Gagarin gave me this painting as a wedding present and until he passed away it always hung opposite our bed. I always liked to think that the white spectre was the sun but Gagarin would then insist it was the moon - until Sputnik was launched. Then he said that it was Sputnik.
"The bedsheets on our wedding bed had tractors, fieldworkers, harvest and clay ovens. Gagarin though would always insist that the fieldworkers were soldiers and that the oven was a microscope. His mind worked like that. For him the world was three things - the military, science and our family."
(Valentina Gagarin).
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