A fierce wind is blowing

In the heart of Tbilisi, where stories abound and streets whisper secrets of the past, lies the Stalin Underground Printing House Museum. Located in the historic Avlabari District, the museum takes you deep into the clandestine world of early 20th-century Soviet-era Georgia. A self-styled warden who lives in a tiny room at the museum embraces freedom in the most unusual way. It is his lifelong mission to guard that world he is so proud of. It was a world of young communists who printed propaganda flyers in secret. In 1903, a young firebrand named Iosif Jughashvili - who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin - set up a covert operation to churn out anti-Tsarist literature in Georgian, Russian and Armenian. A liberator of the world and civilization, he was called. In the dimly lit chambers of the museum where ink and sweat once mixed, one can almost hear the echoes of a young Stalin and his comrades plotting an empire's demise. Empires rise and fall, but their impact shapes the world we live in today. "Look back over the past, with its changing empires rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too." - Marcus Aurelius The series is titled "A fierce wind is blowing". Images' titles are: Illusions are what we enter into, Passion is colored red, Hellbent destruction is its name, Fiercely loyal, A fierce wind is blowing, Infested.