artists ilya lebedev and dmitry ananyev considered it their moral duty to create an epic work on the of the sixth company, to immortalize the feat of the russian paratroopers. i wanted to make something like a monument to the guys, that everything was for a reason, that it was not in vain that they did it, that no matter what anyone said, they did everything right, and did not retreat, did not leave, acted as they should have done, that is these guys, these heroes, they are my generation, that is, i, in principle, could have been there, but i wasn’t there , and there seemed to be such a small sense of duty that i had to do something, well, at least for their memory, and now, when i see that... there is this diorama where they can come visitors, look, remember them, that is, i, as an artist, am absolutely happy. to accurately recreate the picture of that memorable brutal battle, the artists did a tremendous amount of preparatory work. they studied the history of the battle in detail, met with the relatives of the fallen soldiers, repeatedly went to the scene of events, when we... arri