The film is focused on life and creative activities of Vissarion Belinsky, a Russian author and literary critic. Episodes of his work in the “Notes of Fatherland” magazine, meetings with progressive-minded Russian writers Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Nekrasov, his presence at the premiere of “Inspector General” at Maly Theatre and his trip to Novgorod to the exiled writer Alexander Gertsen demonstrate the strong personality of the lead character of the film, an outstanding
figure in Russian culture.
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