Dreamers vs. Cosmonauts

You have seen photographs by Evgeny Feldman, even if you don't know who took them. The panorama of the rally on Bolotnaya, Alexei Navalny with 'Doshirak' on the way to the Central Election Commission, clashes with 'Berkut' on Maidan, the 'parade of captives' in Donetsk, a human chain in Minsk - in Feldman's frames an entire era is encapsulated, and no one else has seen so many of its key events from such close range.

In just a few years, a teenager who attended punk concerts with a 'soapbox' became the most famous documentary filmmaker in Russia, while the country descended into brutal repression and full-scale war. To honestly portray the main stages of this journey, Feldman repeatedly risked his life and broke prohibitions. Therefore, the book in which he talks about his work reads simultaneously as a tragedy and as an adventure novel.