A devastating massacre in the forest just outside of Smolensk was kept a secret for almost fifty years. The extent of the truth was not fully acknowledged until twenty years after that. What happened in the forest was among the first of the gruesome and senseless series of murders that took place during World War … Continue reading The Katyn Massacre →
Take a close look at the image below. What do you see? …Any chance you thought the photograph resembled this man? What you have been looking at is a close-up of one of the most famous statues in all of Russia, The Worker and the Kolkhoz Woman, which was created in the year 1937 by … Continue reading The Worker and the Kolkhoz Woman →
So shocking was the imprisonment and conviction of Patriarch Tikhon, that it made this edition of TIME magazine in 1923. Patriarch Tikhon, who was “unfrocked” of his title to simply that of Comrade André Bélavin, was, according to the article, “judged without a hearing” and convicted of counterrevolutionary acts. The article mentioned further that the … Continue reading The Life and TIMEs of Patriarch Tikhon →
https://www.wdl.org/en/item/5808/#q=stork&qla=en This photograph, Айст «Этюд в Бухаре» or Stork “A Scene in Bukhara”, was taken by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii in the year 1911, a time when the Russian Empire was continuing to exert influence and expand east, especially into Central Asia. Traveling throughout Russia and equipped with a railroad car that functioned as a dark … Continue reading A Bird’s Eye View of Bukhara →
