interview with the director, GOROD.
1.2. About the Hermitage Museum
Museum's official name is Federal Cultural Institution "The State Hermitage". Legal address is Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 34 190000 St Petersburg, Russia. The number of visitors in 2011 is total 2,879,686. The collection of the State Hermitage includes more than three million works of art and artefacts of the world culture.
winter morning. The boys
are being awakened by a monk, loudly ringing a bell.
Candles are lit.
Napoleon, age 9, sun-tanned, leaps out of bed, rubbing his
arms and shivering. He tries to pour a pitcher of water,
discovering that it has frozen solid.
NAPOLEON
Who has been putting glass in my
pitcher? Look here, someone has
filled my pitcher with glass!
DUFOUR
Oh, my goodness! Someone has filled
Bon
winter.
Not at all. Im very busy.
Mama said that you live
like a barbarian out there
and wear peasant clothes.
Theres a lot more to it
than you think.
Its very scientific.
Are you here for long?
I dont know.
That depends on you.
Mamas waiting for me.
-May I call on you?
-Were at home on Thursday as usual.
Today, then.
Au revoir!
You said you wanted my advice
on a delicate matter?
Yes, Stiva.
I th
winter. We see the palace at night, blanketed in a
beautiful, almost glowing, snow as horse drawn carriages
pull up to the front door.
TATIANA (CONT)
A beautiful, magical time. . .
MOVE INTO THE PALACE
TATIANA (CONT)
That would soon be gone
forever. . .
INT. PALACE AT ST. PETERSBERG - NIGHT
Elegant ROYALISTS mingle around the MAIN HALL as an
ORCHESTRA plays.
All eyes turn to the GLASS DOORS OF
winter
estate, he owned a valuable piece ofland.
True, it was a small piece. But he carried
it with him whereverhe went.
Dimitri Pietrovich!
I would like to buy your land.
This land is not for sale.
Some day, I hope to build on it.
He was an idiot. But I loved him.
Then there was mother, who made
the most delicious blintzes in the world.
Of course, there was Old Gregor,
and his son, Young Gregor.