mysticism

There’s something incredibly exciting about hearing a masterful musician create masterful music. For me it’s a feeling of joy that makes my chest expand and pulls my cheeks into a wide smile like they’re on puppet wire. Such was my first…

The 19th century was a time of turmoil in Europe, as the fallout from the shock of the French Revolution and the realization that real social change was possible continued to reverberate through the continent. Many people responded to this…

Grigori Rasputin, the man who would be labelled by history as the dark genius at the heart of the Russian court, was born a simple peasant in the West Siberian plain in 1869. In another country his family would have been considered…

It seems ironic that one of the most fearsome of the White Russian generals was very nearly an Austrian officer, for there is much in common between Ungern von Sternberg and a certain Austrian corporal who fought on the opposite side of…