Long ago (2013)

Newsreel: faces of people strolling in a city garden in 1910-1913. A military brass band playing.

People strolling in a city garden.

View of the Moscow Kremlin from a ship sailing along the Moskva River.

People on the street.

A procession of horse-drawn carriages leaves the Spassky Gate for Red Square during a ceremonial event.

The carriages drive along Red Square.

Faces of strolling high school students.

Diving from a ramp on the bank of the Moskva River.

High school girls performing synchronized movements during gymnastics (above).

Wheat bends in the gusts of wind.

Summer landscapes of Central Russia.

Sunrise.

A burning candle and bast shoes on the wall (animation).

Newsreel: views of industrial enterprises of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century, smoke from factory chimneys.

Workers at their machines, production processes in industrial workshops, newsreels alternating with photographs.

Panorama of one of the enterprises (top).

Manufacture of weapons and ammunition at military factories.

Panorama of the workshop of a military plant producing barrels for large-caliber and long-range artillery guns (top).

Workers leaving the plant at the end of their shift.

Panorama of a part of the market near the Kremlin Wall.

Food trade at the market, sellers demonstrating their goods and serving customers.

Sellers of the fish row behind the counters (panorama).

Sellers and buyers at the market.

Spectators at the market look into the eyepieces of the "Magic Lantern", alternating newsreels with erotic images.

Football match at the stadium in Moscow in Zamoskvorechye in the 1910s.

Fans in the stands.

Fight for the ball.

Pole vault competition.

Women's running competition.

Participants in a cycling race cover one of the sections of the distance.

High jump competition.

Performing exercises on the horizontal bar.

Rowing and tug-of-war competitions.

Wrestling duel.

Roller skaters.

Physical education parade at the hippodrome.

Portrait of General of His Majesty's Retinue N.V. Voeikov.

Portraits of Nicholas II and his wife in their youth.

Family photographs of the Imperial Family, the heir and the Grand Duchesses.

Poster dedicated to the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov in 1913. Solemn procession in the Moscow Kremlin dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov, with the participation of Nicholas II, his wife, the heir-tsarevich, members of the Imperial family and officers and generals of His Majesty's Retinue.

Panorama of Red Square filled with people during the anniversary celebrations.

A steamboat with members of the Imperial Family sails along the Volga to Yaroslavl.

Residents of the Yaroslavl province greet the emperor from the river bank.

The steamship approaches the pier.

Nicholas II, his wife, and their entourage disembark.

Nicholas II accepts an icon as a gift from the residents of Yaroslavl.

Representatives of the highest officials present the emperor with bread and salt.

Photographs of Nicholas II with his wife and children at different moments in his life.

Photographs of Nicholas II’s participation in the events for the canonization of St.

Seraphim of Sarov in 1903. Photographs of places associated with Seraphim of Sarov.

Icon of Seraphim of Sarov.

Photographs of Nicholas II among the military, during parades.

Photographs of the palaces of The Hague.

Text of Nicholas II’s proposals at the Hague Conference.

Newsreel: artillery fires during World War I. Shells explode.

German infantry goes on the attack.

Photographs of killed and wounded soldiers, punishment of Russian prisoners of war, destruction as a result of artillery shelling.

Newsreel: dog show (panorama).

A dog climbs up and down a stepladder.

Curling competition in the Grand Duchy of Finland.

Restaurant patrons at tables in the hall.

Spectators enter the cinema.

A piano player.

Spectators in the hall during a film showing, a fragment of a silent film.

Newsreel: warships of the Russian Imperial Navy at anchor (panorama).

A warship on a campaign.

An officer in the deck hatch.

Fleet maneuvers.

Nicholas II with his heir, accompanied by naval officers, walk along the line of the crew of one of the ships.

Photographs of Russian warships built in the early 20th century and participating in the First and Second World Wars.

Newsreel: a torpedo being launched from a submarine.

Submarine propellers.

A torpedo hitting a ship.

Photographs of Russian submarines, a submarine at periscope depth (newsreel).

Photographs of children and families of various classes and estates in Russia in the 1900s and 1910s.

Newsreel: a train arriving at the Sestroretsk railway station during a children's party.

A ceremonial procession of the party participants accompanied by a brass band.

A military brass band playing.

Children playing active games.

Children dancing in the ballroom of the Assembly of the Nobility.

A column of children's shelter children accompanied by a brass band marches along a city street.

Children from shelters at a common table during a festive dinner in the open air.

Homeless children at the entrance to a night shelter for homeless boys.

Children from one of the shelters pray before dinner, sit down at the table, and have dinner.

Boy messengers march in formation under the command of their mentor.

Messengers hand people envelopes with letters.

Children from one of the shelters during evening classes and rest.

Panorama of the center of Moscow.

Photographs showing medical care, everyday life and recreation, and activities of children in shelters and other educational institutions.

Photographs of buildings in children's shelters built with private funds.

Newsreel: view of a city street with a tram line, a cab driver standing at the sidewalk, portrait of patron and merchant Solodovnikov.

Photographs of buildings built in Moscow with Solodovnikov's funds for the poor and large families.

Newsreel: loading barrels onto a ship on the Volga.

Women working on salting fish.

The process of salting fish and sealing barrels with salted fish.

A cage with miners begins its descent into the mine.

Coal mining in a mine and rolling back coal cars.

Photographs of members of gold mining cooperatives.

Newsreel: oil production processes in the Baku oil fields.

Drilling an oil well.

Panorama of the Baku oil fields.

Oil workers at work.

A spurting oil fountain.

Samples of shares of oil and gold mining companies.

Photograph of the gold reserve vault.

Samples of Russian banknotes and gold coins of the early 20th century.

Newsreel: wheels of a train carriage.

Vacationers on the beach in Nice.

Casino goers playing roulette.

A couple of tram carriages drives along a city street.

Views of pilgrimage sites in Palestine.

Photographs of Jerusalem in the early 20th century.

Photographs of Russian pilgrims at the holy sites in Jerusalem, near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Newsreel: summer rural landscape (panorama).

A herd of cows grazing.

A woman tying a sheaf in a field.

Threshing grain with hand flails.

Harvesting with tractor-drawn reapers.

Blacksmiths at work.

Nicholas II checking the operation of an autoplow.

Nicholas II, together with representatives of the provincial government, inspects a laid furrow. P.A. Stolypin in a coffin.

Stolypin's funeral in Kyiv on September 9, 1911, Stolypin's portrait.

Newsreel: peasant settlers from Poltava province before leaving for new lands beyond the Urals.

Peasants carrying things.

Peasants at a map of Siberia.

Train at the platform, passengers boarding the carriages.

Peasant settlers at the carriages drinking with those seeing them off and dancing.

Landscapes outside the carriage window.

Entrance to a tunnel, photographs of peasants settling in new places.

Threshing grain of the new harvest on the threshing floor.

Photo portraits of the largest Russian publishers.

Photographs of high school students, pupils of real schools and rural schools.

Photographs of university buildings and higher educational institutions in the cities of the Russian Empire.

Photograph of an astronomer at a telescope.

Portrait of the great Russian mathematician N.I. Lobachevsky.

Portrait of the creator of the first Russian airplane Mozhaisky, the airplane's flight (fragment of the feature film).

Portrait of D.I. Mendeleyev.

Portraits of Nobel laureates - physiologists Sechenov and Pavlov.

Portrait and photograph of K.E. Tsiolkovsky with airship models.

Takeoff of a spaceship.

Covers of publications of V.M. Bekhterev's works, photographs of Bekhterev.

Portrait of P.N. Yablochkov - the inventor of the electric lamp.

Portrait of the inventor of the radio A.S. Popov.

Bust of the inventor of the tram F.A. Pirotsky against the background of a newsreel with trams.

Portrait of the architect V.G. Shukhov.

Newsreel: checking the springs of a car.

Car wheel.

A car participating in the Kyiv-Berlin-Brussels-Paris-St.

Petersburg race.

The car starts moving.

A company of military motorcyclists passes along the racetrack.

A motorcyclist stops the motorcycle.

Testing an aerosleigh designed by Meller.

Panorama of the Syrets airfield near Kiev.

Airplane takeoff.

Nesterov's plane performing a "loop-the-loop" on August 27, 1913. Views of the railway track.

Steam from the locomotive whistle.

Photographs of the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Photograph of the port of Vladivostok.

Newsreel: a train passes over a bridge.

The firebox of a locomotive opens.

Carriages of passing trains.

Parade of the Life Guards Pavlovsky Regiment in St.

Petersburg. "Wall to wall" competition of cadets.

Sack running competition.

Soldiers performing synchronized gymnastics exercises.

Battalion drill training, practicing drill techniques and movement in formation.

Training soldiers to aim a rifle using a special device.

Cavalrymen laying down horses for prone shooting.

Demonstration performances of cavalrymen of one of the Uhlan regiments of the Russian army.

Cossacks demonstrating trick riding at a gallop.

Photographs of double-headed eagles on the Kremlin towers and crosses on the domes of Orthodox churches.

Photograph of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky.

Newsreel: young soldiers taking the oath in the Moscow Kremlin.

Clergymen of various faiths read the oath to soldiers lined up on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin.

Muslim soldiers kiss the Koran.

An Orthodox priest sprinkles the formation with holy water.

Photographs of servicemen of the Russian Imperial Army, clergymen, and representatives of various classes.

Photographs of Nicholas II and his family during their trips around Russia.

Clouds cover the sun.