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Alexandr Radayev
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One of Romadin's drawings for the film "Solaris" features Saint Sebastian pierced by arrows, who may have appeared in early versions of the script or the director's preliminary work, but is absent from the final version
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Visualisation by production designer Mikhail Romadin and a still from Tarkovsky's Solaris
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Two men in a room with a staircase and bookshelves
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin and his illustrations for Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Solaris”
Illustrations for Andrei Tarkovsky's production of the film Solaris. Artist: Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin
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When Tarkovsky, the cinematographer Yusov and I had only just begun work on the film "Solaris", we managed to see a new film: Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"
When Tarkovsky, the cinematographer Yusov and I had only just begun work on the film "Solaris", we managed to see a new film: Stanley Kubrick's "A Space Odyssey". We wanted to do something directly opposite. Recalled by Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin (1940–2012), production designer
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François René de Chateaubriand, French writer
When a man believes in nothing, he is very close to believing in everything. François René de Chateaubriand
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Who Would Have Thought Rubens Would Suit Johnson So Well
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Pig Latin, you say?
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Honoré Daumier, Bathers, 1852–53
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This hanging in the Large Dining Room of the collector Sergei Shchukin's house was called the Gauguin iconostasis by the art critic Yakov Tugendhold
This hanging in the Large Dining Room of the collector Sergei Shchukin's house was called the Gauguin iconostasis by the art critic Yakov Tugendhold. At the exhibition in the Hermitage, the iconostasis could be reproduced almost in its entirety
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Cult statue of Artemis of Ephesus and the fate of the temple, one of the Seven Wonders
This is what the cult statue from the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, looks like. It is the very temple that was burnt down by Herostratus in 356 BC, reputedly on the day of the birth of Alexander the Great. Alexander of