Дагестанские девушки провожают закат над покинутым аулом

You will ache for slow beauty to save you from your quick, quick life.

Crows in the Snow by Takahashi Biho (Early 20th Century)

Alanian necropolis outside the village of Dargavs, called “City of the dead”. It comprises 99 different tombs and crypts. This is a necropolis of the XIV-XVIII centuries, grandiose in its scale and significance. By the way the tomb is arranged, you can understand how rich this or that clan was, to which it belongs. According to one of the versions, at the turn of the 17th-19th centuries, a plague epidemic raged on the land of Ossetia, after which the Ossetians were on the verge of extinction, and some sick, with no one to bury them, would go into their family crypts and await their death.

Azerbaijani wedding, Karabakh, Shusha 1965

Ezio Anichini (1886-1948) was a Florentine artist and illustrator who had a real knack for doing images from Dante’s works on postcards. These may date from the 600th anniversary of Dante’s death in 1921.

Sultanahmet meydanı. İstanbul 1995

And Then We Danced (2019)