Russian necropolis. (1993)

The film tells about the graves in cemeteries Novodevichy, Donskoy and Danilov monasteries on Vagankovsky Mitinskoe and cemeteries in Moscow.

The film traces the stylistic peculiarities and traditions of Russian tombstones.

In the picture filming the following: types of monasteries and the adjoining areas including cemeteries, burial in the monastery with different tombstones, marble and bronze statues, crosses, chapels, monuments, tombs and monuments at Vagankov Mitinskoe and cemeteries.

Among them are the graves of the Soviet era politicians, scientists and cultural burial Chernobyl, etc.

The film includes newsreels in 1919, which commemorated the opening of the relics of St.

Sergius of Radonezh at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin.

Tombs in the Archangel Cathedral.

View of the Novodevichy Monastery from the pond.

The courtyard of the Novodevichy Monastery.

The chapel is the tomb of the Prokhorovs.

A bust of Denis Davydov on his grave.

The grave of the historian S.M. Solovyov.

The grave of the writer A.F.Pisemsky.

The grave of the poet A.N.Pleshcheyev.

Artists write sketches in the Novodevichy Monastery.

Restorers at work.

The territory of the Danilov Monastery.

A row of tombs against the wall.

Memorial chapel.

Gogol's grave at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Grave of A.P.Chekhov.

Grave of L. Sobinov.

Grave of N.S. Alliluyeva.

Grave of V. Gilyarovsky.

Mayakovsky's grave.

Grave of D. Shostakovich.

Grave of A.N.Bakulev.

Grave of V.M.Shukshin.

The grave of N.S. Khrushchev.

The grave of V.S. Vysotsky at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

Grave of S.A.Yesenin.

The janitor sweeps the alley of the cemetery.

Grave of V.I. Surikov.

The graves of the defenders of Moscow, who died in 1941.

I. Talkov's grave.

Memorial to the Chernobyl victims at the Mitinsky cemetery.