Native Aliens
Tatiana Plotnikova
Kristina is teaching her nephew Porphyry to read Church-Slavonic scriptures at the community school
Maritime region, Russia. 2013
RUSSIAN OLD BELIEVERS
In 2009 three generations of the Russian Old Believers from big reunited to return to ancestral homeland in Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East, from Bolivia and Uruguay to settle down there for ever. Till the middle of 1940s a community of Old Believers lived there.
Baking bread. Agafia and her worries, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
A pie for guests. Agafia and her worries, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
Agafia. Getting ready to visit, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
Old Believers are dispersed all over the world, some of them live in Latin America and Alaska but even there they carefully preserved Russian culture and traditional way of life. Resettles are convinced they will be able to self-actualize in Russia, their historical homeland and their core source of spiritual and moral strength.
Glafira and her worries, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
After class at the community school, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
Glafira and her worries, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
Feonila and her worries, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
They lead a quiet and discrete life and do all their bet to stay away from the vanities and temptations of the outer world. Their religious books are written in the Old Slavonic language, food is all homemade. Married women are obliged to cover their head and their men have beards.
Porphyry against the backdrop of the village, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
Kristina and her worries, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
Kristina glances at her braids after her worries, Maritime region, Russia. 2013
The main characters of this story are women, who followed their husband with daughter and sons leaving behind in Latin America their relatives and the graves of ancestors.
Tatiana Plotnikova 2013
