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The Legend of Lake Parvana (1970)

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)

Carpet market. Derbent. 1981

Derbent is one of the oldest cities of the world. It is believed to be 5, 000 years old. Carpets are hanging on wall of Derbent Fortress. The Fortifications of Derbent (also transcribed as Darband) are one of the fortified defense lines built by the Persian Sasanian Empire to protect the eastern passage of the Caucasus Mountains (the "Caspian Gates") against the attacks of the nomadic peoples of the Pontic–Caspian steppe.

Ilya Nikolaevich Zankovsky “Encampment”

Kabardinka dance

Old photographs of Jewish women

1. Georgia, 2. Moscow, Russia; 3. Istanbul, Turkey; 4. Sarajevo, Bosnia; 5. Dagestan; 6. Alytus, Lithuania; 7. Beirut, Lebanon; 8. Morocco; 9. Vitebsk, Belarus

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.

Syreny, 1900

Wilhelm Kotarbiński

The son of Stone ( The legend of The Sosrykwa)

Sultanahmet meydanı. İstanbul 1995

The Motorcycle Diaries (2002)

Persian wool rugs

Azerbaijani wedding, Karabakh, Shusha 1965

Au harem, 1905 by Henri Adrien Tanoux (French, 1865–1923)

UEHARA Konen（上原古年 Japanese, 1878-1940）

Waves   波濤図  1900-1920  woodcut print    via

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↳ And Then We Danced (2019)

You know… Georgian dance is based on masculinity. The Kintouri and the Adjarian routines were softer originally. But we changed it, 50 years ago. There is no room for weakness in Georgian dance.

Abadzekh warrior song. Abadzekh or Abzakh are a sub-ethnic group of Circassian people, indigenous to the North Caucasus region, who fought against the Russian empire during its conquest of the Caucasus and specifically the Russo-Circassian war. Numerous battles ended up with Russia’s victory and the Circassian genocide.

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Circassian women in their traditional attire

Demon and Angel (1832-1883) by Gustave Doré.

Illustration from James Branch Cabell ’s’ Jurgen ‘by Ray Frederick Coyle, 1919

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.

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

And Then We Danced (2019)

21st of May is Circassian genocide remembrance day, the day of mourning. on the 21st of May 1864 was the last battle between the Russian army and Circassians in Kbaada, nowadays called Krasnaya Polyana (which Russians had turned into a resort). Circassians were killed and deported from Russia to the Ottoman Empire, some tribes were eradicated completely, namely the Ubykhs, the natives of Sochi. every year there is a procession and events dedicated to commemorate the victims in every Circassian republic: in Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Circassia.

This year the officials in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, banned the procession. I wonder why... :)

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

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