This short, five-minute video introduces viewers to the world of Nina Kossman's paintings.

Participants (in alphabetical order by last name): Aleksey Alexandrov, Vladimir Bogomyakov, Ilya Bronshteyn, Leo Epstein, А. Гальпер, Anna Halberstadt, Геннадий Казакевич, German Lukomnikov, Katia Kapovich, Vitaly Komar, Nina Kossman, Anna Kreslavsky, Philip Nikolayev, Mikhail Rabinovich, Игорь Сатановский, Julia Trubikhina & Elizabeth Hulick, Алексей Цветков, and Татьяна Щербина.

Participants (in alphabetical order): Elena Berezetsky (San Diego),Kristina Andersson Bicher, Tatiana Bonch (Sydney, Australia), Ольга Брагина (Kiev), Ilya Bronshteyn (New York), Linda Morales Caballero (New York), Юля Фридман (Moscow), Marina Eskin (Boston), Anna Halberstadt (New York), Elizabeth Hulick (New York), Alta Ifland (San Francisco), Nina Kossman (New York), Дмитрий Манин (California), Julia Nemirovskaya (Oregon), Ian Probstein (New York), Vlad Pryakhin (Russia), Susan Reynolds (Oxford, UK),Gali-Dana Singer (Jerusalem), E.V. Svetova (New York), Julia Trubikhina Kunina (New York), Tatiana Retivov (Kiev), Katherine Young (Virginia).

Participants (in alphabetical order): Vladimir Bogomyakov (Siberia, Russia), Nancy Naomi Carlson (Maryland) & Marie-Léontine Tsibinda Bilombo (Congo), Marina Eskin (Boston), Anne Fisher (Indiana), Anna Halberstadt (New York), Elizabeth Hulick (New York), Nina Kossman (New York), Jenya Krein (Boston), Julia Kunina-Julia Trubikhina (New York), Дмитрий Манин (California), Ian Probstein (New York), Gali-Dana Singer (Jerusalem), Andrew Singer ( New York), Margarita Slivniak (Toronto), Alexander Veytsman (New York), Anton Yakovlev (New York), Mary Jane White (Iowa), Josie von Zitzewitz (London, UK / Tromso, Norway), Igor Satanovsky (New York).

Participants (in alphabetical order by last name): Lera Auerbach (USA), Tatiana Bonch (Australia), Marina Eskin (USA), Gena Gruz (USA), Anna Halberstadt (USA), Galina Itzkovich (USA), Gennadi Kazakevitch (Australia), Nina Kossman (USA), Pavel Lembersky (USA), Dmitry Manin (USA), Ian Probstein (USA), Susan Reynolds (UK), Michael Romm (USA), Olga Shvarova (UK), Gari Lait (USA), Alexander Veytsman (USA), Ian Ross Singleton (USA), Andrew Singer (USA), Mary Jane White (USA), Anton Yakovlev (USA). Mark Wingrave (Australia), Olga Zilberbourg (California), and Matthew Salomon (Maryland) participated through listening.

On 29-30 September 1941, the Nazis executed 33,771 people at a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev known as Babi Yar. Babi Yar is one of thousands of mass murder sites of Soviet Jews during World War II. Nina Kossman reads her poem, in Russian and in English, as part of commemorating the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied Soviet territory during WWII.

Translator Nina Kossman reads her translations of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the greatest Russian poets of the last century.