A film from the film series Chosen by Time.

The story of Nikolai Grigorievich Repnin-Volkonsky (1778-1845), the hero of Austerlitz, viceroy of Saxony after Napoleon's defeat, Governor-General of Little Russia (1816-1835), a disgraced prince during the reign of Nicholas I in the Russian Empire, whom everyone considered a man of the past, the Alexander era.

When he was governor-general of Little Russia, it was he who appointed the author of the Aeneid, I. P. Kotliarevsky, as director of the Poltava theater and supported the theater financially. With Repnin's assistance, Mykhailo Shchepkin was redeemed from serfdom. Considerable sums of money were invested in the revival of the famous Gustyn Monastery at the will of the Governor-General...