{"id":4444,"date":"2026-05-27T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soosterfoundation.org\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:10:52","slug":"kas-ulo-sooster-ja-juri-lotman-olid-isiklikult-tuttavad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soosterfoundation.org\/en\/kas-ulo-sooster-ja-juri-lotman-olid-isiklikult-tuttavad\/","title":{"rendered":"The dialogue of destinies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Were \u00dclo Sooster and Yuri Lotman personally acquainted? We do not have an answer to that question. But they certainly knew of one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were almost the same age: Lotman was born in 1922 in Petrograd, \u00dclo in 1924 on Hiiumaa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his outstanding scholarly achievements, Yuri Lotman was denied an academic position at the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad University. His move to Tartu in 1950 saved him from hopelessness and antisemitic persecution. The University of Tartu became his beloved home - and the university was repaid a hundredfold: the works of this world-renowned scholar and cultural theorist have been translated into dozens of languages, and his theories are studied at universities around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After seven years of imprisonment in Karlag, \u00dclo Sooster was rehabilitated and returned to Estonia in 1956. He had a diploma from the Tartu Art Institute (Pallas) in hand; all that remained was to join the Artists\u2019 Union of Estonia and begin working professionally. \u00dclo created a series of portraits of miners and was refused: \u201cfor distorting the image of the Soviet person.\u201d A refusal of the work he lived by - in every sense of the word\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next 14 years Sooster would spend in Moscow, while continuing to visit Estonia and Tartu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the year of \u00dclo Sooster\u2019s death, Lotman was head of a department and a professor at the University of Tartu. The university leadership defended him even before the KGB, whose officers searched the scholar\u2019s apartment, suspecting samizdat and ties to dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the late 1980s, film director Andrei Khrzhanovsky decided to make two films about his friend \u00dclo Sooster and approached Yuri Lotman to share his impressions of the artist\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo record Yuri Mikhailovich, I travelled to Tartu and brought with me the first film about Sooster - Landscape with Junipers - as well as a second film from the Pushkin cycle that I had long promised Lotman. First we screened the film about Sooster, and then the one about Pushkin. When the screening ended and the lights came on, I noticed Yuri Mikhailovich\u2019s eyes were wet. I asked for his impression of the Pushkin film. \u2018You may consider that I didn\u2019t see it at all: throughout the Sooster film I cried, and for a long time I couldn\u2019t stop my tears\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2007, a monument to Yuri Lotman was unveiled in Tartu: a surrealist composition of 15-meter steel tubes. Yet from a certain angle, one can discern the recognizable image of the great scholar. Interestingly, sculptor Mati Karmin took as his point of departure a self-portrait Lotman had made in the form of a caricature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty years later, in October 2027, a monument to the genius artist \u00dclo Sooster will be unveiled on the island of Hiiumaa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such is this dialogue of destinies\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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