The intertwined stories of Putin and Stalin’s refugees in a literary circle near Paris.

In the Paris suburb of Vanves, a small literary circle keeps alive the memory of the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, in the apartment where she lived before her doomed return to Stalin’s Russia.

Today’s Russian dissidents see in her verses a reflection of their own inner turmoil.

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André Aaron Bilis, Portrait de la poétesse russe Marina Tsvetaïeva (1931).

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My rivers tilt towards you

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“I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how unequivocal, how exactly what it says. Just – sleep. And nothing more. No, another thing: and know right into the deepest sleep that it is you. And more: how your heart sounds. And – kiss your heart.”

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