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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....
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....
Places of Those Who Died an Untimely Death
Anyone who has ever been out of town has seen gravemarkers raised here and there along highways—memorials to those killed in car crashes. Sometimes you can find something similar in cities too: wreaths and flowers tied...