Silver Ball 19.01.2002 (2002)

Soviet military and statesman, participant in the revolution, Fedor Ilyin took the pseudonym of Raskolnikov because of his love for the work of the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Fedor Raskolnikov was Vladimir Ilyich's confidant and carried out Lenin's personal assignments.

Video chronicle:

Nikolay II is surrounded by military men.

His children dance on board the ship.

Pre-revolutionary chronicle.

Street of a small county town, a peasant in the field, a sowing campaign.

The unrest in Petrograd (St.

Petersburg).

They distribute leaflets with the text of Nicholas II's abdication.

Glee.

The address plan of the Peter and Paul Fortress is removed from traffic.

The restaurant is on the street.

Photo of Fedor Raskolnikov.

Embankments of St.

Petersburg, streets of the city.

People's unrest.

Procession, rallies with banners (down with the ministers of the capitalists).

Vladimir Lenin speaks before the workers.

Leon Trotsky.

Civil War.

Red Army men.

The Cabinet of Lenin.

Fragments of the sea battle of the First World War.

Charge shells.

Shoot from ship guns.

Vitaly Wolfe tells the story of Raskolnikov's participation in the operation to flood the Russian fleet in Novorossiysk.

Barge on the river Kama.

Coastal pier.

Detachments of the Red Army.

The photograph of Raskolnikov's first wife was Larissa Reisner, who became the prototype of the main heroine of the play "Optimistic tragedy".

Photo of Anna Akhmatova.

The poet left her memories of Larissa.

Military Petrograd.

Civil War.

The shooting of the prisoners.

Leon Trotsky looks at the telescope on the deck of the ship.

Video footage with Larissa Reisner on a boat.

Appointment of Raskolnikov as commander-in-chief of the Baltic Fleet.

Ships of the Baltic Fleet.

Carts transport the dead.

Appointment of Raskolnikov as Ambassador Extraordinary in Afghanistan.

Kabul.

The city and its inhabitants.

The elephant carries people.

Raskolnikov and his wife Larissa in Kabul, surrounded by members of the Soviet diplomatic mission and the Afghans (video footage).

A man with a red flag is walking along the city streets in Kabul.

Pro-communist rallies in Afghanistan.

Karl Radek is a journalist.

Revolutionary movement in the cities of Europe.

Trotsky with delegates to the Congress in the Kremlin.

Grigory Zinoviev.

Joseph Stalin, Lev Trotsky, Lev Kamenev on the rostrum in front of the delegates.

Kliment Voroshilov.

Moscow.

The Kremlin stars and street lighting are lit.

Joseph Stalin with Kliment Voroshilov, Mikhail Kalinin, Sergo Ordzhonikidze.

The dekulakization is the deportation of "well-to-do peasants" from villages to remote Siberian lands to a settlement.

The messenger is given out to the messengers.

Fedor Raskolnikov was appointed chairman of the General Repertoire Committee, a committee that deals with theatrical censorship.

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Scene of the Moscow Art Theater.

Address plan of the building of the Bolshoi Theater.

Fedor Raskolnikov gets acquainted with his second wife Muza Rzhechitskaya.

Youth dances.

Orchestra.

Pro-communist rallies in Estonia: they carry Stalin's posters.

Meeting of the OGPU NKVD.

State Prosecutor Andrei Vyshinsky at a show trial of the court against the so-called Trotskyites - traitors to the Motherland.

Forwarding of arrested persons to the Gulag.

Photos of prisoners Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev (profile / full face).

Photo by Alexei Rykov, Nikolai Bukharin.

Vitaliy Vulf talks about the meeting between writer Boris Pilnyak and Fedor Raskolnikov.

The author of "The Story of the Unexpected Moon", telling about Stalin's involvement in the death of Frunze, Boris Pilnyak was shot on the day of the death sentence.

Video shots of execution.

Photos of Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Jonah Yakir, Ieronim Uborevich.

Fedor Raskolnikov, who is in Bulgaria, decides not to return to Moscow.

Deceiving the staff of the NKVD, together with their spouse, they leave for Belgium, then for France.

Paris: streets of the city, cathedrals, Eiffel Tower.

In the Soviet Union, Fyodor Raskolnikov was called the enemy of the people.

Raskolnikov wrote an open letter to Stalin, which was published only after the death of the leader.

Raskolnikov tried to commit suicide, but died in a clinic in Nice.

The cemetery where Raskolnikov was buried.

Stills with Stalin: at the parade, with Gorky, in the podium at the Mausoleum.

Photo of the coffin of Stalin.

A woman drinks wine from a portrait of Stalin.