden fence.
Guards with a dog.
Legs of soldiers (view from under the car), people getting into a truck.
Narrated by I. T. Lapkin.
Natural landscape.
Church.
Alternation: people going to church, beggars at the entrance.
Osipov V.N.
1910s-1920s 1950s
Moscow Altai Krai Kaluga Region Israel
Summer Autumn
Mesh fence.
Sentry on tower.
Priest walking along corridor.
Barbed wire, lamp posts.
Priest accompanied by guard, colony yard.
Worship service for prisoners.
Sentry on tower.
Residents of the settlement. I.T.Lapkin typing.
Settlement houses. I.T.Lapkin narrates.
Stills from feature film: Aurora salvo, storming of Winter Palace.
Optina Pustyn, view from window.
Church.
Monastery buildings, monks and visitors on monastery grounds. V.N.Osipov narrates.
View of church through fence. V.N.Osipov.
Natural panorama.
Osipov V.N.
Kaluga region
Summer Autumn