''The Palace and the Fortress'' (russian: Дворец и крепость, Dvorets i krepost) is a 1924 Soviet silent biopic directed by

Aleksandr Ivanovsky Aleksandr Viktorovich Ivanovsky (; November 29, 1881 – January 12, 1968) was a screenwriter and film director in Soviet Union. He was awarded the USSR State Prize, Stalin Prize in 1941, for his work on the 1940 film ''Musical Story''. His 1944 o ...

.Christie & Taylor p.431 The film is about the tragic fate of revolutionary democrat Mikhail Beideman who was held prisoner at the Peter and Paul Fortress and spent over twenty years in the west Alexei- ravelin.

Cast

* Yevgeni Boronikhin * Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky * Marina Yuryeva * Kondrat Yakovlev * Sergei Shishko * Gennadiy Michurin as Dmitriy Karakozov * Pyotr Andriyevsky * Yakov Malyutin * N. Komarovskaya * Petr Kuznetsov

References

Bibliography

* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. ''The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939''. Routledge, 2012.

External links

* 1924 films Soviet silent feature films Soviet biographical films Russian biographical films Soviet historical films Russian historical films 1920s Russian-language films Films directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky Soviet black-and-white films 1920s historical films 1920s biographical films Russian black-and-white films 1920s Soviet films {{bio-film-stub