In Russia, omens have been given special importance since ancient times. They were used to judge the weather, when to sow and ...

ARKHANGELSK, June 23. /TASS/. The Arctic Team summer expedition, featuring students from various universities, began on the Solovetsky Islands, press service of the Arkhangelsk Region administration ...

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers the sites and history of one of the most notable religious ensembles in the Russian north. Kirillov. St. Kirill Belozersk Monastery, south ...

EAGLE HARBOR — His day begins in the dead of night, in solitude and darkness. Father Basil is the first monk out of bed at the monastery, usually by 3 in the morning, so early the only ones awake are ...

The Assumption Cathedral is located in the town-island of Sviyazhsk and is part of the monastery of the same name. Situated at the confluence of the Volga, the Sviyaga and the Shchuka rivers, at the ...

Founded in 1106 in the west of Georgia, the Monastery of Gelati is a masterpiece of the Golden Age of medieval Georgia, a period of political strength and economic growth between the 11th and 13th ...

Russian scientists have reconstructed the history of the formation of the Solovetsky Archipelago over the past ten thousand years. The study showed how the territory changed from the departure of the ...

This extremely powerful neurotoxin is secreted by a frog native to Ecuador. Although Western scientists discovered it in the 19th century, it wasn't synthesized until the 1990s. The neurotoxin appears ...

The Monastery of the Philosopher in Arcadia, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is steeped in Greek history. Located on the west side of the gorge of River Lousios, 11 km (7 miles) south ...