The film is based on the letters of Anton Chekhov. (Letters Chekhov, deep, interesting, instructive documents of their time. But as they were in tune with our time, our problems and issues.)
The guide leads a tour through the halls of the museum of Anton Chekhov in Moscow.
Artist A. Rudensky playing the role of Anton Chekhov, reads a monologue (synchronously).
Scene from the movie "Master": Teacher (B. Teals) reads Chekhov's story "Vanka Zhukov."
The station building in
Taganrog; street, school building and the class in which he studied Chekhov.
Personnel news: members of the Soviet leadership, Stalin, Molotov, Beria and others speak from the podium.
Hall of paper recycling.
Hall Publishing: Book of Anton Chekhov on the conveyor Vida House actor, Central House of Writers behalf Fadeev, other office buildings in Moscow.
Rural landscapes: forests, fields in winter.
Cranes circling in the sky, sit on the land, flying over the river.
People sit in the hall of the terminal.
Taiga forest; Beach.
Eagles in a zoo cage.
Customers visiting the animals in the zoo.
People pray at the service of the church.
Court hearing: Judge speaks with participants of the trial; read protocol.
Landscapes Sakhalin.
Photos convicts exiled to Sakhalin.
Head Boys Choir conducts a rehearsal with children (synchronously).
Landscape: the river, the trees, the church.
Key words
Amateur Art.
Objects of public leisure and recreation.
Literature.
Educational activities.
Art.
City.
Government and public administration.
Education.
Printing industry.
Nature.
Wildlife.
Christianity.
Maintenance of public order.
Out of school education.
Locations: Moscow [820] Rostov region [798]
Objects:
Tvganrog
Seasons: Winter [823]
Smoking pipes of an industrial enterprise.
Birds over the dump.
Chronicle: the leaders of the Soviet state: Sitalin, Khrushchev, Beria, Molotov, Podgorny, Brezhnev, etc.
Waste paper recycling shop.
Printing house.
Printing of Chekhov's book.
People are standing at newspaper stands.
They read and discuss articles in newspapers.
Signs on the buildings of creative unions.
Union of Theatrical Figures.
The actor's house.
The central house of the writer.
The Board of the Writers' Union.
The central house of the journalist.
The Board of the Union of Artists.
Union of Composers of the USSR.
The Central House of Cinematographers.
Spring landscapes with remnants of snow.
Blue sky with clouds.
Rooks on the field.
Birds in nests.
Birch grove.
Cranes in the sky.
Airport lounge.
Planes on the runway.
Passengers in the waiting room.
A plane taking off.
Shooting from an airplane.
Mongoose.
Birds of prey in the zoo enclosure.
Birds on the pond.
Brown bears.
Interiors of Chekhov's house.
The interior of the Orthodox cathedral.
Divine service.
The faces of the people in the church.
People on the street.
Court session.
The divorce case is being heard (synchronously).
Landscapes of Sakhalin.
Port.
Village.
Photos of convicts.
Fish going to spawn.
A dead fish.
Photos of convicts.
Seagulls over the sea.
The boys' choir in between rehearsals.
Rehearsal (synchronously).
Chronicle: flying helicopter, explosions.
A dark-skinned woman with a child.
Landscapes: river, trees.
A teenager is standing on a rock, looking at the sea.