evening ring:
The cinema of today.
On November 14, 1914, the burial vault of Russian soldiers who died during the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-1878 was blown up in Istanbul. It was established by a decision of Russia to commemorate the victorious peace treaty in San Stefano. and lay to eternal rest in a mass grave the remains of 5,000 Russian soldiers and officers scattered on the battlefields.
The solemn consecration of the temple took place in 1894 in the presence of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich and the highest dignitaries of the Turkish government. In a nightmare, the victorious country could not dream that twenty years later the Turks would subtly violate the memory of the fallen.
The reason was officially found: the entry of the Ottoman Empire into the First World War on the side of Germany. And the nationalists cultivated the idea from the moment the first stone was laid in the foundation of the temple: how can a symbol of shame and humiliation of the nation be tolerated in the heart of the great Ottoman Empire?!
The "humiliated" staged the destruction of the temple as a circus show, and ordered the photographer Fuat Ozinki (pictured) to photograph it. In front of a jubilant crowd of thousands, the monument was blown up, and Turkish flags were hoisted over the ruins to the sound of drums. The documentary "The Destruction of the Russian Monument in San Stefano" became the first in the history of Turkish cinema.
And since November 14th has been celebrated in Turkey as Cinema Day, in December 2012 Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and Russian President Putin signed an agreement according to which the Turkish side undertook to rebuild a Russian tomb shrine in Istanbul. Fourteen years have passed. The series of Erdogan's secret peace abode continues.
For comparison: in the century before that, the Russians built a temple in their country in only four years.
But we didn't make a movie.