On a sunny afternoon in January 1912, two young men were seen skating on the frozen river Havel, a few miles from Berlin. One of the men had recently been hailed a serious talent in the Berlin-based expressionist movement; his name was Georg Heym and at only 24 years old he had already received acclaim for his unsettling and original poems.
An RA exhibit details attempts to wipe out Ukrainian culture – and what survived
The parallels between the threat to Ukrainian culture in the 1930s and today are unmistakable.