Sphinx Reflecting on the Meaning of History

Cultural monuments of Ancient Egypt: pyramids, sphinxes, sarcophagus, sculptural images of pharaohs; sculptural portrait from gold of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Hall of Antique Sculpture in the Hermitage. Director of the Hermitage, academician B. B. Piotrovsky in his study, in the halls of the museum. An art album dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812. Picturesque portraits of the heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812. Newsreel: anti-religious demonstrations, destruction of churches; construction of Magnitka, Dneproges. Chronicle: B. B. Piotrovsky at the archaeological excavations of the ancient fortress of the state of Urartu on the Karmir-Blur hill in the Armenian SSR. Items found during excavations. Meeting of archaeologists at the site of the former excavations. Reflections of BB Piotrovsky about the historical process as a continuous process of cultural development. Poems by V. Mayakovsky, V. Aleksandrovsky, I. Bunin, K. Balmont, S. Nadson are heard.

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1987