A blaze on June 15 amid Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine is the latest war wound inflicted on Kyiv's centuries-old ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky devised a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography. His vision of photography as a form ...

MAJK, Hungary — In his recent autobiographical novel "Celestial Harmonies," the Hungarian author Peter Esterhazy described how, as a boy, he used to play at being a member of the Camaldoli monastic ...

One of the most picturesque cities on the Golden Ring, Pereslavl-Zalessky offers visitors a number of historic buildings to explore. Photographs by William Brumfield The ancient path northeast of ...

KYIV, June 15 (Reuters) - The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a symbol of Ukrainian spiritual and cultural history whose ...

UDABNO, Georgia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Standing near an ancient monastery perched on a rocky ridge in southeast Georgia, armed border guards keep a watchful eye over tourists visiting the site ...

High in the Spiti Valley, the 1000-year-old Key Monastery stands as a beacon of Buddhist culture. This fortified monastery, a religious training center for lamas, has withstood invasions and fires.