On 2 March we invite you to a meeting with Soviet and Russian journalist, international observer, TV presenter, writer, author of documentaries, TEFI award winner, Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation – Leonid Mlechin.
The beautiful years and subjects depicted in the photographs of 1890-1910 are replaced by symbolic subjects of broken trees and emotional portraits; the first roles are occupied by photographs of large buildings, factories and the road of ‘fate’…

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR. UNFINISHED WAR.”
In that war a lot of poison was injected into people’s minds. ‘Better someone else’s blood on the blade of your knife than someone else’s knife in your blood’ – this phrase belongs to the German writer Hermann Löns, who in 1914 went to the front as a volunteer. The First World War did not solve any of the contradictions that were tearing Europe apart at that time; worse, it only aggravated them and sowed the seeds of new conflicts that are still burning to this day. It is not for nothing that after the First World War the British writer Richard Aldington called his main novel “All men are enemies”. Europe could no longer return to the prosperous state in which it had been at the beginning of the century. When the First World War broke out, the continent began its slide from the heights of political, military, economic and cultural leadership. The lowest, indeed tragic, low point was the rise to power of the Nazis. A century later, the national passions ignited by the First World War are raging in many European countries. Conventionally drawn borders in the Middle East still spawn endless conflict to this day. The demons that spawned the First World War have gone nowhere.” L.M.Mlechin.