Knots for memory (2006)

The Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall.

Carnations lying on granite.

The flame of the Eternal Flame, a sentry on duty.

Fragments of statues and sculptures.

The disk of the sun behind the clouds.

Winter rural landscape, panorama of an Orthodox church.

Battlements of the Kremlin Wall.

Grass growing between the cobblestones.

Photograph of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky opposite the GUM building, fragments of the monument.

Views of the monument and carvings on the stone of the pedestal.

Photograph of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in the early 20th century.

Newsreel: view of Red Square in winter in the 1910s.

People at the Spassky Gate.

Horse-drawn transport on one of the streets of Moscow in winter.

Views of the Moscow Kremlin and the city center in the early 20th century.

Cabbies with passengers on sleighs pass by.

A policeman passes the Tsar Cannon.

Women on a ski trip.

An infantry company marches through the Kremlin.

Photographs of the unveiling of the monument to A.S. Pushkin on Tverskoy Boulevard in 1880. Portrait of Pushkin.

The face of Pushkin's sculpture.

Photographs of Tverskoy Boulevard in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, with a monument to Pushkin erected on it.

Photographs of the Passion Monastery in the early 20th century.

Photograph of the chapel erected at the Ilyinsky Gate in memory of the heroes of Plevna.

Sculptural decorations of the chapel.

Cross on the chapel.

Photograph of the monument to Ivan Fedorov erected in 1909 near Tretyakovsky Proezd.

Fragments of the monument.

Fragment of the text of the first book published by Ivan Fedorov.

Inscription on the pedestal of the monument.

Photograph of the unveiling of the monument.

Photograph of the monument to N.V. Gogol erected on Arbatskaya Square.

Fragments of the monument.

Bas-reliefs on the pedestal depicting the heroes of Gogol's works.

Newsreel from 1912: panorama of the ceremonial event in honor of the unveiling of the monument to General M.D. Skobelev.

Removing the veil from the monument.

Soldiers lay wreaths at the pedestal of the monument.

Photograph of Skobelev.

Image of the monument to Skobelev on a postcard from the 1910s.

Newsreel: panorama of Theater Square, the buildings of the Bolshoi and Maly Theaters in the 1910s.

Demonstration in honor of the opening of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on the streets of Moscow in the summer of 1920. Delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern dance on the fragments of double-headed eagles knocked down from the walls of the Kremlin palaces.

Lenin V.I. waiting for a car after the end of the First Congress on Extracurricular Education on May 6, 1919. Demolition of the monument to Alexander II in the Kremlin in 1918. Workers smash the monument to pieces.

Demolition of the monument to Alexander III. The toppling of domes and crosses from Orthodox churches.

The destruction of Orthodox churches by explosions.

A view of one of the rallies.

Columns of the demonstration come out onto Red Square (above).

The participants of the demonstration carry red banners.

A view of one of the Moscow streets in the 1930s, the top of the Palace of Soviets building is visible (combined shooting).

A view of the Palace of Soviets against the background of cityscapes (animation, combined shooting).

Panorama of the building of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Sculptural bas-reliefs of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Dismantling of the iconostasis and inventory of church utensils in 1931. A worker chops off frescoes by Vasnetsov inside the temple with a chisel.

The collapse of the building of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior as a result of an explosion.

Panorama of the future construction site of the Palace of Soviets, clearing away rubble (above).

Women swim in the Moscow swimming pool in the 1970s.

A view of the Moscow swimming pool.

Planes fly over the statue of Lenin installed on top of the Palace of Soviets (animation).

Sculpture by V. Mukhina "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman".

Sketches for the sculpture.

Newsreel from 1937: installation of the sculpture.

Welder at work.

View of the Eiffel Tower and part of the territory of the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937. Sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" installed in front of the Soviet pavilion of the exhibition.

Pedestal with an eagle installed opposite the pavilion of Nazi Germany.

Hitler during a conversation with politicians.

View of the sculpture and the Soviet pavilion at the Paris Exhibition, fragments of the monument.

People ride the carousel in the Park of Culture and Leisure.

Portraits of the sculptor I. Martos and Emperor Alexander I. Photograph of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square in the early 20th century.

Newsreel: panorama of Red Square in the 1920s.

Wooden mausoleum on Red Square.

Graves near the Kremlin walls.

Burial in the Kremlin wall.

Bas-relief on the Kremlin wall, erected in 1918. Monument to Minin and Pozharsky in front of the GUM building.

Panorama of Red Square in the first half of the 1920s, alternating with photographs of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky.

Views of Moscow streets in the early 1930s.

Dismantling the protective wooden shields of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky after its transfer to St.

Basil's Cathedral.

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky near the walls of St.

Basil's Cathedral.

A car drives along a Moscow street in 1927. View of Strastnaya Square (above).

Demolition of the Strastnoy Monastery building in 1937. Panorama of the rail track laid across Gorky Street to move the Pushkin monument (above).

Views of the Pushkin monument against the backdrop of advertisements on the walls of buildings.

Panorama of part of the monument's fence.

Views of the head of Gogol's statue.

Photographs of the Donskoy Monastery in the early 1950s.

Photograph of the Gogol monument on the territory of the Donskoy Monastery necropolis.

The Gogol monument in Moscow on Nikitsky Boulevard today, panorama of the old Moscow courtyard.

Newsreel from 1952: panorama of the rally in honor of the opening of the Gogol monument on Gogolevsky Boulevard (top).

The speaker's speech.

Removing the veil from the monument.

Fragment of the monument.

Inscription on the pedestal.

The ZIS-110 automobile drives along a city street.

Automobile traffic on the streets of Moscow in the first half of the 1950s.

View of the Mossovet building, fountain in the park in front of the building.

Chairman of the Moscow City Council Yasnov speaks from the podium at a rally in honor of the unveiling of the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky in 1954. Rally participants applaud.

Photographs of Skobelevskaya Square.

Newsreel from 1912: removing the veil from the Skobelev monument at the time of its unveiling.

Side view of the Skobelev monument.

Dismantling of the Skobelev monument in 1918. A conductor directs the orchestra at one of the rallies.

A speaker speaks from the balcony of the building.

Panorama of the rally.

Views of the Freedom Monument, erected on Skobelevskaya Square in 1919. Photographs of fragments of the Nike of Samothrace statue installed on the Freedom Monument.

Photographs of the Freedom Monument and the building of the Lenin Institute.

Newsreel: speech by People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR A.V. Lunacharsky.

The Freedom Monument on Skobelevskaya Square in the first half of the 1920s, passers-by on the square.

View of the monument against the backdrop of the Mossovet building.

Applauding participants in the rally on the occasion of the opening of the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky.

Removing the veil from the monument.

Photographs of I.V. Stalin, alternating with photographs of monuments.

View of Tverskaya Square with the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky in the 2000s.

Fragments and decorations of the monument, the image of St.

George the Victorious on the pedestal.

Inscription on the pedestal.

View of the monument.

Car traffic along the Garden Ring.

Toilet cubicles on one of the sidewalks.

Views of residential buildings.

A horse-drawn cart passes by.

Monument to Yuri Gagarin on Kaluga Square.

Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow, views of the adjacent streets.

Passers-by on the street in the VDNKh area.

Fragment of the sculptural composition.

Monuments to Dzerzhinsky, Sverdlov, Kalinin in the Muzeon Park on Krymsky Val.

Sculptures of Lenin and Stalin in the Muzeon Park.

Sculpture of Stalin with a broken nose.

Monument to Gorky, lying on the ground and covered with bars.

A child at the bust of Lenin.

Monument to Brezhnev in the Muzeon Park.

Passers-by and cars on one of the streets of Moscow.

Monuments to G. Dimitrov and E. Telman, fragments of monuments.

Monument to Engels, stained with bird droppings.

Monument to Mahatma Gandhi on Michurinsky Prospekt.

View of the monument to Lenin.

View of the depot building of the October Railway.

Views of the monument to Lenin on the territory of the depot on a pedestal made of locomotive wheels in 1925, a memorial plaque on the pedestal of the monument.

Chapel-monument to the heroes of Plevna.

Interior view of the chapel, service in progress.

Monument to Sergei Yesenin.

Hooligan inscriptions on the pedestals of the monuments.

Bronze sculpture of actor Yevgeny Leonov as Associate Professor.

People pose for a photographer, leaning on the sculpture.

Monument to Yuri Dolgoruky, dressed as Father Frost.

Dismantling the sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" before restoration.

Details of the dismantled sculpture in the workshop.

Views of Moscow streets, advertising billboards.

View of the new building of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Interior view of the temple.

Unveiling of the monument to G.K. Zhukov in front of the Historical Museum.

Fragment of Zhukov's sculpture.

A veteran salutes the monument to Zhukov.

Monument to Bulat Okudzhava.

Monuments to Emperors Nicholas II and Alexander II. Types of monuments unveiled in Moscow in the 2000s.

Monument to Peter I by Tsereteli.

Monuments to the artist Nikolai Cherkasov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Cyril and Methodius.

Burning lamp.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Eternal Flame is burning.

Flame of the Eternal Flame.