Re: Traces of Yul Brynner

["C.M. Fortunko" <fortunko@boulder.nist.gov>]

Oddmund,

Just a minor point of order, on July 11, 1920 there was no Soviet Union.=20

Chris


At 01:43 PM 4/17/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Someone mentioned Yul Brynner as a passionate Leica photographer some time
>ago. I was very surprised when I found his tomb the other day, just about=
 10
>miles from where I am living. He is buried in the Orthodox Monastery of=
 Luze
>from the 12th century (Abbaye Saint Michel de Bois Aubry). I was told that
>this has been a "secret" for many years.=20
>
>Yul Brynner was born in Vladivostok, Soviet Union July 11 1920 and died in
>New York, October 10 1985. According to his last will, his ashes was
>transferred to this silent place, so far away from the World. There is a
>simple, beautiful tomb stone, almost Zen, on an open place, and the wind
>blows even on sunny days. A handful of Orthodox monks and nuns still live
>and work there.
>
>Oddmund   =20
>
>
>PS: I found a short book review...
>
>"Yul Brynner: Photographer (Abrams. $39.95) Turns out the late Yul Brynner
>liked working the other side of a camera, too, so his daughter Victoria
>Brynner has compiled his photographs into this book. Yul had advantages in
>this avocation, of course, starting with access to co-stars like Anthony
>Quinn and Ingrid Bergman (who turns out to be one of his best subjects).=
 But
>he also shot children =97 famous children, children in refugee camps =97=
 and the
>collective work is not uninteresting."
>
>
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