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1944. Literature professor Maria Schiller arrives from Germany at the Pushkin museum in the German-occupied village of Mikhailovskoye and carries out educational work among Wehrmacht soldiers and local peasants, telling them about the great Russian poet. Her actions draw the disapproval of the German command. The front draws ever closer, and soon an order arrives from Berlin to remove all historical treasures from Mikhailovskoye. Neither the partisans nor the local craftsman Sergei, who is bound to Maria by a forbidden relationship ruinous to them both, can allow this to happen. Sergei decides to save his country's heritage at any cost. Pushkin's legacy must remain in Russia. Even at the cost of his life…