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Kegrin Päivä: the Krampus of the Karelian Forests
In olden times, in late autumn—at the beginning of November, when the days grow colder and shorter—the Karelians celebrated Kegrin päivä, a now-forgotten feast connected with the coming of the god Kegri—the Krampus of ...
Tepe-Kermen
Winter, snow, mountain passes, peaks, a medieval hillfort… Do you think we like that? You don’t even have to ask.
At the Edge of the World
Photographs from the Tersky Coast of the White Sea, taken in the old Pomor village of Kashkarantsy.
Euthymius the Arkhangelsk Wonderworker
On July 7, 1647, the blacksmith Evstafii Trofimov, preparing to build a new smithy in the courtyard of the Arkhangelsk voevoda, Prince Buinosov-Rostovsky, began digging a pit for the foundation of a forge hearth....
