Towns and villages
How to Get Rid of a Walking Corpse
If you ever happen to meet a walking corpse—or, worse still, if one has taken to visiting you—and conversation with the deceased is not part of your plans, there are many ways to get rid of it. Here and now, we shall t...
Kuzomen: The Village
We keep keeping on: the second part of our photo cycle about Kuzomen is dedicated to the village itself.
At the Edge of the World
Photographs from the Tersky Coast of the White Sea, taken in the old Pomor village of Kashkarantsy.
Words for the Dead: A Russian Folk Incantation
To take a hair from the head of the one they wish to harm, and place it in an uncooked egg; then seal the opening through which the hair is put with sulfur. Then take forty rye grains and grind them counter to the sun....
Lampovo: Old Believer Village near St. Petersburg
The Izhora Plateau—known in old Western sources as Ingermanland —is not the sort of place you would expect to find Russian Old Believers. No famous spiritual centers ever rose here, no wandering prophets o...