(08.03.1926 – 18.07.1984)

Grigori Kromanov, renowned Estonian artist, graduated from Moscow’s GITIS drama school (1953), then worked in Tallinn as a theatre and television director. He began working at Tallinfilm studios in the sixties, and during the sixties and seventies became one of Estonia’s top personalities. His work in film includes: “The Last Relic” (Viimne reliikvia, 1968), “Brilliants for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” (Briljandid proletariaadi diktatuurile, 1976), and the sci-fi attraction “The Dead Mountaineer Hotel” (Hukkunud alpinisti hotell, 1979). After 1981 he directed for Tallinn’s Russian Dramatic Theatre.