As a result of this tragic event Parajanov left Russia for Kiev, Ukraine.

After directing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors ( renamed Wild Horses of Fire for most foreign distributions ) Parajanov had become something of an international celebrity and simultaneously a target of attacks from the system.

Parajanov was imprisoned until 1977, despite a plethora of pleas for pardon from various esteemed artists.

She came from a Muslim Tatar family and converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity to marry Parajanov, to terrible consequences: she was later murdered by her relatives in retaliation for her conversion.

In February 1982 Parajanov was once again imprisoned, on charges of bribery, which happened to coincide with his return to Moscow for the premiere of a play commemorating Vladimir Vysotsky at the Taganka Theatre, and were affected with some degree of trickery.

By 1984, the slow thaw within the Soviet Union spurred Parajanov to resume his passion for cinema.

Most well-known examples of such films are those by directors Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov and Nikita Mikhalkov.

His vision of the world was influenced by Masters like the stage designer Misha Frenkel, the director Sergei Parajanov, the writer Viktor Nekrasov, etc.

Famous filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Sergei Parajanov and Krzysztof Kieślowski praised the film and cited it as an influence on their work.

Filmmaker Sergei Parajanov and Krzysztof Kieślowski praised the film and cited it as influence on their work.

* The 1968 Armenian film Sayat Nova directed by Sergei Parajanov follows the poet's path from his childhood wool-dying days to his role as a courtier and finally his life as a monk.

* The first translations of the Armenian odes of Sayat Nova in European languages was in France by Elisabeth Mouradian and the French poet Serge Venturini in 2006 ; the book was dedicated to Sergei Parajanov.

Sergei Parajanov (, Sargis or Sarkis Hofsepi Paradzhanian ;, Sergei ( Sergo ) Parajanov ;, Sergei Yosifovich Paradzhanov ;, Serhii Yosypovych Paradzhanov ; sometimes spelled Paradzhanov or Paradjanov January 9, 1924 — July 20, 1990 ) was Georgian-born Armenian film director and artist, who significantly contributed to Ukrainian, Armenian and Georgian cinema.

His health seriously weakened by four years in labor camps and nine months in a Tbilisi prison, Parajanov died of lung cancer in 1990, at the time when, after almost 20 years of suppression, his films were finally again allowed to be featured in foreign film festivals.

Parajanov was born to artistically-gifted Armenian parents Iosif Paradjanov and Siranush Bejanova, in Tbilisi, Georgia.

In 1945, Parajanov traveled to Moscow, enrolled in the directing department at the VGIK, one of the oldest and highly respected film schools of Europe, and studied under the tutelage of directors Igor Savchenko and Aleksandr Dovzhenko.

In 1950 Parajanov married his first wife, Nigyar Kerimova in Moscow.

He learned and became fluent in Ukrainian and remarried ( with Svitlana Ivanivna Shcherbatiuk aka Svetlana Sherbatiuk aka Svetlana Parajanov ) in 1956.

Parajanov re-edited his footage and renamed the film, The Color of Pomegranates.

Parajanov served four years out of his five year sentence, and later credited his early release to the efforts of the French Surrealist poet and novelist Louis Aragon, the Russian poet Elsa Triolet ( Aragon's wife ), and the American writer John Updike.

When asked by the Secretary if he could be of any assistance, Aragon requested the release of Parajanov, which was effected by December 1977.

While incarcerated Parajanov produced a large number of miniature doll-like sculptures ( some of which were lost ) and some 800 drawings and collages, many of which were later displayed in Yerevan, where the Parajanov Museum is now permanently located.

The museum opened in 1991, a year after Parajanov ’ s death, and hosts more than 200 works as well as furnishings from his home in Tbilisi.

Upon his return from prison to Tbilisi, the close watch of Soviet censors prevented Parajanov from continuing his cinematic pursuits and steered him towards artistic outlets which he had nurtured during his time in prison.

Mass executions at Babi Yar continued up until the German forces departed from Kiev.

He consulted the most learned of the Greek prelates abroad ; invited them to a consultation at Moscow ; and finally the scholars of Constantinople and Kiev convinced the eyes of Nikon that the Muscovite service-books were heterodox, and that the icons actually in use had very widely departed from the ancient Constantinopolitan models, being for the most part imbued with the Polish baroque influences.

At summer's end, he departed for Moscow, where he had an exhibition at the Musée Occidental ( Western Museum ), then at the museum of Kiev.

Ethridge departed shortly thereafter.

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In 1996, Top Cow briefly departed from Image during a power struggle with Image associate Rob Liefeld until Liefeld left the company shortly after.

But William Dayton was stricken with poor health, and departed New York shortly afterwards for more temperate climes.

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Timmy Jack Ray departed the group shortly after.

On June 30, 1898, the first passenger train arrived in Port aux Basques, and the Bruce departed for North Sydney shortly afterward.

The band left the label, and shortly thereafter drummer Atom Willard departed the group.