"And one should think about death too".
From a letter by director Andrei Tarkovsky dated November 4, 1970.
"For God's sake, forgive me for not writing for so long. I have something that is, in a way, the reason for my silence. I had a good friend and an excellent artist. Sooster. An Estonian. He was found dead in his studio a week ago. Stroke. 46 years old. A person about whom no one in the world could say anything except that he was a strongman. Indeed, under Stalin, he was repressed. And he was never accepted into the Union of Artists. And so he was not accepted.
We had snow, and winter suddenly came. It’s cold. So nothing cheerful has happened during this time. And one should think about death too. We will all die and will die in different ways. As God wills."
Ülo Sooster died in his studio on Sretenka Boulevard on October 25, 1970.
