nikolaev played viktor sukhorukov, also in the film ivan dobronravov ekaterina ageeva and varvara shmykova sukhorukov course, just great. in this role, the shooting took place in a small village near kazan. the characters of the film are kryashens, a small people of orthodox tatars, 100 years ago there were more than 100,000 of them. now the number of kryashnas has decreased by four times . on the example of one private story of the author of the film , they talk about the problem of the disappearance of small peoples during the period of globalization, but we need to figure it out a little. that's what, uh, tatar, ilshat viktor sukhorukov tatar tatar, you ivan is not a tatar which one of you was baptized none none, and why then are you engaged in this topic, because, well, painted this is a small people. this is the small people. they are active because of this actually. well uh keeps his language in his culture. they have their own society there. they are very active, they have their own holidays, and the most interesting thing is that, of course, the villages preserve their culture in the purest f