Brage Haulers on Kama

The evacuation of the Russian Museum during the Great Patriotic War is a littleknown and dramatic episode of Russian history The echelon with paintings by Repin Levitan Serov Shishkin Rublev icons and other priceless treasures in August 1941 reached Gorky from Leningrad There the valuables were reloaded onto a barge which went deep into Russia The destinations were the city of Molotov as Perm was then called and the city of Solikamsk The film tells about how they lived in the evacuation how they worked and why after the war the participants of these events did not want to remember those difficult times