Director Fridrikh Ermler brings together monarchist Vasiliy Shulgin with a nameless historian who accompanies the right wing politician on a stroll through Leningrad, confronting him with his past.
Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
St. Petersburg, 1914. Pre-revolutionary bourgeois society, decadent intelligentsia - the signs of this troubled time. The focus is on the Bulavina sisters Dasha and Kata, their personal lives, loves, hobbies, and heartfelt dramas.
