Trip to Erzurum (1937)

1829. Tired of being secretly watched by the chief of police Benckendorff, Pushkin leaves imperial St. Petersburg and heads to the Caucasus to join the army. He stops in Tiflis, waiting for permission to enter the war zone. Pushkin gets invited to the house of one of the Georgian princes. The poet is surrounded by honor and attention. Here Pushkin becomes acquainted with the wonderful Georgian songs and poems of Shota Rustaveli.
- Released
- 1937-02-10
- Genres
- History
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Moisei Levin, Mikhail Bleiman, I. Zilbershtein
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- Dmitriy Zhuravlyov as Alexander Pushkin
- Serafim Azanchevskiy as Paskevich
- Konstantin Khokhlov as Nurtsev
- Georgiy Sochevko as Chernishev
- G. Ryzhov as Rayevsky
- Lev Kolesov as Buturlin
- Pavel Andreyev as Garsevan
- Aleksandra Toidze as Maro
- Marya Ladlina
- Vladimir Sladkopevtsev as Mishchenko
- Nikolay Kondratyev as Cossack
- Vyacheslav Volkov as Ivantsov