April 2011
51 posts
“Sitting beside the young woman, who looked so beautiful in the dawn, appeased...”
– Anton Chekhov, “The Lady With The Little Dog”
The White Duck: A Russian Folk Tale
ifmylifewasafairytale:
There was once a prince who married a most beautiful princess, but he had not yet had time to feast his eyes on her to his heart’s content or to have enough of talking to and hstening to her when the time came for them to part, for he had to go on a far journey. What was to be done! The princess wept and the prince, who kept begging her not to, bade her, since he was...
The Feather of Finist the Falcon
ifmylifewasafairytale:
Once, in olden times, there was a merchant whose wife had died, leaving him three daughters. The eldest two were plain of face and hard of heart and cared for nothing but finery, while the youngest was a good house keeper, kind-hearted, and so beautiful that it could neither be told in a tale nor written down with a pen.
One day, when the merchant set out for the Fair, he...
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Watchjussihellsten:
“Help-Portrait is an organization of photographers who shoot free portraits to share their art and enrich others lives. Most photographers shoot free portraits around their communities but Sasha Leahovcenco wanted to shoot people that may never get the opportunity to have their picture taken at all. Sasha and his crew traveled to Chukotka, Russia and produced an amazing video of...
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Abandoned in Russia
russianthisandthat:
Abandoned Machinery outside of Moscow.
One of hundreds of ships in Kamchatka, Russia.
Russian MIG fighters deemed too radioactive to fly in Pripyat, Ukraine
Church in Yaroslavl, no one knows why it was abandoned
The site of the 1980 Olympics in Kislovodsk, now in disrepair
War photography →
wilr:
The Red Army
Two Red Army soldiers opening Nazi badges.
Two Red Army soldiers lie in the brush with sniper rifles.
Red Army soldiers move up to the front lines.
I find war photography extremely poignant, and deeply emotional.
EVERY INCH A KING: Not a true story, just an old... →
fuckyeahcrazyleaders:
Stalin is addressing a crowd when, during a pause in his speech, someone sneezes. He yells out, “who sneezed?” No one will admit to it. “First row, stand,” Stalin orders. They do. “Shoot them.” The first row of the crowd is led out by the guards and executed. “Who sneezed?” Stalin asks again. Still nobody says anything. “Second row, stand.” They stand. “Shoot them.” The...
inlikewiththecity:
Frontier Facades: An appreciation of the administrative architecture along the Trans-Siberian Railway
IN THE WINTER OF 2010 we traveled the length of the Trans-Siberian Railway, beginning in Moscow and ending in Beijing. The route from the Kremlin and Red Square to the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square roughly follows the trajectory of czarist forces as they brought...
Russia Detains 150 Anti-Government Protesters In... →
Cosmonaut crashed into Earth "crying in rage" →
