“The Captain’s Daughter” is a 1999 historical movie based on the eponymous work by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin as well as his monograph “The History of Pugachev”. The movie was dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth.
For the filming of this movie, the employees and students of Orenburg Agrarian University built wooden sets on the Red Mountain near the Saraktash village in Orenburg Oblast. Their work was organized by the movie’s art directors. These sets were copies of the Belogorsk Fortress with houses, a mill, a church, and a fortress wall. After filming, the buildings were preserved as an open-air museum.
Pyotr Grinyov, a character from Alexander Pushkin’s historical novel “The Captain’s Daughter”, is the narrator in the movie. His travel trunk, displayed at the exhibition, was a prop for the movie.
In an interview with the “Vladivostok” newspaper in 1999, the director Alexander Anatolyevich Proshkin explained the choice of the actor for the role of Pyotr Grinyov,
