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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.
Paraskeva Friday and the Cult in Ilyeshi
“Here, right next to the chapel itself, stands an old spreading birch tree which, as something sacred, is an object of reverent veneration. In its bark, at some height above the ground, a cobblestone has grown in so de...
