Unknown 1917

Russian life in 1917 was not limited to civil confrontations shootouts demonstrations and rallies Many people lived or at least tried to live peacefully and constructively The great Fyodor Shalyapin sang and staged opera performances in Moscow and Petrograd director Vsevolod Meyerhold played the Lermontov Masquerade on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater and Anna Akhmatova and Sergey Eisenstein applauded him The future writer Konstantin Paustovsky eagerly absorbed impressions about the life of summer and autumn Moscow And in the Moscow region estate LopasnyaZachatievskoe a happy accident led to the discovery of the longest manuscript by AS Pushkin who was considered lost The film is built on cinema and photo chronicles of a century ago