That heavenly Russia (1991)

Rural landscapes (panorama), views of forest and river.

Blooming sunflowers.

Processing part of a log with an axe, an axe stuck into the end of a log.

Processing a log with a hand plane.

Geese graze near a greenhouse.

A resident of the village of Vyra, A. Semochkin, walks down the street.

Chickens and chicks in the yard, a view of Semochkin's house, off-screen Semochkin talks about the Russian idea, its renewal in each generation, its vitality, as an indicator of its truth.

An airplane flies in the sky.

Semochkin finishes laying sod in a stack, puts the inventory on a wheelbarrow, takes it, begins cutting the sod and loading it onto the wheelbarrow.

Buildings and streets of a European city, off-screen Semochkin criticizes the West for pumping out Russian resources and destroying nature.

A view of a street in a European city, cars parked by the sidewalks, shop windows, people on the street.

Semochkin, sitting on the grass, discusses the character traits of Westerners, their lack of desire for culture as a "knowledge of God", the difference between Russian and Western cultures, Orthodoxy and its deep penetration into the Russian soul (synchronously and off-screen), a panorama of Semochkin's lands, a horse grazing on the grass.

An airplane flies in the sky.

A view of a rural Orthodox church.

Semochkin leads a horse out of the yard.

A panorama of Manezhnaya Square in Moscow during a rally on August 19, 1991. People are pushing trolleybuses on their hands to build barricades.

Faces of rally participants.

Views of the rally, homemade banners with slogans in support of Yeltsin, Semochkin's reasoning about democracy and monarchy is heard off-screen, he criticizes the party dictatorship in state governance, speaks about the role of the intelligentsia in state-forming revolutionary processes.

Young people are sitting on armored personnel carriers near the House of Soviets of the RSFSR. Panorama of a column of armored personnel carriers with young people sitting on them.

Deputies are trying to talk to an officer, the officer is walking along the column of armored vehicles.

Panorama of a column of armored personnel carriers, the defenders of the House of Soviets do not let it pass.

The defenders of the House of Soviets use one of the armored personnel carriers as a tribune.

People are applauding the tricolor flag, the tricolor flag is on a lifting platform (panorama).

People gather in the streets of Moscow for rallies on August 19-20, 1991, Semochkin's thoughts on perestroika, glasnost, democracy, and the concept of people's freedom are heard in the background.

A broken sign at the entrance to the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU building, people talk to police officers on duty at the entrance.

Residents of Moscow gather at the pedestal of the demolished Dzerzhinsky monument on Lubyanka Square, chip off pieces of stone from the pedestal, a view of the pedestal with offensive inscriptions and a tricolor flag installed.

A man chips off pieces of stone from the pedestal, people around him begin to take them apart for souvenirs.

People stand at the Sverdlov monument, a view of the monument (circular panorama from below).

Issues of the Politika newspaper pasted onto the monument's pedestal, the inscription "Executioner" written in white, faces of rally participants on Teatralnaya Square, a tricolor flag with a double-headed eagle in the hands of one of the rally participants.

Raindrops on the leaves of a raspberry bush, Semochkin's reasoning about the essence of the Russian peasantry, the differences between a peasant and a farmer, and the harm of "de-peasantizing" the country is heard in the background.

Semochkin drives a cow to the pasture, a horse grazes near a log house.

The cows come out of the shallows after drinking.

An airplane flies in the sky.

Semochkin discusses the prospects for further economic and spiritual development of post-Soviet Russia (synchronously).

Reflections of trees in the water, a river landscape.

Algae spread along the river bottom.

Semochkin carries an armful of freshly mown grass to the barn.

The horse's harness and saddle hang on the crossbar of the porch of the house.

Semochkin carries an armful of grass on a pitchfork, throws it on the ground, and begins to feed the rabbits.

A scythe and a rake by the wall of the house.

A horse in Semochkin's yard, Semochkin leads the horse into the stable.

Participants in the events of August 19-21, 1991 in Moscow fraternize with servicemen of the military units brought into the city.

Tricolor Russian flags at the entrance to the building of the Central Committee of the CPSU. View and panorama of Manezhnaya Square during the rally.

Semochkin discusses the paths of Russia's development after the August 1991 events, the choice of a path of development different from the Western one, and the danger of tempting the entire people with a rich life (synchronously).

Rural landscape (panorama).

Panorama of an abandoned house in an old estate.

Panorama of a stream along the edge of a forest.

The sun shines between the tree trunks.

The building of an abandoned manor house, off-screen Semochkin speaks about the development of capitalism in pre-revolutionary Russia, discusses the 1917 revolution, the prospects for today's economic development, and the hostility of capitalism to the Russian idea.

An overgrown alley in the park.

Semochkin walks along the alley and speaks about the main difference between a Russian and a Westerner, the reasons for the main melancholy of Russian existence, the unattainability of the ideal of a "

heavenly Russia", the construction of a new Russia by the Bolsheviks, carried out in the absence of spirituality and turning the country into a concentration camp, the "

Russian idea"

as a condition for the existence of Russia, criticizes the fight against God, the positive aspects of the defeat of the socialist system in Russia (synchronously and off-screen).

A panel with an image of Lenin on the wall of the station, people pass by, an elderly woman walks.

An electronic scoreboard above the entrance to the station building, a panorama of a part of the station building.

Views of the interior of the station, Semochkin's reasoning about the Russian idea and its prospects is heard off-screen.

Carriages on the tracks.

Semochkin discusses the Russian idea and the revival of Russia, the role of the Russian idea in the world (synchronously).

Bark on a tree trunk, a view of part of an alley in an old park, a road running along the edge of a forest.

Panorama of the courtyard of Semochkin's house, outbuildings in the courtyard.

Semochkin's face.

Summer rural landscape, clouds in the sky.