The film is dedicated to the historical works of A.S. Pushkin. FIRST PART Russia. Winter landscape. The building of one of the Orthodox monasteries. View of a destroyed brick wall. The city of Pushkin. Great Catherine Palace. Home church. The city of Leningrad. State Hermitage. Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. Picturesque portraits of Russian generals of the war of 1812, among them: portraits of M.I. Kutuzov, P.I. Bagration. A picturesque portrait of Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov. MLTP. Drawings depicting one of the cities of the Moscow state of the 16th century, chronicler. SECOND PART The Great Tsar's Book or The Root of Russian Tsars (Tsar's Titular, 1672). Miniatures depicting the Grand Duke of Kiev Vladimir Vsevolodovich Monomakh, the Grand Duke of Kiev and Vladimir Alexander I Yaroslavich (Alexander Nevsky), the Grand Duke of Moscow Demetrius Ioannovich Donskoy (Dmitry Donskoy), the Grand Duke of Moscow, the Russian Tsar John IV Vasilyevich (Ivan the Terrible and), Tsarevich Grand Duke Dimitri Ioannovich (son of Ivan the Terrible), Russian Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov. Russia. The building of one of the churches. Painted walls, arched passages to the premises of the temple. Church bells on pedestals. MLTP. Drawings depicting the chronicler, the gallows. The city of Leningrad. Admiralty building. Memorial Museum-Apartment of A.S. Pushkin on the embankment of the Moika River. A.S.'s office Pushkin. Shelves with books. Ink set, notes, books by A.S. Pushkin on the table. Picturesque and illustrated portraits of Peter I in childhood and adolescence. Bronze bust of Peter I. Engraving depicting Peter I. Drawings depicting a Russian squadron at sea. Collections of soldiers of the Russian army (amusing company). Coin depicting the symbolism of tsarist Russia - two-headed eagle illustration. Portrait of the Don Cossack, the leader of the Peasant War of 1773-1775 in Russia, Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachev. Picturesque portraits of Catherine II. PART THREE Painted portrait of Catherine II. An engraving depicting the Yaik Cossacks from the army of E.I. Pugacheva. Miniature depicting E.I. Pugachev in the form of Emperor Peter III. A picturesque portrait of E.I. Pugachev. Russia. Winter landscape. Wooden houses. A stack of hay. Summer landscape. Steppe. Fields. Hill. Lake. View of a part of one of the monasteries (background). The city of Pushkin. Great Catherine Palace. Great hall of the palace. Fountain "Milkmaid". Sculptural busts of Peter I, Catherine II, Alexander I. City of Leningrad. Memorial Museum-Apartment of A.S. Pushkin on the embankment of the Moika River. A.S.'s office Pushkin. Geographic maps, books, ink set, A.S. Pushkin.