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Photo: Youtube screenshot10 Most Beautiful Slavic Songs Ever That You Will Never Forget
You know, it is happening, Slavs are coming together thanks to internet. Artificial and political boundaries are falling apart as Slavs unite under their glorious heritage. To accompany this pan-Slavic revival we need to fill it with some of the most beautiful (and traditional) Slavic songs that you can enjoy anywhere on a lovely Saturday night. We […]
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Photo: Vitaly Sokolovsky via FlickrPhotographer Vitaly Sokolovsky Captures Professional Ballet Dancers On The Streets Of Saint-Petersburg
St.Petersburg, Russia – These days Russian had an opportunity to see a very unusual ballerina activity across Saint Petersburg, most didn’t mind it at all of course. It was a project “Dancing Petersburg” and it consisted of dance acts from various genres from traditional Russian ballerinas to ethnic dancers all showing their contemporary trends. This dancing […]
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Photo: Lug Velesa / FacebookOn the Path of Slavic Heritage through interesting Cartoon episodes
One year ago members of Serbian rodnovery community Lug Velesa (Српска родноверна жупа „Луг Велеса”) started a series named Stazom slovenskog nasleđa – “On the path of Slavic heritage”. These are short animated and educational videos about deities, beings, customs and myths of Slavic people. We must note that many images and animations are their […]
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Photo © Škoda / skoda-auto.com7 things Slovaks really miss the most about socialist times and communism
We all have heard it a zillion times – in the past, everything was better! The grass was greener, sky bluer, food tasted better and people smiled at each other all the time. Well, we´re just humans and it seems like a crucial part of human nature to forget the worst and remember everything somehow […]
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Photo: Margarita Kareva / InstagramRussian Photographer Brings Slavic Fairytales To Life As You Never Seen Them Before
Russia – Once again Margarita Kareva surpises us with magnificent photography pieces she makes on a constant basis. She has sucesfully turned her hobby, photography, into a real profession and as you will see, it is just amazing. She has merged her love for reading fantasy books and her passion for photography into one surreal realm […]
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Perun Slavic god of thunder / Photo: pinterestThe Oak tree worship in Slavic culture and its practice today
The ancient Ants had the utmost respect toward the Oak tree. That is visible even today because many traditional rituals have incorporated something connected to this tree. For Slavs, this tree was a symbol of Gods, and it was believed that Oak like all the trees has a soul and that it represents the life […]
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Photo: Petar Milošević via WikimediaTrans-Siberian Railway: History and Interesting Facts About This Famous Railroad
Russia – More than 120 years ago, in Vladivostok began construction of the Trans-Siberian railway. This railroad connects the 2 parts of the world, as many as 12 districts and 87 cities, and it is 9288.2 kilometers long. Trans-Siberian railway is one of the oldest railways in Russia, and the construction of its main section between […]
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Photo: Alexander Ruzhechka via onliner.byA Family In Belarus Lives In A Very Small And Tiny Awesome House
Belarus – Imagine living in a cubicle? Okey besides your daily office cubicle! Imagine your home is a mini cube! Now many would think that is impossible, but a family from Belarus finds it very comfortable and they enjoy their mini house they built themselves. Three members of this family have to manage their daily life […]
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Derbent / Photo: Petrus Schenck via wikimediaThe ancient cities in today’s Slavic countries you didn’t know about
Ancient history – There are numerous ancient cities in today’s Slavic territories. Even though the Slavic tribes at times started populating the areas of today’s Slavic cities at a later date, it is important to mention some of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities with rich history in the present-day Slavic lands that managed to survive and support a variety […]
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Macedonian Dynasty: The Golden Age of Byzantine Empire
Expanding the borders of Empire as never before, rulers of Macedonian Dynasty brought Byzantine fame, influence and strength, but also started a cultural and artistic renaissance, known as Macedonian Renaissance. Occasionally broken by usurpers, members of the Dynasty always found their way back to the throne; Macedonian Dynasty is one of few that were never […]
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Slavpool / Photo: 2d HereIf Famous Movies Were Made In Eastern Europe They’d Look Like This
Eastern Europe – “What would it be if our fantasies were all real?” was a Russian art project called 2D Among Us writes. This is a internet project for fun and the goal was to place all the famous movie characters in different alternative surrounding in Eastern Europe (Russia mostly truth to be told). So […]
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Photo: Mariusz Cieszewski via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)Zalipie – Little Polish Village Boasts Of Being Completely Covered In Colorful Flowers
Zalipie , Poland – In the old times, in this small Polish village named “Zalipie”, people used to paint flowers on their ceiling to hide all the soot marks that were caused by their stove. One has to bear in mind these were old wooden houses, ventilation was pretty poor back in those times, so soot […]
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Godfather / Photo: Unsplash via Pixabay.comThe Godfather – Probably The Most Respected Person In Slavic Culture
One of the highest honours in the Slavic tradition, and most respected things is to be someone’s Godfather or as the Slavic people say KUM. The first thing that you should realise apart from above mentioned, is that Godfather or Kum in Slavic tradition is not the same thing like in the Western countries. We […]
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Photo: qbot.proPhotographer Lightpainted The Polish Tatra Mountains And Made Them Even More Beautiful
Poland – You can humbly enjoy the open night sky in the last set of photographs taken in the Tatra Mountains. This beautiful project lasted three months, during this time, the photographer ‘Q’bot Q’botcenko’ visited the Tatra National Park several times to achieve the best results. He was completely dependent on weather conditions and moon phases […]
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St.Petersburg eagle / Photo: George Shuklin / wikimediaThe Influence of Byzantium: Origin of Two-Headed Eagle in Coat of Arms
Heraldry is a knowledge about coat of arms, and it has its origins from the 11th century. This knowledge has its own rules and most of them are general and universal. Every coat of arms has to be completely unique, and two similar coats of arms need to have some differences. Also, one person or […]
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source: Bartek Gatz / Facebook5 Polish inventions that revolutionized the world and you didn’t notice it
Poland – It is possible that you have a hairstyle invented by Polish, you take supplements made by the researcher from Poland. If you think that it will be another article about the great discovery by Maria Curie, who we owe RAD and POLON, you are wrong. Today we present something that will thrill and […]
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High Tatras / Photo: Viktoria Andruchova5 Reasons That Will Persuade You To Visit Slovakia For Your Next Trip
Slovakia – Small green parliamentary republic hidden in the heart of central Europe, most of the time being accidentally mixed with Slovenia (which is just as nice) because of similar names. It is a landlocked country, but it is landlocked in green and mountainous beauty. It was a part of the east block and finally […]
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Photo: wikimedia5 Slavic spies with lives wilder than a spy movie
Top secret missions, double lives, constant danger of being uncovered – living a life of a professional spy is the closest you can get to living a real-life action movie. These are 5 Slavic men and women who made the headlines for being secret sources of information behind some of the most complicated international affairs […]
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Image credits: RGORussians Created A Glass Beach As Ocean Turned Their Vodka and Beer Bottles Into Colorful Glass “Marbles”
Ussuri Bay was once a USSR-era dumping ground for old used glass that was created in the Soviet mega-country. If you wonder where Ussuri Bay is, well it is near Vladivostok the Russia’s Far Eastern Capital. What once was a area that everyone seen as polluted due to dumping ground mark, it was avoided by tourists […]
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Source: Vitaliy Zubchevskiy / InstagramBeautiful Redheads of Ukrainiane Photoshoot By Vitaliy Zubchevskiy
Ukraine – While the Czechs have already covered this topic successfully, now thanks to Vitaliy Zubchevskiy, a self-taught photographer we can see a amazing photo-shoot based around hair color. This photography master is based in Kiev, Ukraine and it’s also a place where he gathered Ukrainian redheads to portrait them in his work. After this he […]
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Source: vintag.esCars That East Block Automobile Industry Made From The 1950s to ’80s
USSR – To have a nice car that everybody can afford was the main goal of USSR ideology. Just like German WW2 era “VolksWagen” (peoples car) the Eastern Block also had a great number of peoples cars. The automotive industry in Soviet Union had a early start back in the 1929 and it maintained it […]
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Hermitage Museum / Source: www.pinterest.comHermitage Museum Tour: Cradle of Russian culture and history
Widely acclaimed as one of the most beautiful and elaborate museums in history, Hermitage has gone a long way from being a home of the Russian Emperors to housing priceless collections of world-renowned art and approximately 60 cats. Spanning across 233 345 square meters, Hermitage today is known to be a hotspot for art enthusiasts and […]
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Photo: InstagramSlavic Beauty: Hot Slavic Celebrities on Instagram You Should Follow
Slavic Celebrities – It is considered that you do not have to be naked to get famous on Instagram, but in reality most of the time it is opposite and that won’t hurt to succeed on Instagram. There is basically millions of people that expose themselves on this social network and try to hit the jackpot […]
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Photo: Rainier WeberArtist Designs Unique Gold-Plated AK47 Chair From Real Rifles
Rainier Weber is an artist based in Austria, but he was very inspired after reading a book about famous Michail Kalashnikov. After the short inspiration ideas just started to come and he ended combining his design, technology and functionality design skills with a cheeky pimp-looking gold AK-47 rifles for that extra layer of Slavic S.W.A.G. So […]