An Isolated People in Russia

© Raffaele Petralla

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 ...

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