German Lopatin - Russian Friend of Marx

The film tells about German Aleksandrovich Lopatin (1845-1918), a Russian politician, revolutionary, member of the General Council of the First International, the first translator of Karl Marx's "Capital" into Russian. Documents from the Stavropol and Irkutsk state archives are used in the film. 1 part. Summer, Moscow, a monument to Karl Marx on Sverdlov Square (modern Teatralnaya Square). The movement of vehicles along Marx Avenue. Spring, Leningrad, ice drift on the Neva, Peter and Paul Fortress (view through the bridge fence), a seagull is flying. Casemates of the Peter and Paul Fortress, the chambers of the Alekseevsky Ravelin. Fragments of the sculptural group "Horse Tamers" on the Anichkov Bridge. G. Shlisselburg, view of the fortress Oreshek ("the sovereign's prison"), in which G. Lopatin spent 18 years. Lake Ladoga, a cliff, seagulls above the water, a view of the fortress from the side of the lake. Graphic portrait of G. Lopatin. Photos by G. Lopatin, Karl Marx (different ages). Photo by Jenny Marks. Photos of Stavropol at the beginning of the twentieth century. G. Stavropol, old mansions on one of the central streets. Photos of London at the beginning of the 20th century. Photo of the British Library Reading Room. The title page of K. Marx's "Capital" (translated by G. Lopatin). Documents of the office of the St. Petersburg Chief of Police. Table of attendance at meetings of the General Council of the I International, created by Karl Marx, cr.pl. - "Lapatin". Part 2. Photos by G. Lopatin. Portrait of the revolutionary-democrat writer N.G. Chernyshevsky. Photos of Irkutsk early. XX century. Types of r. Hangars (filmed from a high hill on the shore). Types of winter forest. Cover "The case of the main administration of Eastern Siberia about the nobleman Lopatin, who attempted to free the state criminal Chernyshevsky on March 15, 1871)". Photos of the prison in Irkutsk, where G. Lopatin was sitting. Photo of NF Danielson - the translator of Capital into Russian and the author of the first completed translation of three volumes. Streets in the center of Irkutsk, old wooden houses, wooden pavements. Cr.pl. - carved platbands on the windows of houses, icicles. Ice drift on the river. Rowboats on the banks of the Angara, forest along the banks. Angara (filmed from a passing boat), a herd of cows on the shore. Lake Ladoga, rocky shores, Shlisselburg fortress. Single camera. Title pages of Karl Marx's "Capital" in different languages. E.B.Lopatina (G.Lopatin's granddaughter) in his apartment at the table is sorting through photographs of the family. The things that belonged to G. Lopatin - a silver watch and a briefcase taken from besieged Leningrad during the war. View of the Peter and Paul Fortress from the side of the Winter Palace. NDP on the walls of the fortress. Moscow, Red Square, line to the Lenin Mausoleum. Monument to Karl Marx on Sverdlov Square. Transport movement along Marx Avenue. View of Gorky Street. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Museum in the house number 5 on Marx-Engels Street. The interiors of the museum. B / w c / t: early. XX century, b / m shooting, a man sows seeds in the ground, followed by a boy leading a horse with a plow by the bridle; peasant huts with thatched roofs.

B&W

2

1970