Russian Thebaid (2014)

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Panorama of an old wall scratched with inscriptions, in the frame the tower of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, winter, snow.

Panorama of the buildings and territory of the monastery.

A monk walks through the snow with an icon in his hands.

Panorama of the territory next to the monastery, in the frame an Orthodox church.

A small winding river, in the frame snow, thawed patches, wooden houses.

Water flows in the river, in the frame snow, ice, stones at the bottom.

The former Nilo-Sorskaya Sretenskaya Hermitage, in the frame the old buildings of the former monastery (a psychiatric hospital).

Panorama of the tower (through the iron bars).

A man in the yard puts firewood in a wheelbarrow, pushes the wheelbarrow.

In the frame, workers in overalls in the yard.

A round arch, the gates of the former monastery.

Men in the yard, with buckets.

A woman with a child in her arms goes up to the porch, enters the house.

Men carry buckets of water.

A square ice hole, a man with a shovel in the frame.

Men are carrying buckets of water.

A man is carrying an armful of hay with a pitchfork.

View of the area near the former monastery, in the frame a long white one-story building, a panorama of the tower, a temple.

An old abandoned church, in the frame a wooden barn, laundry drying nearby.

Panorama of the iron door of the barn.

In the frame, architect and restorer Alexander Popov.

Popov is speaking.

In the photo, Popov is chopping wood.

Popov is speaking.

Men are sitting at a table, drinking tea.

A worker in overalls is working with wood, sawing boards.

Carpentry shop, workshop, in the frame boards, machines, etc.

Construction, restoration of a wooden log house, in the frame workers, builders.

Men are lifting logs up.

Work at a construction site, workers are stacking logs, boards.

View of an unfinished wooden one-story building, builders are working on the roof.

A man hammers in logs.

Aerial view of the monastery grounds and buildings.

A flooded skating rink next to the former monastery, teenagers playing hockey.

A square in the town of Kirillov, a fair, rides, people walking.

A stall with felt boots.

The frame shows a fair, goods, children's toys, balloons, etc.

A man grills shashlik on a grill.

People at the fair, a boy knocks down cans for prizes.

Children on an inflatable trampoline.

A boy rides a toy car.

Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, a panorama of the grounds, fortress wall, buildings, towers, temple, etc.

This is Sergey, a student at the Art College of Arts.

This is Ekaterina, a student at the School of Arts and Crafts.

Ekaterina talks about her works, shows figures of animals made of pressed snow.

A little girl plays the flute.

A man lowers into an ice hole, swims.

This is Popov speaking.

Winter, open water, a woman swimming.

Panorama of warmly dressed people near a water body.

View of a rectangular ice hole (water body), a woman swimming, people standing along the perimeter of the water body.

Provincial town, road along houses, people in the frame.

A man on a motorcycle rides by.

Panorama of an old church, a playground, a two-story wooden residential barracks.

An elderly man stirs coals in a stove with a poker.

Fire, coals.

Night, square, fire show, artists in the frame, a performance with fire, different numbers are shown to music.

A yard near a workshop, a man processes something on a machine, sparks fly.

Ferapontov-Belozersky Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery, in the frame the domes of the church, towers, buildings, etc.

In the frame the white church of Elijah the Prophet.

Popov walks to the church, goes inside.

View of the restored church.

Popov is standing in the church, with a wall with an iconostasis behind him.

Popov is speaking.

View of the church ceiling, panorama of the walls, and the iconostasis.

Popov is speaking.

Snowdrifts, a cat.

View of the wall and buildings of the monastery, panorama of a wooden door in the wall (Nilo-Sorskaya Hermitage).

People are walking through a stone arch, along a cobblestone street.

A fair, children are eating shashlik at the table.

The frame shows fairgoers and local residents.

Dog sledding.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan in Kirillov, with a ski run nearby, skiers in the frame.

Children are sliding down a hill on inflatable sleds.

View of an old white church.

Dome of an Orthodox church with a cross.

A man is sawing boards with a chainsaw.

A blacksmith shop, a man is forging.

A carpentry shop, the frame shows boards, blanks, a man is processing wood.

Popov is speaking.

The photo shows Popov with an axe during restoration work.

Popov speaking.

Heads of sculptures, busts in the window.

Monument to Lenin in the city of Kirillov.

Fair, festive events in the city, local residents, Cossacks in military uniform in the frame.

Local residents, children, etc. in the frame.

Fair, attractions, snowmobile rides.

White brick building, inscription on the facade "May, peace, labor".

A man carries garbage, boxes.

A man walks with a bucket.

A man swims in an open body of water (ice hole).

In the frame, patients of a psychiatric hospital (out for a walk, sitting by the walls).

A small river flows, view of the monastery buildings, church, etc.

Ruins of the monastery, wall, gate, view of the lake.

Popov speaking.

In the frame Alexey Laushkin, historian, scientific director of the Solovetsky Marine Museum.

Laushkin speaking.

Stone arch, in the frame the White Sea.

Drawing - image of Satan, the Antichrist (in the form of a red beast).

Panorama of the coast, stones, pieces of ice floes, snow.

Dog at the stone wall - barking, howling.

Winter, coast, sea, stones, snow, ice.

Northern landscape - bare trees, snow, etc. (panoramic photography).

Laushkin speaking.

Yellow-red disk.

Laushkin speaking.

Time-lapse photography - sunset, the solar disk goes beyond the horizon.

Laushkin speaking.

White clouds.

Panorama of bare trees, in the frame a hill on the Bolshoy Solovetsky Island (Sekirnaya Gora).

Holy Ascension Skete of the Solovetsky Monastery.

Northern landscape, in the frame snow, a lonely tree, panorama of a white Orthodox chapel.

Evening, clouds, sunset sky, smooth surface of water, panorama of the shore.

Laushkin speaking.

The frame shows the Solovetsky Monastery, a snow-covered field, a man walking across the field.

Laushkin speaking.

The man is ringing a large church bell.

Panorama of the monastery buildings, the temple.

A huge field in the snow, in the frame are the shadows of the monastery buildings, towers, etc., a man with a dog is walking across the field (shot from above).

Panorama of the shore, in the frame are snow, stones.

View of the domes of the temple on the monastery grounds, the fortress wall, towers, etc., in the frame are football goals with a net on the field.

Priest Vyacheslav Umnyagin speaking (in the background is the iconostasis, a large crucifix).

Panorama of the walls and ceiling of the temple, in the frame are paintings, frescoes, etc. (Solovetsky Metochion in Moscow).

Priest Vyacheslav Umnyagin speaking.

The icon depicts Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow.

Winter, the outlines of the Solovetsky Monastery are visible in the background, bare trees, snow, etc. are in the frame.

A white one-story house, a yard.

Laushkin is speaking.

An Orthodox church, a service is in progress, the frame shows clergy, monks, and parishioners (the Church of Saint Philip of the Transfiguration of the Savior of the Solovetsky Monastery).

Clergy with palm branches.

Faces of clergy and monks.

Panorama of frescoed icons.

View of the Solovetsky Monastery, snow in the frame, a wooden boat on the shore.

Laushkin is speaking.

The frame shows garbage, car parts, laundry drying in the yard, a view of the Solovetsky Monastery.

A man is driving along the road on a three-wheeled motorcycle.

The frame shows the monastery chapel, a gloomy sky, clouds, snow on the road.

Laushkin is speaking.

Monastery, church domes, sky, clouds, and puffballs in the frame.

A monk sings in the church, panorama of the church, iconostasis.

Winter landscape, view of the Solovetsky Monastery, frozen water, boats, shore, bare trees in the frame.

Drawing (popular print from the early 19th century) - Moscow governor Meshcherinov suppresses the Solovetsky Uprising.

Laushkin is speaking.

The drawing shows the Golgotha-Crucifixion Skete of the Solovetsky Monastery and St.

Job.

Summer, panorama of trees, white buildings of the monastery in the frame.

Laushkin is speaking.

Summer, Solovki, Golgotha-Crucifixion Skete in the frame.

Painting on the ceiling of the church, an Orthodox cross in the center, panorama of the walls of the church, iconostasis, prayer book.

Hegumen Herman (Chebotar) is speaking.

Laushkin is speaking.

A monk sings in a church, a panorama of the church, walls, and iconostasis.

The monk finishes singing and says "Christ is Risen".

A view of the monastery in the distance, a brick house in the frame, laundry drying on a line.

Monks walk along the monastery grounds.

Local residents in a village near the monastery, a road, snow, and wooden houses in the frame.

A panorama of a red wooden barracks house, the Solovetsky Monastery visible in the distance.

An old boat on the shore in the frame, the Solovetsky Monastery visible in the distance.

A boy runs across a snowy field.

Laushkin speaking.

The drawing (popular print) shows the bird of paradise Alkonost.

A stone arch, the White Sea in the frame.