I painted this en plein air at the Russian Air Force Museum — it’s part of one story about aviation. “Epos” struck me with its whimsical appearance, resembling a duck, and especially with its unfulfilled fate: it was conceived as a reusable manned orbital aircraft, but never entered service. I’m drawn to exactly such machines — ambitious, strange-looking, and never having reached their hour.
The painting is held in the collection of the Central Museum of the Air Force of the Russian Federation.
