Nicholas Roerich, Russian Easter

[porphyry]

I stumbled across this in the course of my researches tonight:





There is something about Slavism that is becoming increasingly attractive to me.

Comments

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't mean Orthodox Christianity, but some rustic quality of Slav tradition (pure Romantic fantasy, of course).

(http://picasaweb.google.com/Anebo10/Varia/photo#5131582052976095330)

(http://picasaweb.google.com/Anebo10/Varia/photo#5131582065860997234)

I always imagined that Modern Greece must be a horrible little place, for some reason.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

That second picture looks like something out of an Asterix book.