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Moscow Passenger Lewis Carroll

In 1867, the writer, mathematician and theologian Lewis Carroll visited Russia. He visited St. Petersburg and Moscow, and from Moscow went to Nizhny Novgorod on the newly laid railway. In Nizhny Novgorod, the English guest visited a fair and a theater, a church and a mosque, admired the river panorama from the Kremlin towers. Carroll described his two-day stay in the Volga capital on August 6 and 7, 1867 in his diary, which became the basis for the script of the film.

Moscow Passenger Lewis Carroll

NR 2022
Ivanovy Vary

The pamphlet film parodies the biography of an obsessed scientist - here Tsar John the Terrible acts as the first nuclear scientist in the fatherland. Having received from his grandmother Sophia Palaiologos the mysterious "Greek fire" and a library full of alchemical texts, the tsar eventually established the production of heavy water in his Dubna patrimony near Moscow. Evaporating heavy water in huge stills, Grozny nullified the surrounding forests, but extracted a hundred quarters of this rare and valuable substance. The Tsar's reserves were accidentally discovered only in the middle of the twentieth century and, according to eyewitnesses, were very useful for the needs of the Soviet atomic project.

Ivanovy Vary

NR 2022