The film tells about the history and various aspects of the life of Kazan.
Fragment of the x / film "Ivan the Terrible", a picture depicting the Kazan Kremlin and the assault of Kazan by Russian troops in 1552.
Views of the Kazan Kremlin from the Volga River.
People pray in the mosque.
View of one of the old streets of Kazan.
Portrait of Gavriil Derzhavin.
Drawings and paintings depicting Kazan of the 18th and 19th centuries, a fragment of the building of the Kazan hotel, a view of an Orthodox church.
Portrait of Catherine II.
View Of the Kazan Kremlin, the top of the minaret.
The blacksmith at work.
Newsreel of the early 20th century: ships on the Volga near Kazan.
people turn the water wheel by hand.
Portrait of A. N. Radishchev.
Monument to Pushkin in Kazan, view of one of the streets.
Drawings of Kazan of the 19th century, the faces of the elderly.
Trade in books on the market.
Views of old buildings in the historical part of the city.
People's faces on the streets.
View of the railway station building.
Newsreel of the beginning of the 20th century: a panorama of a part of the market in Kazan.
Photo of one of the Kazan families of the early 20th century.
Views of the mosque building with a minaret, interspersed with newsreels of the general Muslim prayer in Kazan at the beginning of the 20th century.
Fragments of historical buildings of the city.
Portrait of Catherine II.
Butchering a lamb carcass in the market, extracting the entrails.
People say a prayer before eating.
Prayer in the mosque.
Views of the streets of Kazan, sellers in the market, alternates with paintings of the 19th century.
Portrait of A. Herzen.
Interior view of the old tower, spiral staircase.
The remains of the capital of the Volga Bulgarians, a watchtower on a hill.
Plan of Kazan in 1834.
Portrait of Leo Tolstoy.
The view of the Kazan University building, the faces of students and children, alternates with drawings of the 19th century.
Colonnade of the Kazan University building.
Portraits of students of Kazan University.
Drawing of the wall of the Kazan Kremlin of the 19th century.
Books on the shelves of the archive.
Calendar: 1910s
Locations: The Republic of Tatarstan [752]
Seasons: Summer [824]
Buildings of Kazan mosques.
Newsreel of the early 20th century: view of the pier on the Volga.
Movers carry loads on their shoulders.
Monument to the Russian soldiers who fell during the capture of Kazan.
Views of Orthodox churches and streets of Kazan, interspersed with photos of the same places in the early 20th century.
Portrait of Taras Shevchenko.
The artist paints a picture in the studio, talks about the history of Kazan and the Tatar people, about his work (synchronously).
Newsreel of the beginning of the 20th century: inspection of horses by officials at the entrance to Kazan.
Portrait of P. Kropotkin.
Views of the historical buildings of Kazan, a sheet of the newspaper "Gubernskie Vedomosti", a sign of the printing house with the old spelling, Orthodox and Muslim churches of the city, alternates with short fragments of newsreels.
Types of buildings of the Kazan Kremlin, fragments of newsreels.
Parishioners during a service in one of the churches of the convent in Kazan.
Photo portrait of the artist I. Shishkin.
Women collect water at the spring in the mosque.
Class in the madrasah.
Women walk across the courtyard.
Students of the madrasah leave after the end of classes.
Portrait of the theologian and educator Sh.
Marjani.
The text of the petition of A. Arbuzov.
Portrait of Academician A. Arbuzov.
Photos of Arbuzov during his studies at Kazan University.
Panorama of the university building.
Monument to the poet G. Tukay, panorama of the adjacent quarter.
Views of the streets of Kazan, photos of the beginning of the 20th century.
Photo by G. Tukai.
The faces of elderly Muslim women.
The poet speaks to women during a literary evening.
Photo of Tukayu in his youth.
Newsreel of the 1920s: a mullah on the balcony of the minaret.
Types of streets of Kazan.
Bills with knuckles, photos of the streets of Kazan on the wall.
Collage of photo portraits of employees of Kazan enterprises in the early 20th century.
Photos of Kazan merchants and industrialists.
Types of buildings of old industrial enterprises of Kazan, newsreel of the exit of workers from the factory.
monument to V. I. Ulyanov-Lenin in Kazan in front of the university, students sit on a bench near the monument.
Photos of residents of Kazan in the early 20th century.
Monument to F. I. Chaliapin, people walk down the street.
Newsreel of 1918: the entry of the Red Army units into Kazan.
Traces of fighting on the buildings of the city.
Trotsky L. D. and his entourage pass to the pier.
Trotsky from the deck of a floating steamer responds to greetings.
Portrait of Krupskaya.
Red Army parade in Kazan in 1919.
The broken dome of the Orthodox church.
Adults and children on the pavement eat the soup given to them.
Trade in the Kazan market.
Views of Kazan in 1928.
Portrait of Krupskaya.
Calendar: 1918 1919 1928
Locations: The Republic of Tatarstan [752]
Seasons: Autumn [826] Summer [824]
Newsreel of the 1920s: view of the Kazan Kremlin.
The faces of the participants of the rally.
Pervomaisk demonstration in Kazan, behind the scenes of an interview with A.M. Gorky.
Meeting of A.M. Gorky at the railway station in Moscow in 1932.
Demonstration in Kazan, participants of the demonstration lead elephants.
Views of Kazan in 1941.
The loudspeaker horns on the pole, the announcement of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War sounds, people listen to the message.
There is a rifle platoon, photos of Musa Jalil, there are Red Army units.
Monument to Musa Jalil.
The bride and groom in their wedding dresses are walking down the street.
View of one of the streets, people on the streets, a man playing the accordion.
Meeting of Hare Krishnas in Kazan, performing prayers.
The main Hare Krishna speaks about Kazan, its history, ancient monuments (synchronously).
Young people pass by.
A Lutheran priest lights candles, and his interview about Kazan is played behind the scenes in German.
The pastor gives an interview in German (synchronously), a view of the Kazan church.
Service in the Kazan synagogue.
The rabbi gives an interview in Hebrew (synchronously).
A man looks at books on a street stall.
View of the Orthodox church.
Service in the Orthodox church.
An Orthodox priest speaks about the 1000th anniversary of Kazan, about the peaceful coexistence of all religious denominations in the city (synchronously).
People on the streets of Kazan.
The imam of Kazan gives an interview in the Tatar language (synchronously), the faces of the Muslims praying in the mosque.
View of the main mosque of Kazan, the Kazan Kremlin and the surrounding neighborhoods (from above).
Personnel:
Gorjkij (Peshkov) Aleksej Maksimovich -- writer, playwright
Calendar: 1920s 1932 1941
Locations: The Republic of Tatarstan [752]
Seasons: Summer [824]