I Leave the World to You

The film tells about the life of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova, the founder of the Martha and Mary Convent. The film includes the following filming: Part 1: General view of the Temple of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem. View of the territory of the Gethsemane monastery. Types of St. Petersburg: "The Bronze Horseman", Peter and Paul Fortress, the Neva embankment, Palace Square, the building of the Winter Palace, Interiors of the house church and premises in the Winter Palace. View of the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace on Nevsky Prospect. The interiors of the premises in the palace. Pre-revolutionary newsreel footage: Train movement (winter filming). Panorama of the palace in Darmstadt. Part 2. A harness of horses rides along the road through the forest. View of the surroundings of the Ilyinskoye estate, the church, the manor house. Types of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, temples on the territory of the Lavra; among them the Trinity Church, the Assumption Cathedral, etc. View of the Grand Kremlin Palace in the Kremlin, internal view of the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin: paintings, icons. Pre-revolutionary newsreel footage: Solemn exit from the Red Porch in the Kremlin of members of the imperial family and their entourage in 1901-1902 .; among those present: Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Grand Duchess Elizaeta Feodorovna and others. Part 3. Interiors of the premises of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Landscape of Israel: views of Mount Tabor (removed from motion). Panorama of Jerusalem. General view of the temple of Mary Magdalene. The nuns of the Gethsemane monastery leave the temple and walk through the territory of the monastery. Interior view of the Temple of the Ascension. The interior of the temple. View of the gate of the Martha-Mariinsky monastery in Moscow. Part 4. General view of the temple on the territory of the Martha-Mariinsky monastery. View of the frescoes in the temple of the iconostasis. Views of the building of the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo. View of the territory of the skete in the Optinskaya Hermitage. 5 part. Footage from newsreels of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov in 1913: Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Fedorovna with daughters and heir - Tsarevich Alexei climb the steps to the Iverskaya chapel ; solemn passage of members of the Romanov imperial family; among those present: Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Anastasia and other members of the Romanov family. Newsreels from the period of the 1st World War: a group of men in white coats at a map of Europe, wounded in a hospital ward, one of the wounded shows a bandaged hand to a sister of mercy. Views of the temple in the Martha-Mariinsky monastery. View of the territory of the monastery. Landscape of the environs of Alapaevsk: fields, country road. Panorama of the temple of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem. View of the tomb of Elizabeth Feodorovna and the tomb of her assistant Varvara Yakovleva in the temple, the remains of which were delivered from Alapaevsk and transported to Jerusalem. Patriarch of All Russia Alexy II performs a solemn divine service in the church; among those present are Metropolitans Vladimir, Filaret and other representatives of the Orthodox clergy. General view of the chapel at the site of the death of Elizaveta Fedorovna and other members of the Romanov imperial family in Alapaevsk. The film uses photographs of Elizaveta Fedorovna, her family members, photographs of members of the Romanov imperial family, photographs of old Moscow.

Color

5

1992