24 Janvier 2016
Because of their "ethnic" specificity, the Mari have been isolated and singled out by successive governments of Russia. A photographer spent some time with them trying to learn more about their way of life and culture
The Resilient Pagans of Russia - The New Yorker
When the Bolsheviks went about counting and cataloguing the ethnicities they had inherited from the Russian Empire, they identified not one but two Mari nations: the Mountain Mari, numbering about ...
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-resilient-pagans-of-russia