Greetings from Azovo!

Today I visited the “Phoenix” festival in Azovo — the heart of the Azovo German National District in Omsk Region. The key event of the day was the opening of a German estate — a new exhibition space showing a traditional rural home of Russian Germans from the early last century. Inside, the interiors of the living rooms and even the animal areas have been lovingly recreated.

One of the interiors of a Siberian German’s estate

I took three thousand photographs, picked up baked goods from the cult German bakery in neighboring Alexandrovka, and stayed true to my principle — shooting right up to the very end of the event. In the end, I was the only one who got full footage of the incredible performance by the Liberty string quartet, whose concerts I now warmly recommend personally!

The full picture story is definitely coming — just not just yet :)