#RUSSIAN EMPIRE

[diemelusine]

Portrait of a woman reading (1881) by Ivan Kramskoi. Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

[sovietpostcards]

"Peoples of Russian Northern areas" by Ivan Bilibin (1905)

[crazykotyara12]

The Struggle

[xoheisse]

the saying "ignorance is bliss" was right because what the fuck is this

[gqqsamya]

Russian Miku (challenge from twitter)

Miku in Yeniseysk Governorate XIX - XX festive attire. Peasants wore their solemn clothes for photos.

Miku waiting for bus in -30 Celcius

School girl Miku

[justacynicalromantic]

Russian civilians in Belgorod obediently waiting in a traffic jam until their army's BM-21 artillery system is done launching missiles at the neighboring country, right in the middle of the road.

🤷‍♂️

[plausible-fabulist]

So... have I mentioned I'm about to release a 450,000-word Jewish historical fantasy interactive fiction game? Here's an interview I did with my publisher, Choice of Games, about it.

[nadziejacher]

Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

@nadziejaestel

[grainelevator]

Kryzhitsky, Konstantin Yakovlevich. (1901). Evening on the Ukraine. [oil on canvas].

[galakteon]

don’t you hate it when you accidentally draw someone you can’t stand

[illustratus]

The Room of Cameos by Eduard Hau

[bobemajses]

Jews in the Russian Empire, late 19th century

[sovietpostcards]

Bibliophile cat. Souvenir insert from a box of chocolates (Russia, 1900s).

[crazykotyara12]

She was so real for this

[xoheisse]

this is what Ukraine is fighting against just to exist