Dmitry Ermakov

Those people are Russians, but they are not Russians. There’s four million of them in Russia, but they are seldom talked about. They speak different languages, but they are united by simple everyday wisdom and the kinship with earth. As if they stem from the earth – like stones and trees.  They are pagans – or, having converted to Christianity or Islam, they are still pagans without fully realising it. Their world is different, full...