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Retaking A Village
IN 2013 YEKATERINBURG native Guzel Sanzhapova had quit her corporate job in Moscow and was looking for a good way to use her departure bonus.
The Museum Of Constructivism
Prospekt Zaborny 193 Zaporizhia, Ukraine Founded 2017
Museum Of The Shestidesyatniki
Olesia Honchara St, 33, Kiev Founded 2012.
Diaghilev Museum
Perm, ul. Sibirskaya 33 Founded 1987
Village Tales
A Quilt on the Door and Cats in the Fridge
Heir Abhorrent
ON FEBRUARY 3, 1718, Emperor Peter I issued a manifesto depriving Alexei, his son by his first wife, of the right to succeed him to the throne. Alexei, who had only just returned from Western Europe, where he had traveled in an attempt to avoid his father’s wrath, swore a solemn oath in Moscow’s Dormition Cathedral renouncing any claim to the throne in favor of his half brother Peter. One might have thought that the many years of conflict between father and son had finally been resolved, but in fact its most horrific episodes lay ahead.
Moscow In The Middle
The view from Moscow’s newest passenger railroad is not picturesque.
Rasputin
“Ra-Ra- rasputin, lover of the Russian queen” went the refrain of a song by the group Boney M., Jamaican-born singers who were all the rage in my youth. This song reflected the popular allure of rumors about the depravity that gripped the final years of the House of Romanov, including that Tsaritsa Alexandra had been involved in illicit relations with a Siberian peasant, Grishka Rasputin, who was later killed by members of the Russian nobility. “Oh, those Russians!” as the song concludes.
Sea Hunt
On Russia’s maritime border with North Korea, rangers battle poachers – both Russian and Korean
Village Tales
Sheshurino, Boy & Mishka Sparrowlegs
Tracking The Ghost Of The Mountains
TIMUR PUSTOGACHEV STOPS AND STARES AT A MOUND OF small pebble shards. In the sea of rocks that is the Altai’s Chikhacheva Ridge, and just a half-tone darker than its immediate surroundings, this spot has for some reason caught his eye.
Pyramid & Paskha
ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ST. PETERSBURG, NESTLED AMID TREES and snow, sits a church.