Seeing Off or Green Stick

The film was edited from newsreel footage of the lifetime filming of the writer L.N. Tolstoy and the filming of his funeral. First part. Kryokshino, 1909 L.N. Tolstoy on a morning walk during his stay at the estate of V.G. Chertkov. S.A. Tolstaya and A.L. Tolstaya go in a road carriage. Leo Tolstoy reads a book to children. LN Tolstoy, SA Tolstaya with a bouquet of flowers go to the railway station "Kryokshino". Leo Tolstoy on horseback in the vicinity of the estate. S.A. Tolstaya, A.L. Tolstaya, photographer Tapsel at the station square. L.N. Tolstoy, S.A. Tolstaya, Sonya Tolstaya, V.G. Chertkov, A.B. Goldenveiser on the platform. Porters carry suitcases, boxes. A train is coming. Leo Tolstoy, S.A. Tolstaya, V.G. Chertkov, heading for the train. Leo Tolstoy climbs into the train carriage. Yasnaya Polyana, 1910 Leo Tolstoy near the house and in the park alleys in winter. A. Drankov is filming Leo Tolstoy leaving the house. Yasnaya Polyana, 1910. Peasants go to dig Leo Tolstoy's grave. The peasants cross themselves and start digging a grave. Astapovo, November 1910. The building of the railway station Astapovo. Leo Tolstoy's sons near the house of the station chief I. I. Ozolin. The head of the station, I. I. Ozolin, stands on the porch of the house. The carriages are on the railroad tracks. Doctor G.M. Bergenheim and Leo Tolstoy's son Mikhail Lvovich leave the carriage in which Leo Tolstoy's family lives. SA Tolstaya, accompanied by VN Filosofov, leave the carriage, approach the porch of the house of II Ozolin. T.L. Tolstaya and S.A. Tolstaya talking on the porch. S.A. Tolstaya V.N. Filosofov move away from the house of I.I.Ozolin. ... Shchekino, 1909 Leo Tolstoy, SA Tolstaya with a bouquet of flowers are walking along the railway platform. Yasnaya Polyana, 1908 S.A. Tolstaya passes by the flower garden, picking flowers. A.L. Tolstaya and S.A. Tolstaya go to the house, the dog pulls by the edge of A.L. Tolstoy's skirt. Yasnaya Polyana, 1909. From the exit gates of Leo Tolstoy's estate in Yasnaya Polyana, road carriages with Leo Tolstoy, SA Tolstoy and AL Tolstoy leave. Shchekino, 1909 Road carriages stop at the station square. L.N. Tolstoy, S.A. Tolstaya, A.L. Tolstaya pass along the station square. S.A. Tolstaya, L.N. Tolstoy, A.L. Tolstaya, A.B. Goldenveiser cross the railroad tracks, approach the train, talk with a woman near the carriage. Moscow, 1909. Leo Tolstoy's last visit to Moscow. A man takes a suitcase out of a train carriage. The crowd meeting Leo Tolstoy on the platform. L.N. Tolstoy, S.A. Tolstaya and A.L. Tolstaya leave the building of the Bryansk railway station. Leo Tolstoy, S.A. Tolstaya, A.L. Tolstaya and V.G. Chertkov in a wheelchair enter the gate of the Tolstoy's house in Khamovniki. A stroller around the house. S.A. Tolstaya, L.N. Tolstoy leave the house, say goodbye to the mourners, sit in the carriage. S.A. Tolstaya, L.N. Tolstoy in a road carriage leave the gates of the estate in Khamovniki. At the gate there are people seeing off. Seeing Leo Tolstoy at the Kursk station. A crowd of people in the square near the station. The train is approaching the platform. Those seeing off run along the railroad tracks. Kochety, 1910 Leo Tolstoy, T.L. Tolstaya on the porch of a house in the Sukhotin-Tolstoy estate. The second part of. Moscow, 1909. People seeing off Leo Tolstoy run along the platform, across the railway tracks to the train, run up to the train on which Leo Tolstoy is leaving. The men, having climbed the pillar, wave their hands. Yasnaya Polyana, 1910. Peasants are digging Leo Tolstoy's grave. Astapovo, 1910 The body of the late Leo Tolstoy in the room of II Ozolin. The lid of the coffin is taken out of the house of II Ozolin. Then the sons of Leo Tolstoy carry out the coffin with the body of Leo Tolstoy. Behind the coffin are SA Tolstaya, VN Filosofov and others. Leo Tolstoy's sons bring the coffin with the body of the deceased into a special carriage. The lid of the coffin is carried into the train carriage. SA Tolstaya, the sons of Leo Tolstoy and others leave the carriage of the funeral train. Yasnaya Polyana, 1910. A crowd of people at the entrance gate to Leo Tolstoy's estate. Local peasants are holding a banner with the inscription: “Lev Nikolaevich! the memory of your good will not die among us, the orphaned peasants Yasn.Pol. " Cochety, 1910 Leo Tolstoy in a coat walks along the path at the edge of the forest. Yasnaya Polyana, 1910. The funeral procession moves along the road from Zaseka station to Yasnaya Polyana. People on the territory of the estate near the house. The peasants are standing near the dug grave, taking off their hats. The coffin with the body of Leo Tolstoy is carried through the entrance gate. People carry in their hands a coffin with the body of the deceased on the territory of the estate, bring it to the house. Wreaths on the cart. The sons are carrying the coffin with the body of Leo Tolstoy. The coffin is lowered into the grave, those present kneel down. View of a grave covered in snow.

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