Watch: A European cultural saga – from Paris to St Petersburg (ARTE)

Pauline Viardot was perhaps the most fêted opera singer of the 1840s and 1850s

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.

 

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