Government house

Yuri slezkin tells the story of the Soviet Union through the story of one of the most famous, significant and tragic of his characters. Government house, he is the First House of the Soviets, he is the legendary House on the embankment. There lived the elite of the USSR. Scientists and writers, actors and party leaders, marshals and inventors, all powerful tyrants and their victims, those who were waiting at the entrance for an autograph, and those whose name were afraid to utter even in the kitchen. Poor Damian and Alexander Serafimovich, Svetlana Alliluyeva and Vasily Stalin, Lavrenti Beria and Nikita Khrushchev, Alexei Stakhanov and Artem Mikoyan, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Bagramyan, Yuri Trifonov and Pavel Postyshev, Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Vasily Blyukher. In the 1930-ies and 1940-ies about 800 residents of the house were arrested. During the great terror of some of the apartments changed several owners in a month. "Government house" is a documentary story about how it was born, developed and died this house. And with it the whole country.