Sergey Maximishin's first book is set across the territory of the former USSR, its photographs showing how Russia and the former Soviet republics were living twenty years after the Empire's collapse. The book is an attempt to grasp the changes in the lives of former "Soviet people" - or the absence of change, set against the scale of millennia. Maximishin's Last Empire is a new reality that, twenty years earlier, no one could have imagined; the book is addressed to anyone who, like its author, is still moved by the fate of a country that has vanished from the map and that people once called their Motherland.