Casket of Antiquities

A film about the artist-restorer, archaeologist Dmitry Mikhailovich Strukov, who 150 years ago sketched Orthodox monuments of Belarusian culture and created a unique album of these relics. Since the end of the 19th century, it has been kept in the library of Vilnius University. Commentary on the film by S.S. Averentsev. 1 part of Belarus, Polotsk. Panorama of the city. Holy Epiphany Cathedral (XVIII century). Saint Sophia Cathedral (mid-11th century). External and internal views of the Savior-Transfiguration Church of the Savior-Euphrosyne Monastery (mid-XII century). A fresco and an icon depicting Euphrosinia of Polotsk. Fragment of the monastery wall. Drawings from the album of D.M. Strukov: wooden Orthodox churches; cross of Venerable Euphrosyne of Polotsk, Belarus. A dilapidated church. Remains of brickwork in the ground. Church with a bell tower, an old cemetery on the banks of the river. The nun holds a lighted candle in her hand. Burning candle in a floor candlestick. Fragment of a wooden church. Rural houses on the shore of a reservoir. Wooden church on the hill. Album cover by D.M. Strulova "Drawing course for those who do not have a drawing teacher" (1887) Photo of graduates of the Imperial Stroganov School. View of the Decree of October 24, 1864 on the artistic expedition of D. Strukov to Belarus. View of the route of the expedition D.M. Strukov on a geographical map. Moscow region, Zagorsk. Craftsmen at work on icons in the workshop of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Art restorers restore icons. Lithuania, Vilnius. An employee of the Vilnius University library takes D. Strukov's album into the reading room, opens it. Pictures in the album. Part 2 of Belarus. The wooden church of St. George in the town of David-Gorodok (1724); crosses on graves near the church. St. Michael's Church in the village of Rubel (1796). Men on a cart drive by near the church. Slutsk gate in Nesvizh (1690). Interior decoration of the church; the priest opens the royal doors. Ancient church utensils. Cover of an old book, decorated with precious stones and enamels. Damaged icon of Jesus Christ. Memorial service in the church; nuns, children, parishioners are standing with lighted candles. View of the road leading to the wooden church. The church building is reflected in the reservoir. Drawings in Dmitry Strukov's album: the Church of St. George in David-Gorodok; St. Michael's Church in the village. Rubel; icons; church supplies, stone churches. Horses on the shore of a frozen lake. The foundation of the destroyed stone temple. A dilapidated building of a stone church in the scaffolding. Stone monastery wall. The ringer rings the bells. An openwork cast-iron gate overgrown with grass. Dilapidated roof of a dilapidated church. A lopsided cross. A dilapidated wooden church. Partially preserved frescoes, the inscription "DMB" on the wall of the destroyed church. Russia, Moscow. View of the cemetery at the Donskoy Monastery in winter. Monument at the grave of Lyubov Feodorovna Strukova with a broken cross. Director O. Morokova, [philologist S.S. Averintsev] approach the burial place of DM Strukov (the tombstone from his grave, among the other 2 thousand, was taken for the lining of the metro). O. Morokova lays flowers in the snow.

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Scriptwriter L. Peresypkina, editor V. Moroz, sound engineer V. Golovitsky, consultants A. Maldis, I. Dukhan, artist T. Gorchakova, film director I. Tuzis