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The Reindeer-and-Chum Cemetery of Lovozero
Continuing the Lopar theme, here are several reindeer-and-chum photographs from the cemetery of Lovozero, the capital of the Russian Sámi.
The Dead Noid (From Sámi Folklore)
There once lived in Notozero a noid named Riz. He harmed many people, and helped many as well. At last, in his old age, he himself fell ill. Everyone thought he would recover, but it turned out otherwise. After some ti...
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...
The Stone by the Village of Stone
The road kept changing, as if it obeyed some mythic logic of its own. From a solid highway you have to turn onto an old, battered strip of asphalt, then weave through forests and half-abandoned villages until you find ...
Anastasia the Seated
The beginning of this story resembles a fairy tale: once there lived a Russian engineer who had three daughters, and his wife had died. By the Tsar’s order he came from St. Petersburg to the city of Tiflis to build a r...
A little winter atmosphere
A little winter atmosphere: the cemetery Church of the Resurrection of Christ, built in the 18th century in the Baroque style, and the empty house of the rural clergy in the now-uninhabited village of Verkhovye.
The Mother of God’s Footprint
Another forest shrine: a stone—one of the many miraculous “footprint stones”—in the Kostroma taiga, not far from the town of Soligalich.
