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There are many signs of the harsh frosts to come, but the surest is clouds that form fiery rings or even columns about the setting sun, making a kind of phantom city, or blazing pyramid-shaped rays that rise from the sun into the heavens…
There are many signs of the harsh frosts to come, but the surest is clouds that form fiery rings or even columns about the setting sun, making a kind of phantom city, or blazing pyramid-shaped rays that rise from the sun into the heavens. And when these fiery crimson
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Ethnography
The Layout of the Burial Chamber and Sarcophagi of the Rulers of Ancient Egypt: The Tomb of Tutankhamun as a Case Study
Art · Books · Mores · Ethnography
A father chooses a bride for his son in Melnikov-Pechersky’s “In the Forests”
When his son came of age to marry, he said to him: "Antipushka, it is time you fulfilled the law, and I have found you a bride. Matvey Petrovich Solodov's daughter Annushka, have you seen her?.. She will make you a proper housewife: meek, hard-working, fair
Geography · Art · Maps · Observations · Ethnography
Interactive map of folk crafts of Nizhny Novgorod Region on the Sobaka.ru website
A very charming "treasure map" of the Nizhny Novgorod Region has appeared on the Sobaka.ru website. The map shows, in interactive form, the main centres of the region's folk crafts and decorative and applied arts, and is at the same time a chronicle of Russian
Art · Science · Society · Ethnography
Soyuz-Apollo
Soyuz-Apollo. A work by Lubsan Dorzhiev (1918-2011), People's Artist of the Buryat ASSR, who painted in the folk style and for many years devoted himself to Buryat ornamentation. Soyuz-Apollo was the first international crewed space flight, and is considered to mark the end of the
Archive · Faith · Books · Ethnography
In the 1642/3 edition of Symeon Metaphrastes' "Services and Life of Nicholas the Wonderworker", a curious eighteenth-century note appears in the margin of one page:
"If things go completely badly, pray to dear little Nicholas: he will drop to his knees before Christ and beg forgiveness for you." The main thing to know about the veneration of Saint Nicholas the Pleasant in Russia.
Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography · Humour
Our museum deals with the culture and way of life of the peoples of the world, and therefore does NOT display the freaks, dwarfs, giants and other monsters who amused the grandees of the eighteenth century
The essence of Peter's cabinet of curiosities, in a few sentences on the doors of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), where the notice hung at least into the 1980s. The museum administration's message is clear enough, but one could still
Ethnography · Humour
What cutting your nails on each day of the week foretells, per an English rhyme
An old English nursery rhyme warns that cutting your nails on a Friday will bring grief and misfortune! Better make it Saturday: a Saturday manicure promises a journey. As for Sunday's nails, they will be dedicated to evil and will deliver you into the power of the unclean
NB! · Archive · Faith · Ethnography
Embroidery pattern “The Adoration of the Magi” of 1603, 150 by 117 stitches
The Adoration of the Magi. Embroidery pattern of 1603
Archive · The East · Art · Mores · Ethnography
Punishments in the Ottoman Empire of the Sixteenth Century
From Pictures of Turkish Folk Life, illustrations by Heindrich Hendrovsky
Art · Observations · Ethnography
Henri-Paul Motte depicts the druid rite of cutting mistletoe with a golden blade
The aesthetics of druid life always remind me of pictures of Ancient Rus'. Druids Cutting the Mistletoe on the Sixth Day of the Moon. Henri-Paul Motte (1846-1922) It is believed that sprigs of mistletoe were cut with a golden blade, after which cattle were offered in sacrifice