Great Friendship Pages

A film about the last meetings of V. I. Lenin and M. Gorky, dating back to the period 1917-1921. The film uses materials from the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The film is based on illustrative material. Photos of M. Gorky and V. I. Lenin of different years. Manuscripts, publications of articles, works by M. Gorky and V. I. Lenin. Books by M. Gorky. Fragments of the correspondence between Lenin and Gorky. Leaflets of the RSDLP (b) with quotes from the works of Gorky. Iskra newspaper. The city of Leningrad. Peter-Pavel's Fortress. The cell in which M. Gorky was imprisoned in 1905. The house where M. Gorky lived in 1905. Italy. Capri island. The house where M. Gorky lived in 1906-1913. The house-museum of V. I. Lenin in Shushenskoye (winter photography). House-Museum of V.I.Lenin in Gorki. Museum-apartment of Lenin in the Kremlin. Chronicle. The city of Petrograd. 1917 The movement of a car with armed soldiers and sailors along the city street. Moscow city. 1921 The funeral of V. I. Lenin. 1920s. Eradication of illiteracy: teaching reading and writing to people of mature and old age. M. Gorky speaks at the collective farm "Gigant", attends the construction of the Dneproges, speaks at the I All-Union Congress of Writers. Fragments of feature films about the October Revolution of 1917

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music by A. Sevastyanov, announcer N. Cherkasov, animation by V. Valov, E. Osina