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Putin instructs the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Russian Academy of Sciences to draw up and approve a comprehensive programme of research devoted to the all-round ethnographic study of the Russian people

Putin has instructed the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, jointly with the Russian Academy of Sciences, to draw up and approve a comprehensive programme of research devoted to the all-round ethnographic study of the Russian people. The instruction is to be carried out by 1 March 2026.

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Novgorod Museum-Reserve Acquires Birch-Bark Manuscript Found in an Old Believer Settlement on the Yenisei

The Novgorod Museum-Reserve has received a manuscript on birch bark, found in an Old Believer settlement on the Yenisei. The twentieth-century manuscript contains excerpts from the “Ladder of Divine Ascent” of John Climacus. In Siberian villages, letters and books continued to be produced on birch bark right up

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A Kacha Tatar Woman: An Illustration from Academician Johann Gottlieb Georgi's "Description of All the Peoples Inhabiting the Russian State", 1799

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16 December: the Feast of the Housing Saviour

Archaeology · Observations · Mores · Ethnography

President of Finland Tarja Halonen in the historical Eura dress at the annual Independence Day reception in 2001

President of Finland Tarja Halonen in the historical Eura dress at the annual Independence Day reception in 2001. The dress is an exact reconstruction of the attire of a Viking Age woman, found in a Viking burial at Eura in western Finland. Just imagine loving your country and your people

Archive · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography

On Reindeer

Postcard. Saint Petersburg: Kyakhta Tea Merchants' Association “Jin-Long”, 1900s.

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A Nativity scene in the window of a Roman city bus displayed at the "100 Presepi" exhibition in Saint Peter's Square on Christmas Eve

Old sepia photograph of a man in a rooster costume bent over beside a wall, with a chair and branches on the left.

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Bear Games of the Mansi and Khanty in a photo with rooster and cuckoo costumes

The Theatrical Performance of the Bear Games "The Cuckoo and the Cock" in 1936. The bear games are an ancient ritual of the Mansi and Khanty peoples, devoted to the cult of the bear, a sacred animal regarded as the brother and son of the supreme deity. In

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A Scene in a Russian Village after the Manoeuvres, 1936

Faith · The East · Museums · New York · Ethnography

Costume of a Dancing Skeleton

Tibetan culture, late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Metropolitan Museum

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An Unidentified Flying Object in the Italian Sky

“The Walnut Tree of Benevento” is a picture of 1826 by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, created for a series of images of the mystical and miraculous phenomena of Italy, in which the artist documented not real events but folk legends, traditions and marvels that existed within Italian culture. The subject is

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A 17th-century English bestiary describes the Florida beast Succarath and how it was caught

In Florida, which is part of the West Indies, there dwells a beast that cannot be passed over in silence on account of its strangeness and ugliness. The natives call it Succarath, and the cannibals Su. It lives chiefly by rivers and along the seashore, and feeds on its prey.