For six years before the war, every month, a poet was invited to read and reflect on their own work. Everything was filmed with care. Now, for the first time, the full archive is open to the public.
Sixty-four poets. For many it was the only time they were ever filmed. For some, it was the last.
От-Автора is an unprecedented film archive of contemporary Russian-language poetry, and a living platform. The events section is open for readings, presentations and encounters with poets. The video library welcomes footage of poets reading their own work.
Everything at otavtora.world
The Globe opened in 1952 in the Latin Quarter. Within five years, a Soviet-French cultural cooperation agreement had been signed, and
the Globe became a meeting point for cross-cultural literary exchange — not just a bookshop but a gathering space, with French readers as welcome as Russian ones. For decades it was the place in Paris where two literary worlds quietly met. Some places outlast everything thrown at them. Because Russian culture has always had readers far beyond its borders, and the places that make that possible deserve to be known. First: Librairie du Globe, Paris, Est. 1952.
Where does the human end and the avatar begin?
Deep Fake — a mockumentary performance that puts you inside the uncanny world of filming digital doubles. And now, show is going on tour.
📍 May 30 — Berlin, Alte Münze
📍 June 2 — Amsterdam, Localie Hub
Who was one of the founders of abstract expressionism? “Untitled (First Abstract Watercolor) 1910” is considered to be the first of Kandinsky’s abstract works. Kandinsky’s 1911 treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art argued that colour and form alone could carry emotional weight without representing anything — an idea that directly inspired the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s. His influence crossed every cultural border.
Anton Chekhov wrote about people stuck between the life they have and the life they wanted. In 2026, his plays are on stages in New York, London, and Stratford. Each generation seems to find something new in them.
Russian creativity has not been frozen in the past — it is alive now, and it exists in places around the world where writers, artists, and journalists have left and continue to leave their mark, from a New York restaurant founded in the 20th century to galleries currently being created with works and exhibitions by Russian artists.
In 1302, Dante was banished from Florence and told he’d be burned alive if he returned. He spent 20 years wandering Italian courts and wrote The Divine Comedy — one of the greatest works in world literature.
In 1935, Sergei Prokofiev composed Romeo and Juliet in Paris. By 1948, his music was banned. Right now, a French choreographer reimagines it at Park Avenue Armory while 400+ performances happen worldwide — Boston, Philadelphia, Monte Carlo, Zurich, Florence, Riga. Culture crosses every border we try to draw.
A square in Paris. A museum in Nice. A studio colony where Chagall once painted. Europe carved space for Russian emigrant artists, turning displacement into permanence. Here are 5 places in Europe that remember those who turned exile into art.
