Tea box

Prishvin used these boxes to store film cut into frames and placed in paper envelopes. One of the boxes has a note pasted on with the inscription: “When they struck the bells…” It contains photographs of the first month of 1930: the destruction of the bells of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius.

16 January 1930. So much effort was expended over twelve years in the struggle to protect historical monuments, and suddenly it all flew away: throughout the country people are destroying precious cultural items, monuments, and living personalities.