I absolutely love this painting by Mikhail Nemtsov of The Communal House of the
Textile Institute
[http://architectuul.com/architecture/communal-house-of-the-textile-institute]
in Moscow.
Designed by Ivan Sergeevich Nikolaev and completed in 1931, it
Without Pavel Klushantsev, Kubrick might never have made 2001.
In 1954, Klushantsev, pioneering Soviet sci-fi film director, began working on a
short film, part-documentary, part-visionary projection, about the Soviet
conquest of space. The
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/komarov.htm]
was the first man to die in space.
The Russian cosmonaut died aboard Soyuz 1 on April 24th, 1967, which crashed on
its
