Vesper (1989)

Petushki railway station.

People get into the train car.

The train car.

The landscape outside the windows.

The faces of the people in the train car.

Photos of Russia in the 19th century .

Arrival of the train (chronicle of the 19th century).

The waiting room of the train station.

Old photos.

An old woman with a wand begs for alms.

A policeman is walking around the hall.

Old photos.

Panorama of a long queue, mostly of men, to the wine shop.

People squeeze through the narrow door of the store that has opened.

Library reading room.

Nestor the Chronicler (drawing).

Landscapes.

Princely feasts (drawings).

Princely feast (fragment of a feature film).

The princely army goes on a campaign (fragment of a feature film).

Installation of drawings and fragments from films (battles of Russian soldiers with enemies).

Ivan the Terrible (painting by V.Vasnetsov).

A fragment of the film "Ivan the Terrible".

Panorama of the domes of churches.

Sailing squadron at sea.

A feast, a toast to victory (a fragment of the film "Peter the Great").

A set of peasants in the army (a fragment of the film).

Paintings depicting feasts.

Balls, holidays, feasts, drinking alcoholic beverages (Fragments of films).

Boatmen pull the ship (fragment from the film).

A small orchestra is walking down the street.

Sculptures on the library building named after

Lenin.

Entrance to the library.

A fragment of Repin's painting "The Solemn meeting of the State Council".

Photo of voting at the congress.

A military band is walking down the street.

Demonstration of workers.

Pub, men carry mugs of beer to the tables.

Drunken brawl (fragment of the film).

The queue for beer.

Drunken dance (fragment of the film).

City street, with a stream of cars (chronicle of the 19th century.).

Boatmen drag the ship (fragment of the film).

The queue at the liquor store.

A woman sells 2 bottles of wine to a man on the street.

The queue at the liquor store.

CHRONICLE:Demonstration "Against drunkenness of fathers" (chronicle of the 20s).

A girl leads a drunken father home.

Sausages and meat are taken out of the warehouse.

Grapes are dumped out of baskets into a huge barrel.

People in the store buy cheese. (chronicle).

In a restaurant: a group of people at a table clinking glasses (one has a child in his arms).

A naked conscript with an athletic figure approaches the medical commission.

The doctor listens to the conscript.

Grapes press the press.

A wall with ads.

Women with signs on their chests are offering something.

Bulletin board.

PHOTOS: demonstrations with portraits of leaders.

A shuttle woman on the platform near the train.

Policemen are leading a young man by the arms.

The weaver at the loom.

A woman loads huge bags onto a cart.

A small child in the hallway of a communal apartment.

The queue at the liquor store.

A child runs down a long corridor.

A feast in the hostel.

Everyone clinks glasses.

Kitchen in the dorm.

A man plays the guitar and sings "Evening Bell".

The train car.

An empty train car.