Tender and affectionate beast

My Tender and Affectionate Beast (also called A Hunting Drama) is a fim directed by Emil Lotyanu starring Galina Belyayeva and the wonderful Oleg Yankovsky. It was based on a Chekhov short story.

 

Everything is beautiful. 

 

Perfect.

 

 

Tragic.

Winter Palace

'It seemed ridiculous and yet marvellous at the same time, that anyone could have been brave enough and foolish enough to build such a palace here, in a world made out of winter.'
From The Wolf Princess

Palace from the film, My Tender and Affectionate Beast, directed by Emil Lotyanu, based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

Nightingale Fever

A song from the Soviet film, 'The Irony of Fate' starring Barbara Brylska and Andrei Myagkov, directed by Eldar Ryazanov in 1975.