Reflections on Herzen's House (1983)

Sunrise over the Moskva River.

Bridge.

A barge is sailing.

Embankment.

A street sprinkler.

Monument to AI Herzen in front of the building of the Gorky Literary Institute on Tverskoy Boulevard (the former Herzen estate).

The door leading to the office-museum of AI Herzen opens.

The interior of the office with photographs on the wall.

Old engravings depicting the events of 1812: Napoleon in the Kremlin, Murat's cavalry on Tverskaya, the Kremlin towers, a general view of the Kremlin, Moscow after the fire.

The pages of the "Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary" are turned (cartoon).

Page 28 of volume 28 of the dictionary with Lenin's article "Marx" signed by V. Ilyin (cartoon).

The spines of the volumes of the encyclopedic dictionary.

The door to Herzen's office closes.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Moscow: traffic on cobblestones, passers-by on the street, a tram passes, people greet M. Gorky on the platform of the train station.

Gorky against the backdrop of the dam under construction.

The building of the Bolshoi Theater.

The cover of a modern edition of M. Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita" (cartoon).

A sign with the inscription "M. Gorky Literary Institute".

Students near the building of the institute, in the lobby.

A student is sitting on the windowsill.

Interview with the rector of the institute V. Pimenov (synchronously).

Panorama of the spines of books by authors, the first graduates of the Literary Institute.

A series of photographs of students of the institute of pre-war and post-war graduations (cartoon).

Newsreel from 1934: The House of Unions during the First All-Union Congress of Writers.

Among those present is M. Gorky.

In the park in front of the Literary Institute, the poetess Margarita Aliger gives an interview (synchronously).

Tree crowns.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Writer V. Lugovskoy speaks.

A tractor with a plow plows the land.

Balloons in the air.

An icebreaker among the Arctic ice.

A demonstration of workers.

Industrial landscapes.

The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

An electric train departs from the platform.

A sign with the inscription "Peredelkino".

Summer landscape of the Moscow region.

Rural cemetery.

Country houses in the village of Peredelkino.

Bridge over the Setun River.

Summer forest, tree tops.

Interview with the poet K. Vanshenkin (synchronously).

Newsreel, 1941: Late autumn, wartime Moscow: A monument to Pushkin, a tram passes, soldiers in white camouflage suits walk along the street, an airship is being pulled along the street, military equipment passes by; a soldier on the roof of a house, an anti-aircraft mount on the street, barriers on the streets.

Winter, 1941: Fighting near Moscow, a tank passes, Soviet soldiers run through the village, take up positions; a gun fires, explosions; soldiers run to the attack; soldiers in a trench; soldiers help the wounded, a soldier carries a wounded man in his arms; Soldiers after a battle by the fire, putting pots on the fire.

Interview with playwright Viktor Rozov (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1941 (summer): Seeing off soldiers to the front.

Those seeing them off on the platform of the Moscow railway station, an orchestra playing, soldiers saying goodbye to their families.

Newsreel from 1945 (spring): A train with demobilized soldiers pulls up to the station, people greet the soldiers.

Photo by poet M. Svetlov.

Photos of teachers of the Literary Institute: A. A. Reformatsky, A. I. Timofeev, S. M. Bondi.

Interview with S. M. Bondi (synchronously) panorama of the shelves with books.

Monument to A. S. Pushkin.

A jacket on the back of a chair.

Writer Yuri Bondarev speaking (synchronously).

Newsreel 1945 (summer): Post-war Moscow - people leaving the club building, city residents dancing in the park.

Applicants at the Literary Institute building.

Interview with K. Vanshenkin (synchronously).

Writer V. Tendryakov speaking (synchronously), panorama of the institute building.

Photo by K. Paustovsky.

Newsreel from 1946-1955: Post-war Moscow - a tram passes by, K. Paustovsky in a tram car talking to the conductor.

Writer L. Leonov in his office at work.

Writers V. Katayev; K. Fedin.

Unveiling ceremony of a memorial plaque in honor of students and staff of the Literary Institute who died in the Great Patriotic War.

Names of the dead. V. Pimenov speaking.

Those present at the memorial plaque.

Newsreel from 1941: Distribution of weapons.

Trains with soldiers leaving for the front.

Seminar in the auditorium of the Literary Institute.

A student reads poetry (synchronously).

Those listening.

Children bathing horses in the river.

Sunset over the river.

Books with portraits of famous writers and poets (cartoon work).

Newsreel: Speech by poet R. Rozhdestvensky from the rostrum.

Writer V. Soloukhin.

Poetess B. Akhmadulina gives an autograph.

Poet Rasul Gamzatov.

Students enter the institute building, go up the stairs.

The facade of the institute building in the evening.