One City, Many Stories: The Interwar Art of Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne
In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish controlContinue Reading →
Borderland Complexities: Photos of the Baltics' Eastern Edges
The project Baltic Borders, led by photographer and videographer Sami Siva, results from a period of fieldwork in 2021 and 2022 along the eastern borders of Estonia and Latvia. The…Continue Reading →
“All Is Lost. I Am Chased by English”: How Estonia Got a Navy
In 1918, the Baltic was ablaze with a range of conflicting polities. All along the littoral, a plethora of factions staged a bloody and vicious conflict for control of the…Continue Reading →
Words Lost in the Forest: The Strange Case of "Pagan Dialects from Narew"
A chance discovery deep in a Belarusian forest gave a glimpse into the extinct Baltic language YotvingianContinue Reading →
Holy Cats and Salted Mushrooms – ’90s Life on the Latvian-Russian Border
"I realise just now that this story about the sleigh in the winter could have happened in the 19th century as well as the 20th, and for some perhaps it…Continue Reading →