Praying for the Cup

Rural landscapes of the Novgorod region; forest, river, garden. City of Novgorod; Church of the Annunciation on the Gorodishche. Parishioners enter the temple. Church choir rehearsal. View of the frescoes on the walls of the temple. The guide leads an excursion in the temple, explains the content of the "prayer for the cup" fresco. The work of restorers in the restoration workshop. View of the monument "Millennium of Russia" in Novgorod. The search group is searching, excavating wartime burials. Type of excavated human remains, soldier's helmets. The solemn ceremony of the reburial of the remains of Soviet soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War. Obelisk at the mass grave with the names of the victims. Improvement of the territory around the Nikolo-Lezhitsky monastery, handed over to believers, and in which a female monastery will be opened. Believers kiss the icon delivered to the monastery. The story in the film is conducted on behalf of a member of the search group A. I. Orlov.

Color

3

1989