The Flight of Eagles

The extraordinary hidden background of Guillaume Apollinaire, who coined the term 'Cubism' to describe the revolutionary depiction of reality invented by his friends Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, was a forefather of Surrealism, playwright, novelist, art-critic and leading poet of the 20th Century.

The Kostrovitski Triptych is a kaleidoscopic tapestry of intertwined stories of Godwinsons, Gediminids, Rurikids, Ostiks, Kostrovitskis, Bonapartes, Habsburgs, Venceliks z Vrchovist and Lada Moczarskis - from Saxon England and Viking Denmark, Rus (Kiev, Minsk, Muscovy and Novgorod), Lithuania, Poland, France, Austria, Bohemia and elsewhere - from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era.