Entrance to a Russian monastery, fresco of saints and mendicants

Close-up of a ten dollar bill

Signs & Symbols - line art The spiral, from Russia through Scandinavia into Northern Europe thence into the Mediterranean world, Troy, Egypt and Asia Minor. A spiral is a curve that unwinds around a point and in the process extends further from that p

Signs & Symbols - line art The spiral, from Russia through Scandinavia into Northern Europe thence into the Mediterranean world, Troy, Egypt and Asia Minor. A spiral is a curve that unwinds around a point and in the process extends further from that p

Signs & Symbols - line art The spiral, from Russia through Scandinavia into Northern Europe thence into the Mediterranean world, Troy, Egypt and Asia Minor. A spiral is a curve that unwinds around a point and in the process extends further from that p

Signs & Symbols - line art The spiral, from Russia through Scandinavia into Northern Europe thence into the Mediterranean world, Troy, Egypt and Asia Minor. A spiral is a curve that unwinds around a point and in the process extends further from that p

Signs & Symbols - line art Reindeer with shaman wearing a wolf`s head mask and beating a drum. Russia. Shaman comes from the Tunguso-Manchurian "saman" - "he who knows". In most cultures the shaman`s principle function was healing as sickness was se

Alexander I Of Russia, 1777 €