In Days of Doubt

FIRST PART. Moscow. Meeting of the participants of the VII Congress of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature at the Belorussky Railway Station. Congress participants get on the bus. Takeoffs and landings of passenger aircraft of international flights at the airport. A rally on Pushkinskaya Square near the monument to A.S. Pushkin. Picketers with homemade posters outside the Rossiya Hotel. The inscriptions on the posters: "Russia has no rights - wake up!", "Down with the passport regime!", "We want to be not Marxist-Leninists, but free people" and others. A bust of a primitive man, birch bark letters in the exposition of the Archaeological Museum of Moscow State University. Leading film journalist A. Revenko in the museum hall reads the text of one of the birch bark letters (sinhr.) Oryol region. Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve of IS Turgenev "Spasskoye-Lutovinovo". Park, house of the estate of I.S. Turgenev's mother. Interiors of rooms in the house. A picturesque portrait of I.S. Turgenev, photographs, documents introducing the history of the estate. A museum employee conducts an excursion (sinhr.). A woman in a hut sings a Russian folk song (sinhr.). Crimea. Stone women in the steppe. THE SECOND PART OF. Moscow. The Presidium and participants of the VII Congress in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace at a meeting. The Kolmyk poet D.N. Kugultinov (sync.) And Academician D.S. Likhachev (sync.) Are performing. A cameraman is filming in the meeting room. Participants of the congress on the Cathedral Square of the Kremlin. The teacher of the Russian language in the classroom conducts a survey of foreign students (sinhr.). Kiev City. Monument to Prince Vladimir. The ensemble of the Vydubetsky monastery. Building, interior of one of the cathedrals. Burning candles near the icons. Pskov region, settlement Pushkinskie Gory. The grave of A.S. Pushkin on the territory of the Svyatogorsk monastery. THE THIRD PART. Pskov region, settlement Pushkinskie Gory. Museum-reserve of A.S. Pushkin. Manors in Mikhailovsky and Petrovsky. A.S. Pushkin's study in the House-Museum. An old cannon in Petrovsky. Types of the territory of the reserve. Kabardino-Balkaria. A congress participant, a teacher of the Russian language, professor [M. Shekhikatcheva] conducts classes in the Russian language with schoolchildren and university students (sinhr.). Street view in one of the villages. A local resident on a horse-drawn carriage. India, Delhi. Monument to A.S. Pushkin. Lakshmi Narayan Temple. The movement of transport on one of the streets of the city. Local residents in bicycle strollers and in a mini motobus. Street performance of a snake trainer. Participants in the demonstration of supporters of the Communist Party of India with banners and banners are on the streets of the city. Workers at a construction site. Women carry baskets of gravel. FOURTH PART. Moscow. The movement of transport on one of the streets of the city. Professor K.R. Guseva at home talks about the history of the Slavic languages and their relationship with Indian languages (sinhr.) During a conversation with the journalist A. Revenko. Participants of the VII Congress are discussing one of the methods of teaching the Russian language during the Round Table (sinhr.), Which took place during the days of the Congress. India, Delhi. Teacher and students in the classroom at a Russian language lesson (sinhr.) At the Center for Russian Studies at the Nehru University of Delhi. Trade pavilions on the city street. The owners of the stalls address tourists from Russia in Russian (sinhr.). Journalist A. Revenko talks to one of the sellers in Russian (sinhr.). Signboards on the stalls with the words: "Welcome". FIFTH PART. Tula region, Yasnaya Polyana. State memorial and natural reserve "Museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy" Yasnaya Polyana. Groups of tourists in the park, near the house and at the grave of Leo Tolstoy. Personal belongings of the writer in the museum. Great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy - professor Moscow State University IV Tolstoy gives an interview in which he talks about the contamination of the modern Russian language (sinhr.). Posters of feature films "Rubbish", "Bastard", "Bitch children" and others. Young people in the park smoke, talk. magazine "Russian speech." A sign with the inscription: "Publishing house" Science ". Editorial office of the journal "Russian speech". Employees of the magazine in the office talk with the journalist A. Revenko about the publication in the magazine "Russian Dictionary of Language Expansion" by A. I. Sozhenitsyn (sinhr., The same in the sixth part). Kiev City. View of one of the city districts. Andrew's Descent. The building of house number 13, in which the writer MABulgakov lived. A memorial plaque with the inscription: "The famous Russian Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov lived in this house." Renovation work in the rooms of the writer's house. SIXTH PART. Ryazan region the village of Konstantinovo. View of the Oka river from the bank in winter. Rural residential buildings. Church. The building of the Memorial House-Museum of S.A. Yesenin. The interior of one of the rooms of the museum. Household items, photographs of the poet's relatives in the museum exposition. An employee of the museum tells about one of the exhibits of the museum - the icon of Sergius of Radonezh, which was presented to S.A. Yesenin by members of the royal family (sinhr.).

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1991