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Pope Francis in a bespoke anime haori, presented to him during his visit to Japan in 2019

Faith · Books · Mores · Ethnography

Elena Molokhovets's Cookbook and Its Editions Since 1861

Traditional Kulich Recipes from Elena Molokhovets's 1866 Cookbook. The book "A Gift to Young Housewives, or A Means of Reducing Household Expenses" by Elena Ivanovna Molokhovets was the most famous and influential cookery book in nineteenth-century Russia. After its first edition in 1861 it went

Church interior with an altar and Chinese-style murals, three figures in red robes on the vault and a meal scene beneath them.

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Catholic church in Taiwan decorated in Chinese style after sketches by Gresnigt

Taiwan has a Catholic church in the Chinese style, inspired by sketches by Gresnigt. The apostles at the Last Supper here eat with chopsticks, and all the saints have faces resembling those of the Chinese

A priest in purple vestments holding a palm branch leads a procession of parishioners among trees and boulders.

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Parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church in Africa celebrate Palm Sunday with palm branches

Meanwhile, Palm Sunday in Africa, with real palm branches, of the kind with which Jesus Christ was greeted at Jerusalem. This, according to a report from the Exarchate, is how African parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrate the feast.

Black-and-white photograph of a crowd on Red Square with market tents and a large bunch of balloons before the Historical Museum.

NB! · Archive · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Ethnography

Palm Sunday on Red Square in 1896 and the 1910s, with market stalls and festivities

Palm Sunday celebrations on Red Square in 1896 and in the 1910s. Trading stalls were set up on Red Square, with festive revelry and Palm Sunday sleigh rides. And today?

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Members of the Russian Doukhobor sect in Saskatchewan in 1907: the Doukhobors fled persecution at home with the sponsorship of Leo Tolstoy and other benefactors, and founded a prosperous diaspora in Canada

Map of the Black Sea region with Russian Empire districts shaded in blue by share of Greek speakers, based on 1897 figures.

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Map of the Greek-speaking population by district in the Russian Empire

An extremely interesting map of the presence of the Greek-speaking population by district in the Russian Empire. Naturally, the greatest numbers are concentrated in the Black Sea provinces

Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Ethnography · Humour

Leopold I in ceremonial dress and a gigantic headdress of white plumes, crowned with a peacock: a sign of good news

Prince Gundaker of Liechtenstein with a sail of black feathers on his head: a bad omen

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Richly embroidered leather mittens, the work of Russian craftsmen of the nineteenth century

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Barbie: Russian Beauty

NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Paris · Ethnography

On the bright spring festival of Nauryz, let us recall the exhibition of treasures from the steppes of Kazakhstan at the Musée Guimet in Paris, which is open for its last three days

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Folk sayings for Evdokia's Day and a fresco from St George's Church in Staro Nagoričane

15 March, the day of the Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia, is marked in the folk calendar as Fedot the Wind-Bringer, Fedot the Snow-Drift, Fedot of Spring, Gale-Whirlers. Evdokia never asked Fedot, and got the spring ready anyway. And he: now he tears the roof off the