Unknown Russia (1920-1929)

A map showing Prague, Moscow and the Volga.

A view of the Volga River.

Carts with luggage on the ice of the frozen Volga in winter.

Ice drift.

Blocks of ice.

The steppe adjacent to the Volga.

Primitive houses of local residents - a theater /as they are designated in the credits/.

The prayer of the head of the family.

The yard.

A woman and a man go to work.

Vegetable gardens.

An irrigation device.

A camel-driven brace.

Work in the vegetable garden.

A primitive stove for cooking.

A meal.

Tatars eat.

Matchmaking.

The groom arrives to see the bride.

The conspiracy.

A conversation in a tent.

The groom arrives for the bride.

The bride gets into the kibitka.

She is covered with a felt mat.

The caravan sets off on its way to the groom's house

The bride enters the groom's house.

Conversation in front of the house.

Presentation of the kalym.

Common prayer.

A camel in front of the house.

The bride's relatives set off on their return journey.

A mill.

A village.

A crowd of residents.

National wrestling competitions.

Wrestlers.

A boat sails along the Volga.

A sailboat on the Volga.

The Volga floods.

Flooded meadows, groves.

A boat on the water.

A map.

The steppe.

Kalmyk tents.

Information about the Kalmyks.

Types of Kalmyks: an old man, a girl, children.

The Kalmyks set off with their herds.

Construction of the tent.

Children's games.

The tent is lined with skins.

Ready tents

Kalmyks at a tent.

Slaughtering a sheep.

Cooking soup.

Anti-Soviet caption about the revolution that brought "war and famine" is made unattainable for Kalmyks.

Milking a mare.

Woman doing needlework.

Examples of Kalmyk artistic handicrafts: pipes, belts. "Meeting" of Kalmyk families.

Elder and others drinking wine.

Folk dances.

Kharan-zurun dance.

Orchestra.

Group of Kalmyks.

Kalmyk beauties.

Caption about Kalmyk beliefs.

Houses in the steppe.

Herds.

Tall ritual mast in front of the local temple.

Common prayer.

Kalmyks entering the temple

Czechoslovakia.

Exit from the temple.

Kalmyks in front of the temple.

Lamas at the sacred ritual mast.

Kalmyks go home.

Lama sprinkles believers from the mast.

Examples of Kalmyk writing /sacred books/.

Folk wrestling competitions.

National dances.

Performance of folk melodies on the balalaika.

Scheme of sacred places near the temple.

Circumambulation of ritual drums.

National pipes and cymbals.

General view of the original architecture.

Figure of Buddha in the temple