Left: Alexander Kibovsky, Head of the Moscow Department of Culture, pays last respects to writer Fazil Iskander at the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902889
Chairperson of the Russian Political Party of Peace and Unity Sazhi Umalatova at the ceremony of bidding farewell to writer Fazil Iskander in the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902888
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko speaks at the ceremony of bidding farewell to writer Fazil Iskander in the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902844
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko speaks at the ceremony of bidding farewell to writer Fazil Iskander in the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902841
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko (second left) speaks at the ceremony of bidding farewell to writer Fazil Iskander in the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902847
President of Abkhazia Raul Khadzhimba, second left, at the farewell ceremony for writer Fazil Iskander at the Cental House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902843
President of Abkhazia Raul Khadzhimba at the farewell ceremony for writer Fazil Iskander at the Cental House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902836
Chairman of the federation Council Committee on International Affairs Konstantin Kosachev at the ceremony of bidding farewell to writer Fazil Iskander in the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902838
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko at the farewell ceremony for writer Fazil Iskander at the Cental House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902834
Actor Alexander Filippenko pays last respects to writer Fazil Iskander at the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902822
Actor Alexander Filippenko pays last respects to writer Fazil Iskander at the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902824
Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky pays last respects to writer Fazil Iskander at the Central House of Writers in Moscow. Second right: Antonina Khlebnikova, the widow of writer Fazil Iskander.02.08.2016#2902819
Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky pays last respects to writer Fazil Iskander at the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902817
Antonina Khlebnikova, the widow of writer Fazil Iskander, pays last respects to him at the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902787
Writer, playwright and TV show host Andrei Maximov pays last respects to writer Fazil Iskander at the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902779
Right: Sergei Stepashin, Head of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, pays last respects to writer Fazil Iskander at the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902781
Yuriy Norshteyn, film director and animator, during the funeral of Fazil Iskander, writer, in Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902750
Writer Yevgeny Popov pays last respects to writer Fazil Iskander at the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902814
Sergei Filatov, President of the Foundation of Socioeconomic and Intellectual Programs, pays last respects to writer Fazil Iskander at the Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902910
Sergei Filatov, chairman of Social, Eonomic and Intellectual Programmes Fund, during the farewell ceremony of writer Fazil Iskander in Central House of Writers in Moscow.02.08.2016#2902738
The portrait of writer Fazil Iskander and flowers at the Central House of Writers in Moscow where people are paying their last respects to Iskander.02.08.2016#2902731
Military vehicles move along Tverskaya Street before a night rehearsal of military parade on Red Square for the 71st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.05.05.2016#2839654
Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missile system during training of a mechanized unit of the St. Petersburg garrison troops ahead of the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.15.04.2015#2605911
Mikhail Degtyaryov, Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party, participating in the action "Fashions' answer|: No to the Sanctions!" to be held in Moscow from September 23 to October 6. Over 30,000 T-shirts with patriotic inscriptions are to be handed out. The label on this shirt goes as "Sanctions? Don't make me, with my Iskanders, laugh".23.09.2014#2497720
Girl seen in the Pushkinskaya Square, participating in the action "Fashions' answer: No to the Sanctions!" to be held in Moscow from September 23 to October 6. Over 30,000 T-shirts with patriotic inscriptions are to be handed out. The label on this shirt goes as ""Sanctions? Don't make me, with my Iskanders, laugh".23.09.2014#2497718
Participant in the action "Fashions' answer|: No to the Sanctions!" to be held in Moscow from September 23 to October 6. Over 30,000 T-shirts with patriotic inscriptions are to be handed out. The label on this shirt goes as "Sanctions? Don't make me, with my Iskanders, laugh".23.09.2014#2497646
Participant in the action "Fashions' answer|: No to the Sanctions!" to be held in Moscow from September 23 to October 6. Over 30,000 T-shirts with patriotic inscriptions are to be handed out. The label on this shirt goes as "Sanctions? Don't make me, with my Iskanders, laugh".23.09.2014#2497645
Participants in the action "Fashions' answe: No to the Sanctions!" to be held in Moscow from September 23 to October 6. Over 30,000 T-shirts with patriotic inscriptions are to be handed out. The labesl on these shirts go as "Sanctions? Don't make me, with my Iskanders, laugh" and "Topol-M is not afraid of sanctions!".23.09.2014#2497644
The crew of an ammunition truck/launcher of a Buk-2-M surface-to-air missile [SAM] system training for the May 9 Victory Day Parade on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square.28.04.2009#390319
The crew of a BMD-4 airborne fighting vehicle training for the May 9 Victory Day Parade on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square.28.04.2009#390318
The crew of a BMD-4 airborne fighting vehicle training for the May 9 Victory Day Parade on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square.28.04.2009#390315
The crew of an ammunition truck/launcher of a Buk-2-M surface-to-air missile [SAM] system training for the May 9 Victory Day Parade on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square.28.04.2009#390314
A scene from The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin, directed by Yury Kara (Maxim Gorky Studios, Ladya Experimental Creative Association, 1989). A screen version of the novella The Feasts of Belshazzar from Fazil Iskander's novel Sandro of Chegem. Third left: People's Artist of Russia Alexei Petrenko as Joseph Stalin.04.06.1990#6729217
Soviet writer Fazil Iskander speaks at the opening of the 1st International Festival of Films and TV Shows for Children and Youth in Moscow.01.04.1989#8226799
Oleg Mamalyga, director and chief designer of tactical ballistic missile systems Iskander, Iskander-M, Iskander-E. Machine Engineering Design Bureau.01.01.1989#6747609
From left: Soviet journalist and presenter Eduard Salagayev, theater and film actor Rolan Bykov with writer Fazil Iskander during the filming of the popular show "The 12th floor" at the USSR Gosteleradio Central Television.10.10.1986#5728873
Writer Fazil Iskander is seen at home with his wife Antonina Khlebnikova (Iskander) and their daughter Marina.02.02.1982#6693387