The dead Bridegroom: Scary stories of Russian folklore
This happened before the Revolution, during the time of the first war. I know about it from my parents, and villagers spoke of it long before that.
Realms of the Dead
Sandarmokh: The Karelian Execution Ground
In the spring of 2020, while you, the reader, were gathering dust in your apartment under the grip of quasi-quarantine, Northern Metaphysics visited the Karelian forest clearing with the strangely jaunty name of Sandar...
The Castle of Red Death: The Mortuary of Volzhsky
When the Bolsheviks came to power, they faced the monumental task of reshaping not only Russia’s socio-economic order but also completely reformatting the very paradigm of social consciousness, including the inner, spi...
Gimoretsky pogost — the town of the dead of the Russian North
On a mountain, atop a high hill, behind sturdy gates and oak walls, far from human dwellings, on the border of forest and field, there has stood for nearly four centuries a town of the dead — the Gimoretsky churchyard....
A Visitor from Beyond: Ghost Stories from Russian Folklore
"My husband wanted to go to the mill on Easter, and I told him: ‘Wait, don’t go on a holy day.’ At first he listened, but then he changed his mind. Came back and said, ‘I must be the only man left who obeys his wife,’ ...
Columbarium
Unusual NecroRussia: a grim and abandoned columbarium—a repository of cremation urns—hidden within one of St. Petersburg’s cemeteries.
