Русские евреи

Русские евреи

In the first film of the trilogy, the guide accompanies the viewer from Kyiv, "the mother of Russian cities", where there was already a Jewish quarter in the 11th century, to the capital city of Petrograd in 1917. Under Catherine II, Russia became the country with the largest Jewish population, and since the 19th century, foreigners who are "strangers to everyone and consider everyone to be strangers" have been overcoming self-isolation. The film tells about the traditional Jewish way of life and how future famous financiers and industrialists, scientists, artists, and revolutionaries broke away from it. About how the Russian word pogrom entered foreign languages, about the "Bailis affair", about the first wave of emigration. The history of the country was written in October 1917 about the SRs and Bolsheviks, about shaking the tsarist regime, about Lenin's closest associates. The next two films of the trilogy will tell about the further fate and self-identification of "Russian Jews" in Russia and beyond.