"Moscow - Batum" (2005)

Black and white photography - window, light bulb.

Panorama of desk, inkwell, writing utensils.

Underwood typewriter box, decanter.

Folders with papers and manuscripts.

Close-up - fire, cigarette being lit, smoke in the frame.

In the photograph - M. A. Bulgakov wearing pince-nez.

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - depot gates opening, trams leaving, in the frame a girl tram driver, in the frame a street, people, a traffic policeman, a tram passing by, in the frame signs, people in trams, Moscow streets, passers-by, cabbies, in the frame M. I. Kalinin, "all-Union elder".

Title page of Bulgakov's manuscript "Heart of a Dog".

Various black and white photographs of Joseph Stalin.

Pages from Stalin's file, in the frame photographs of him in his youth.

Close-up - Stalin's face.

Group photograph of Stalin, Voroshilov, Kaganovich, Andreyev and others.

Black and white photography - the elevator cabin goes up (shot from below, from the shaft).

The elevator door closes, a hand presses the doorbell.

Panorama of the photograph - Stalin and his comrades-in-arms are in the frame.

The photograph shows Bulgakov with a cigarette.

Black and white chronicle - Moscow, the Kremlin, embankment, the Moscow River, bridge, etc.

Black and white photography - night, the facades of houses are illuminated one by one.

Chronicle of the 1930s - Stalin on the podium.

Black and white photography - the pendulum of a large clock.

Chronicle of the 1920s-1930s - the foyer of the theater (Moscow Art Theater), a man wipes Stanislavsky's portrait, Nemirovich-Danchenko stands in the doorway.

Poster for the play "The Days of the Turbins".

Chronicle of the 1920s-1930s - theater (Moscow Art Theater), empty hall, stage, curtain.

Panorama of the curtain with a seagull at the Moscow Art Theatre.

The photographs show actors from the Moscow Art Theatre in Bulgakov's play "The Days of the Turbins." Chronicle of the 1920s and 1930s - a theatre, a hall, spectators applauding.

Chronicle of the 1920s and 1930s - Moscow streets, people, cars, cabbies, a newsstand, etc. in the frame.

The photograph shows the building of the Vakhtangov Theatre.

Various photographs with scenes from the play "Zoyka's Apartment." Chronicle of the 1920s and 1930s - spectators in the theatre, at performances, standing up from their seats and applauding.

The building of the Moscow Art Theatre.

Spectators in the hall and in the boxes applauding the actors.

Stalin in the box, smiling, applauding.

Panorama of the grandfather clock, a pendulum in the frame.

The photograph shows Bulgakov with a cigarette.

Chronicle of the 1920s - Moscow, streets, pedestrians, cabbies.

The seller puts black caviar from a large jar on the table.

A rotating display case with bottles of alcohol.

The seller wraps the bottle in paper.

Grapes and fruit are put into a bag.

The deli department in the store.

The cashier punches a receipt on an old cash register.

The gramophone record is spinning.

In the frame, a woman is smoking, a man is smoking.

A feast, a festive table is being set.

The gramophone record is spinning.

Couples are dancing in a room.

Photos of actors of the Moscow Art Theater (interspersed with shots of a party, dancing to a gramophone, etc.).

Chronicle of the 1920s - evening Moscow, embankment, river, bridge, lights of the night city.

In the frame, the facade of an apartment building, trees.

In the photographs is Lyubov Evgenyevna Belozerskaya, Bulgakov's second wife.

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - Moscow streets, tram, motorcycle, a train passing by, the Black Sea, resorts, embankments, Sochi in the frame, rotunda gazebo, the building of the Marine Station, beaches, vacationers, the seashore in the frame.

Panorama of the treetops.

Chronicle of the 1920s - different cities, people on the streets, trams, etc.

In the photo, director Tairov.

Photographs from performances.

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - Moscow, people on the city streets, cars, trams, trolleybuses, traffic lights, etc.

Photograph of Stalin.

B/w photography - grandfather clock, pendulum.

Photograph of Bulgakov in a frame on the wall.

Close-up - tea with lemon in a glass.

Panorama of Stalin's portrait in a frame on the wall.

Close-up - tea with lemon in a glass.

Chronicle of the 1920s - a tram is moving, people are hanging on the running board.

The frame shows a man with some kind of machine on the street, people are standing nearby (the frames are interspersed with photographs of Bulgakov, a frame with a glass of tea and a portrait of Moliere).

An hour with a lemon in a glass holder, a panorama of shadows on the wall.

B/W photography - a panorama of Red Square.

Gears of a large clock, a bell on the Spasskaya Tower, a view from the tower of Red Square.

A chronicle of the 20s-30s - Stalin is in the frame.

The photograph shows OGPU employees, a man is carrying a stack of folders with cases.

A chronicle of the 20s-30s - a printing press, printing newspapers.

Photo by M. Bulgakov.

Chronicle of the 1910s - pre-revolutionary Russia, people, ladies, officers on the street, waiters with dishes at a reception, dances, carriages, carriages on the street, etc.

Chronicle of the 1910s - explosion, demonstration, the war of 1914, trenches, battles, horsemen on horses on the street of the city, trumpeter, soldiers at war, cavalry regiment, etc.

Photograph of Bulgakov.

Old typewriter.

Text is being typed on a sheet of paper.

Black and white photography - logs are burning, fire is in the frame.

Sheets of the manuscript are burning.

An old typewriter is in the frame.

Hands are typing on a typewriter.

Text is being typed on a sheet of paper.

Photograph - Mayakovsky's funeral, the poet in a coffin.

Chronicle of 1930 - the funeral of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, people are carrying a coffin, a crowd of people is in the frame, the coffin is being lifted onto a pedestal.

Photo - Bulgakov at Mayakovsky's funeral, writers Ilf, Petrov and Olesha nearby.

In the photo, Mikhail Bulgakov.

Chronicle of 1930 - the funeral of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Black and white photography - panorama of an old wall telephone.

Panorama of a table, in the frame a pack of cigarettes, an ashtray, a smoking pipe, writing instruments, telephones.

Panorama of electrical wires.

In the photo, Mikhail Bulgakov.

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - Moscow, the river, the embankment.

Close-up - Stalin's face in the photo.

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - the Moscow Art Theater, the theater foyer, a man wiping Stanislavsky's portrait.

Spotlights in the frame.

Fragment from a black and white film.

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - in the frame actors of the Moscow Art Theater, Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Rehearsal, reading of the play at the table.

In the frame: Stanislavsky.

In the photo: Mikhail Bulgakov.

In the photo: Mikhail Bulgakov with actors in a radio studio.

In the photos: Mikhail Bulgakov as a judge and in an airplane.

Ripples on the water, glare of the sun, a pistol being thrown into the water.

In the photo: Elena Sergeevna Shilovskaya, Bulgakov's third wife.

In the photos: Shilovskaya with her family, Shilovskaya's mother.

Ripples on the water.

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - carriages, trams, evening city, neon signs, illumination, traffic.

Black and white photography - grandfather clock, pendulum.

In the photo: Mikhail Bulgakov.

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - people in the theater auditorium (the shots are interspersed with a photo of Stanislavsky, Mayakovsky in a coffin, the curtain of the Moscow Art Theater, a portrait of Stalin).

Chronicle of the 20-30s - a steamship on the river, a railway iron bridge across the river, a passage past the locks (locks of the Moscow Canal), in the frame a monument to Stalin, a parade of athletes on Red Square, the locomotive "Joseph Stalin", the tank "Stalin", a parade on Red Square, young people walking with flowers and a huge portrait of Stalin.

In the photographs - Joseph Stalin.

Chronicle of the 20-30s - Stalin in the theater, in a box, together with Voroshilov and other associates, applauding the actors.

In the photograph, Stalin is looking at a bust of Lenin.

Chronicle of the 20-30s - Stalin with a pipe, saying something, smiling.

In the photograph - Olga Sergeevna Bokshanskaya.

In the photograph - Elena Sergeevna Shilovskaya.

B/w photography - a grandfather clock, a pendulum.

Panorama of a lamp on a desk, in the frame a framed photograph of Shilovskaya.

The frame shows a page from the diary of Elena Shilovskaya.

In the photograph - Bulgakov with Shilovskaya.

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - a tram, a girl tram driver, in the frame Moscow, Lubyanka Square, trams, passers-by, cabbies, carriages, etc.

Chronicle of the 1930s - people on the streets of Moscow, trams, cars, the square in front of the Bolshoi Theater.

Various shots with trams.

Title page - Gogol's "Dead Souls".

Fragment from the play at the Moscow Art Theater "Dead Souls".

Close-up - Stalin's face and Bulgakov's face in the photographs.

Chronicle of the 1930s - Stalin in the frame.

Close-up - text from Bulgakov's letter.

In the photograph - Mikhail Bulgakov.

Excerpt from Shilovskaya's diary.

Pages of Bulgakov's manuscript "The Master and Margarita".

In the picture - Mephistopheles.

Excerpt from Shilovskaya's diary.

The photographs feature the actor Kaluzhsky and his wife Olga Bokshanskaya.

The frame shows the facade of the building, a panorama of trees.

The State Kremlin Palace.

An office in the Kremlin, with a portrait of Lenin on the wall.

The photograph shows Stalin with his comrades.

A photograph of Stalin with a pipe is interspersed with shots of a children's carousel, masks, etc.

Black and white photography - a grandfather clock, a pendulum.

A chronicle of the 1930s - shop windows, people on the city streets, mannequins, women's clothes in a store, a double-decker bus on the road, cars, etc.

The photograph shows Mikhail Bulgakov.

The photographs show Bulgakov's family, apartment, office, desk.

The photograph shows Elena Sergeevna Shilovskaya.

Photographs of the American embassy.

The photographs show Shilovskaya, various celebrities, Stalin.

Black and white photography - a prison, cells, bars, bolts, etc.

The prison building, a watchtower, a guard in a sheepskin coat with a rifle in the frame.

Chronicle of the 1930s - an orchestra playing, dancing couples in the frame.

B/W photography - a deserted street, autumn, a couple walking in the distance.

It is raining, a puddle and fallen leaves are in the frame.

Grandfather clock, pendulum.

In the photographs - Markov and Vilenkin.

Grandfather clock, pendulum.

In the photograph - Mikhail Bulgakov.

In the photographs - Markov and Vilenkin.

In the drawing - Mephistopheles.

In the photograph - Shilovskaya.

Close-up - Bulgakov's face in the photograph.

Chronicle of the 1930s - winter, snow, a tram passing by, the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin.

In the photograph - Bulgakov with his wife Elena Shilovskaya.

Chronicle of the 1920-30s - hands typing on a typewriter.

In the photographs of the 1930s - writers, military personnel, Genrikh Yagoda on Red Square at the parade.

Chronicle of the 1930s - a man with a jackhammer, factories, workshops, industrial construction, harvesting, combines, a weaving shop, military equipment, tanks, Stalin on the tribune on Red Square.

Chronicle of the 1930s - people resting, walking, riding a carousel in the park.

In the picture, a girl is assembling the word "STALIN" from cubes.

Pages of the manuscript of Bulgakov's play "Batumi".

Chronicle of the 1920s-30s - Moscow Art Theatre, theater foyer, a man wiping Stanislavsky's portrait.

Chronicle of the 1930s - Moscow, train station, platform, "Moscow-Sochi" train, train compartment, buffet.

Switch on the railway.

A train is moving, wheels, rails, trees and houses flash in the frame.

Chronicle of the 1930s - Stalin in the frame, trains are moving, trees, stations, landscapes, bridges, etc. flash by.

Chronicle of the 1930s - two trains are moving towards each other (shot from the roof of the train).

In the frame is a lightning telegram to Bulgakov from Vilenkin.

Chronicle of the 1930s - old houses and a temple are being demolished in Moscow, a tram passes by, in the frame is a girl tram driver.

Bulgakov's photograph is interspersed with shots of a girl tram driver.

The drawing depicts Mephistopheles.

Portrait of Stalin.

Black and white photography - a grandfather clock, the pendulum stops.

A page from Shilovskaya's diary - "Misha has died".

Chronicle of the 1930s - a tram passes along the street (view from above).