Shot in a single 96-minute take on High Definition digtal video, this film weaves through 33 rooms of the Hermitage of St. Petersburg, and past 2,000+ actors and extras, following a disembodied voice (our narrator) as he's given a tour by a 19th century French diplomat (Dontsov) through both the Hermitage and the Russian history of the past 300 years, as the film shifts back and forth through time to show us historical figures like Catherine the Great, Nicholas I, Nicholas II, Peter the Great and others.