The film is dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of the Russian writer Vladimir Stasov's birthday.
Film about Russia's artistic and music critic, art historian V. Stassov, which is a party ideologue and creative life of the association Peredvizhniki and creative community of Russian composers of the "Mighty Handful." Photos, portraits VV Stasova. Portrait of the composer Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, C. A. Kyuts. Fragments from the operas of Glinka's "Ruslan and Lyudmila" and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. " Portrait of Mikhail Glinka. Pictures Peredvizhnik Repin, VG Petrov, INKramskoy and others. Illustrative material from the collection of VV Stasova: engraving with a portrait of Peter I, monuments, ornamental sketches, photographs from the life of convicts, and others. Bolshoi Theater, Moscow Conservatory, Concert Hall of the Tchaikovsky, the State Public Libraries and the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad.
Hall of Leningrad city and regional court, where justice was involved author "Musical liars" Vladimir steels - LS., MS., PNRM., CU.
Dock - CU.
Portraits of Vladimir Stasov - CU. (In different years).
Engraving of St.
Petersburg and the second half of XIX century - LS.
The city of Leningrad, the building of the Academy of Fine Arts - LS.
Academy of Fine Arts - MS. (From the inside).
Picture of students of the Imperial Academy of Arts in religious and mythological subjects - different.
Photo of a group of young artists - MS. (From left).
Animation: an exhibition of artists-Wanderers - LS.
Paintings of the Wanderers' Zemstvo dines »- MS.;« At the threshold of school »- CU., PNRM.;« Unequal Marriage »- CU. (From left), etc.
Piano in the Rimsky-Korsakov Museum in Leningrad - CU., PNRM., MS. (From left); PNRM. the keys - CU.
Portraits of composers of the "Mighty Handful" - Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Cui - CU.
Portrait of the composer Glinka - CU.
The influx of a house in Ertelevom Lane, where the composer lived and where they often came to visit Stasov
Figure: the composer at the piano Glinka - LS.
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow - MS., CU.; PNRM. with chandeliers at the audience - LS.
A scene from the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila" composer Glinka (synchronous) - MS., LS.
Cheering - MS., LS.
Animation: St.
Petersburg, the building of the Public Library, Hall Library - LS.
Table in the library, for which he worked Stasov, who heads the art department Library - CU.
PNRM. the bookshelves - MS., PNRM.
Portrait of Vladimir Stasov, working at the desk in the library - CU. (From left).
Engravings depicting Peter collected V. Stasov - CU., MS.
Books with illustrations that display life and the life of Russia XIX century.
Photo: monuments - CU.
Photos: famine in the Volga - MS.; Life convicts - MS.; Bookmark Petersburg water - LS.
Magazine "Bell» - CU.; Newspaper "Iskra» - CU.
Portrait of Vladimir Stasov - CU.
Books, brochures Vladimir Stasov - CU., PNRM.
Exhibition artists Wanderers - LS., PNRM.
Painting by Nevrev "Bargaining» - LS.
Perov painting, etc. - are different.
Portrait of Mussorgsky - CU.
Mussorgsky letter to his friend and mentor, Vladimir Stasov - MS.
Desktop Vladimir Stasov with the developments of the libretto "Khovanshchina" and other works - MS., CU.
Scenes from Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov": the scene in the tavern, the scene at the stern of the opera "Boris Godunov" (synchronous) - Various.
Photos: scenes from operas set the Imperial Theater - LS., MS.
The door opens, the courtroom - LS., Hitting, MS.
Dock - CU.
The city of Leningrad - MS. (Evening).
Portrait of Mussorgsky Repin - CU., MS., Hitting.
Repin's portrait - CU.
Stasov and Repin - MS.
Repin's painting, "Boatmen", "Religious Procession in Kursk Province", "Unexpected" and fragments of the paintings - different.
Exhibition Wanderers - LS.
Portraits Stasov - CU., MS.
The city of Leningrad - LS., MS., CU.
Portrait of Leo Tolstoy - CU.; Stasov, Tolstoy and others - CU. (From left).
Photo - Stasov and Shalyapin - CU.
Samuil Marshak - CU.
Photo: Stasov and fifteen Marshak - MS.
Newsreel of the 20's.:
Entrance to the cinema "Illusion» - MS.; Going audience - CU., PNRM.
Pianist - CU.; Demonstration movie.
Hall of the museum, the paintings - MS., PNRM., LS.
The people at the posters - CU.
The audience in the concert hall - LS., PNRM., LS.