Drawing lessons. (2010)

There are various children's drawings in the frame.

A photo on the table (a man and a girl).

Says psychologist, teacher Dmitry Georgievich Kropotin.

Photos of children.

Ilya Mikhailovich Bronstein, a history teacher, speaks.

Chronicle of the 40-50s - Leningrad from a height (panorama), children playing on the street, Griboyedov Canal, bridge, Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, city streets, monument to Peter the Great, reflection in the river, graduates walking around the city.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - a German soldier is shooting, a tank is driving across the field, a German plane, an airplane is shooting at a column of people on the road, explosions, shots, tanks, there is a battle, a burning village, people are running from a fire, killed families, children in the frame, German soldiers enter the village in formation.

This is Bronstein speaking.

A children's drawing about the war.

This is Bronstein speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - people on the streets of the city, an air alert, everyone is running to bomb shelters, children are running in the frame, German planes are in the sky, bombs are being dropped on Leningrad, Soviet gunners, anti-aircraft gunners are shooting at planes, shots are in the frame, a falling plane, a panorama from above on the city, etc.

Says Kropotin.

A children's drawing on the theme of war.

Says Kropotin.

Children's drawings on the theme of war.

B/w photographs of the war years alternate with children's drawings about the war.

German planes from children's drawings are in the frame.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - bombs fall on Leningrad, explosions in the frame, destroyed houses, rubble, burning buildings, children run, an apartment destroyed by an explosion, orderlies carry away the wounded on stretchers, firefighters extinguish houses after bombing, a burning building in the frame, etc.

Children's drawings on the theme of war.

A page from a letter from a girl from besieged Leningrad.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - evacuation of children from besieged Leningrad, young children walk along the catwalks with their teachers, board boats and barges.

Photos of evacuated children.

Children's drawings on the theme of war.

B/w shooting - railway track, rails.

B/w photos - houses destroyed by bombing, rubble, people in ruins, killed civilians in Leningrad, people on the streets of the city, children in a bomb shelter, consequences of air raids, dead, blockade, queue for boiling water, exhausted children, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - the barrel of a gun rises up, gunners are in the frame, shots from guns on the ground, from a warship, etc.

Animated children's drawings on the theme of war.

Says Kropotin.

Animated children's drawings on the theme of war.

This is Bronstein speaking.

Chronicle of the 40s - children in kindergarten, drawing with pencils, drawings on the theme of war in the frame.

Various children's drawings about the war.

B/w photos of the war years - tankers, sailors, captured Germans, Soviet soldiers, officers, etc.

Says Kropotin.

In the b/w photo, children at the bust of Stalin.

Says Kropotin.

Poster - Stalin surrounded by children.

Says Kropotin.

A children's drawing about the war.

Kropotin picks up a drawing and talks about it.

Animated children's drawings about the war.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad, the war, the murdered child on the stairs, the winter blockade city, explosions, destroyed buildings, people on the streets, trams left on the tracks, debris analysis, the wounded, the dead, etc.

In the frame, children's drawings about peaceful life.

Bronstein talks about a child's drawing.

There is a child's drawing in the frame.

This is Bronstein speaking.

The propaganda poster "Let's protect the city of Lenin".

Chronicle 1941-1943 - planes in the sky, artillery pieces, German soldiers, houses collapsing from explosions, bombs being dropped, haystacks burning in the field, besieged Leningrad, fighting, gunshots, etc.

A panorama of broken dolls.

B/w photos - children's faces.

A children's drawing about the war.

B/w photo - a small child covered his face with his hands.

There are children's drawings on various topics in the frame.

A children's drawing on the theme of war.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - winter, besieged Leningrad, St.

Isaac's Cathedral, artillery pieces, People on the streets of the city, on sleds, destroyed buildings in the frame, children wrapped up, residents weakened from hunger and cold, queue for water, etc.

B/w photo - a destroyed house in Leningrad.

A page from the girl's blockade diary.

Portrait of Hitler.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - German planes in the air, flags with swastikas, a military parade, German children in the yard of their house, joyful children on holiday, etc.

B/w photos - German families, children, teenagers, Hitler Youth, girls, classroom activities, children in military uniforms with German officers, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Hermann Goering presents awards to German officers, officers smile.

Children's drawings of children from Nazi Germany.

Ilya Mikhailovich Bronstein, a history teacher, speaks.

Animation from children's drawings.

Bronstein looks at the rainbow drawing, analyzes it.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - besieged Leningrad, people in the library, reading, writing something, an elderly man eating bread.

B/w photos - a piece of blockade bread on a newspaper, people on carts, sleds transporting the bodies of the dead, the dead on the streets, the bodies are buried in mass graves.

Children's drawings on the theme of the blockade.

B/w and color drawings from the cycle "Besieged Leningrad".

A child's drawing is a clock face, the meal time is indicated.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - besieged Leningrad, patrol on horseback, searchlight beams in the sky.

Children's drawings on the theme of war.

Says psychologist, teacher Dmitry Georgievich Kropotin (comments on the children's drawing).

There is a watercolor on the wall, depicting a house and a tree.

Says Kropotin.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - The Road of Life, Ladoga, trucks driving on water, besieged Leningrad, children in the frame, military planes in the sky, shells, grenades are made at the factory, girls, women work, the inscription on the tank "For Leningrad", an armored train in the factory workshop, a workshop for the production of shells, steelworkers in the frame.

B/w photo - broken clock on the building.

Chronicle of 1943 - anti-aircraft guns are firing, volley fire, soldiers on a tank, infantry is running, fighters in white masks, tanks are driving across the field, there is a battle, a machine gun is firing, soldiers are running to attack, etc.

Fragments from children's drawings appear on the chronicle.

Children's drawings on the theme of war, victory.

Children, 3rd grade, draw at their desks in a drawing lesson.

Panorama of the classroom, children.

Large - brushes, palette.

Children draw.

Drawings of modern children on the theme of the Great Patriotic War.

Kropotin goes through children's drawings, examines them.

There are children's drawings about the war in the frame.

Says Kropotin.

Animated children's drawing.

Cans labeled Cola and Pepsi appear on the screen.

Chronicle 1943 - Leningrad, residents of the city on a clean-up day, remove snow, ice, garbage from the streets, clear rubble, roads, remove cloth from the Admiralty spire, residents of the city on the analysis of rubble, open statues in the Summer Garden, return the figures of horses, Samson, etc.

Children's drawing - the first trams are being launched in Leningrad.

Chronicle of 1943-1945 - Leningrad, trams go on routes, a carriage driver in the cabin, people enter the tram cabin, people ride on the running boards, a man repairs the battery in the apartment, girls wash the roofs of houses, workers in the workshops of factories, return exhibits to museums, ballet is given in the theater, etc.

Drawing of a Leningrad boy - the house of Leningrad.

Chronicle 1945-1950 - Leningrad, new houses are being built, neighborhoods, in the frame people on the streets of post-war Leningrad, metro, platform, train arrives, people go to the station "Ploshchad Vosstaniya", top view of Leningrad, Neva, houses, park, a girl with her grandmother feeds pigeons, panorama of Leningrad (taken from a height), kids in kindergarten, wash, brush their teeth, laugh, perform at a matinee, dance, draw.

This is Bronstein speaking.

In the frame there are various children's drawings on the theme of war, blockade, etc.