A European Cultural Saga: From Paris to St Petersburg (Arte 2024-MULTISUB)

A 2024 Documentary by Nadège De Peganow. Audio in French with subtitles in English, Spanish and French (click on CC for subtitles).

A 19th century love triangle from Paris to St Petersburg: the French opera singer Pauline Viardot, her publicist husband Louis and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The 19th century Europe they lived through was cosmopolitan and humanist and forged the modern continent we know today.

Developed with the British historian Orlando Figes, author of The Europeans - Three Lives and the Making of a European Culture (Penguin 2020), the documentary powerfully evokes the shared European culture and values that this extraordinary trio helped bring into being.