An Allegory Of Power, 1918

Charge of the Mamelukes at the Battle of Austerlitz by Felician Myrbach

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

Circassian(Adyghe)priest 1812-1813 Адыг. 1812-1813

from "llustrations de Les peuples de la Russie". Karl Rechberg "Народы России. Описание нравов, обычаев, костюмов и др". Карл Рехберг. Художник Емельян Корнеев

The Color of Pomegranates | Նռան գույնը (1969) dir. Sergei Parajanov

“Don’t knock on the door, you know that they’re gone”

Armenian director Sergei Parajanov posing with the XVIIIth century Deesis icon in the St. Paraskeva Church in Kosmach, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, during the filming of his fil Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1964

Kabardinka dance

Дагестанские девушки провожают закат над покинутым аулом Гамсутль. 

Dagestani girls watch the sunset over the abandoned aul [village] of Gamsutl’.

Dagestan, Russia, by Damir Faizullin (source)

Leila and Hadji Abrek (based on a poem by M. Lermontov), 1852.

A painting by Nikolai Ge (1831-1894)

Collection of the Museum of Russian Art. Kiev, Ukraine.