Cool reception: the north of Russia through the lens of a foreigner

In 2014 French photographer Jean-Luc Bertini traveled to northern Russia to visit the legendary Solovki. In his beautiful photographs, he captured the local natural splendor, as well as the life of local residents living among snow, mud and the specific Solovetsky color.

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1. Solovki is an archipelago in the White Sea, located at the entrance to the Onega Bay.

2. After the closure in 1920 by the Soviet authorities of the Solovetsky Monastery, which existed here since 1436, the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp, known by the abbreviation SLON, was located in its buildings.

3. Only on October 25, 1990, the monastery was officially revived.

4. Here is how the French writer Olvier Rolen describes Solovki: “Before I could leave the small airfield behind a fence painted with blue paint, reminiscent of a train station in the American west, I was struck by the beauty of what appeared to my eyes. Above the gigantic walls marked out by squat towers with high caps of Moliere doctors, white churches raised a bush of onion domes into the sky. All around the snow mixed sea and low shore, accentuated by the dark shadow of the forest. Several ships captured by the ice. And the crows circling over it all.

5. All this natural splendor, as well as the life of local residents with its old woman crossing the snowy plain, a grocery store called "Dionysus", children who are cute, like all children, with the purest snow that covered the very roof of the Volga, eternal mud, scary block houses and a monk wandering along the monastery wall was captured in his beautiful photographs by Jean-Luc Bertini.

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