brave old world

The birth year 1950 on Putin’s symbolic gravestone in Tbilisi opens the door to a curious Georgian legend: that Putin was raised in the Georgian village of Metekhi

In front of the museum, next to Stalin’s former house and the empty pedestal of his monumental statue, a small group of hardcore fans stands excitedly with flags and flowers, ready to celebrate

For the Georgians, Prince Konstantin’s unexpected return home was also seen as the sudden revival of national pride and ancient royal dignity, which contemporaries called a “spiritual coronation”

At first glance, the sheer number of crucifixes and corpus figures can feel almost overwhelming. But if you walk around for a while and start paying attention to the details, a rather distinctive aesthetic begins to emerge

Hanns Tschira accompanied the refugees from the Silesian German village of Lübchen throughout their five-week odyssey and documented it in around 140 photographs

Military cemeteries are documents of grand history, colored pins on a general’s map

We leave feeling very happy about what we had seen. We came to witness decay – and instead, we found life

The spectre of communism still haunts Tirana—today not through ideology, but in the form of wandering statues with no place to call home

As comical as it was to build a Gothic cathedral in Biniamar, just as banal and farcical was the reason for its failure