Spaso-Kamenny Monastery

The Spaso-Kamenny Monastery is located in a small island in the middle of Kubensky Lake, in Ust-Kubinsky District of Vologda Oblast, about 500 kilometers north of Moscow. It is distinguished as the first stone monastery of the Russian North.

The Island Town of Sviyazhsk

When Ivan the Terrible, the Grand Prince of Moscow and the first Tsar of Russia, ascended the throne in the middle of the 16th century, he decided to put an end to the Khanate of Kazan, a medieval Bulgarian-Tatar Turkic state occupying the territory of former Volga Bulgaria, and ruled by the descendants of Genghis Khan.

When Nature Meets Architecture

The precise moment when nature and architecture meet is an interesting topic for a photographer. As a junction between two different universes and a meeting between two visual worlds, it can lead to the creation of photographical series such as Mergers and Acquisitions by the Ukranian artist Maximus Chatsky, in which creepers seem to be invading the urban territory.

Umbrella Territory, Camaiore, Tuscany