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This transformation becomes a metaphor for memory fading and for nature’s steady return when human presence recedes. In the first image, the small detail of a C-stand wheel quietly hints at the constructed nature of the scene and invites the viewer to question what is staged and what is real.

Peredelkino has welcomed authors such as Boris Pasternak, who won the Nobel Prize in 1958 for Doctor Zhivago, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel laureate in 1970 for The Gulag Archipelago. Their works have questioned freedom, isolation and the search for meaning. Choosing this place connects the project to these themes.

The protagonist, dressed with care, seems almost out of place in these overgrown rooms, raising the question of whether comfort and luxury can truly bring happiness. The photographs reflect on what we leave behind for those who come after us, whether by choice or by circumstance.

All images were created using analog film and developed by hand, focusing on slowness, silence and the traces of emptiness that remain when time passes. Each scene shows a different mood and emotion, from reflection to melancholy to brief hope, always returning to the uncertainty of what comes next. The final image, with the writer sitting at his typewriter, leaves the story unresolved and open, as if the ending is still being written now.

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