Plot synopsis

The film is about the famous poet, one of the creators of Russian symbolism who lived at the beginning of the XX century. He knew many languages and was a translator who opened to the Russian theatre the great European dramatists including Ibsen, Strinberg, Gauptman, Metterlink, Wild. Chekhov, Gorky, Andreev, Stanislavsky, Komissarzhevskaya, Meierkhold, Mardzhanov, Tairov were eager to meet him. Later he became a diplomat and saved from the Bolshevik terror Marina Tsetaeva, Konstantin Balmont, Nina Berberova, Boris Zaitsev, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Alexei Remisov, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Semen Dubnov, Alexei Khodasevich, Philipp Malyavin, Leonid Pasternak, Mark Shagal and many others. He became the outstanding worker of Russian and European culture.

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2013

- Annual Independent Russian-American Documentary Film Festival in New York​ (Tribeca), New York (USA), 2013

- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2012