Poste Restante, Paris

"Ten years of daily fireworks. Did the author become a real Parisian? Of course not! A Parisian can only be born. And why? A Parisian is always busy, full of worries, and taxes. It’s much better to live in Paris as a foreigner: you can rejoice, drink, eat, breathe air that smells of the neighboring ocean and fresh bread. That’s what we’ll talk about." Alexey Tarkhanov is a journalist, architect, and art critic, the special correspondent of the ID "Kommersant" in France. Together with the author, we’ll see today’s Paris—in winter and in summer, at a parade, during quarantine, during strikes, on days of celebrations and days of tragedies. We’ll talk about food and wine, art, fashion—its myths and creators from Louis Vuitton, Dior, Hermès. We’ll hear the voices of those who fell in love with Paris forever: Charles Aznavour, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Zaz, Pierre Cardin, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Renata Litvinova, Eva Green. "In times of perestroika, we amused ourselves with the film ‘Window to Paris’: in a communal apartment in St. Petersburg, there was an open window through which you could go out to a Paris roof. I didn’t imagine that a moment would come when this window would open for me. And not even a window. A whole door. The entranceway! And there—Paris. I would understand if there was someone in the entranceway wearing a green forage cap. You walk out of the house, and you’re asked a polite question: ‘What’s the purpose of your trip?’—‘Personal. For bread.’—‘Go ahead!’"