The Russia We Lost (Russian: Россия, которую мы потеряли, romanized: Rossiya, kotoruyu my poteryali, lit.
'Russia, which we lost') is a 1992 Russian documentary film directed and narrated by Stanislav Govorukhin, dedicated to pre-revolutionary Russia.
In 1991, Stanislav Govorukhin published a book which he called The Russia...we Lost (Россия… Которую мы потеряли), which formed the basis of the script of this film.
Standing on the positions of anti-communism, the director largely idealizes tsarist Russia and criticizes Maxim Gorky.
And why, why didn't we know anything about her, about our Homeland?The film had a strong public response[2] and played a significant role in breaking the mass consciousness of the Soviet people in the early 1990s.