And love him in your heart (1989)

Patients of a psychiatric hospital near Kazan clear a road that opened up due to the shallowing of the Volga.

This road is ancient, dating back to the time of Ivan the Terrible.

The waters of the Kuibyshev Reservoir buried this road in 1956. A city on the river bank, which was affected by the destruction of the road.

The city of Sviyazhsk.

Carved window frames.

Yards and houses in Sviyazhsk.

A church in a river bend.

Laundry is drying on ropes among the trees.

The Assumption Monastery.

A local resident and goats.

A woman is washing clothes in the yard.

The stove is stoked, which heats water for washing.

Sviyazhsk is home to 352 residents, patients of the psychiatric hospital and pupils of an auxiliary boarding school.

An elderly woman recalls the years of the civil war.

Patients of the psychiatric hospital are walking along a path.

A sunken barge on the Sviyaga River.

A woman is preparing firewood.

A former nurse examines an old house and talks about the prisoners of the colony that was located in the Assumption Monastery.

The view from this house onto the territory of the psychiatric hospital.

Ushanka hats lie on the shavings.

The graves of prisoners.

Cathedral against the backdrop of a garbage dump.

Church service.

A lamp is burning in front of an icon.

Elderly women pray to icons in their homes.

Goats graze on a hill, part of a church dome is visible.

Part of a tombstone from an Orthodox cemetery is lying around.

A knocked-down cross on a church.

A car trailer without wheels.

A sign on it stating that people were transported on the trailer.

Laundry is drying on the fence.

Portraits of patients in a psychiatric hospital.

Meeting of Sviyazhsk residents.

Speeches by residents.

Portraits of residents.

People listening to M. Gorbachev.

Empty pots from the dining room can be seen in the doorway.

Footage of M. Gorbachev’s speech.

A ship with tourists arrives at the island.

People take pictures against the backdrop of the monastery.

Portraits of elderly residents of Sviyazhsk against the backdrop of their homes.

Bust of Lenin.

The road disappeared in the summer.

View of the island from the top of the monastery bell tower.

Along with the panorama of the city, an excerpt from the chronicle of Ivan the Terrible's campaign against Kazan is read, in which the beauty of the place where Sviyazhsk was built is praised.

The excerpt ends with the words "and love him in your heart."