Flowers enveloped in flames. Love Letters Photo Series by Jiang Zhi

Flowers of life and other flowers in the paintings of Donald Zolan (Donald Zolan)

American artist Donald Zolan can be called one of the kindest, most positive and sensual contemporary painters. After all, such pictures that come out from under his brush can only be created by a very sensitive person with a large and loving heart. Interestingly, he himself has children?

Citrus Flowers and Strawberry Flames: Oil Painting by Dennis Voitkevich

Dennis Wojtkiewicz's oil painting takes a special look at familiar fruit. The American artist from Ohio knows how to portray them in such a way that the viewer will salivate, especially at the sight of sour citrus fruits. Transparent slices performed by the master of oil painting are more like petals of outlandish flowers. Strawberries in Dennis Voitkevich's paintings do radiate light: they shouldn't emit it, because in its core there is a white candle flame, and the villi look like thin rays. So in

Novgorod birch bark letters - letters that came after 600 years

Modern man is interested in how his ancestors lived many centuries ago: what did they think about, what was their relationship, what did they wear, what did they eat, what did they strive for? And the annals report only about wars, the construction of new temples, the death of princes, the election of bishops, solar eclipses and epidemics. And here birch bark letters come to the rescue, which historians consider the most mysterious phenomenon in Russian history

Exploded Flowers in the Exploding Flowers Photo Series by Qi Wei

From the famous nursery rhyme about the gray goat, we know that the gray wolves attacked him, and "the horns and legs remained from the goat." Although the grandmother loved the goat very much … And the Chinese photographer Qi Wei shows us what will remain of beautiful, delicate, graceful flowers, if you take them apart, leave "horns and legs" - petals in one direction, the middle - to the other … A series of photographs of "blown up" - torn flowers is called - Exploding Flowers

Two sons of the first president of Taiwan: Wehrmacht officer Jiang Weiguo and Uralmash officer Jiang Jingguo

Chiang Kai-shek, a Chinese politician of the first half of the 20th century, had two sons. They were completely different, and after that, at the behest of their father, both went to study in other countries. The elder went to Moscow, the younger to Munich. Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Chingguo lived in countries with different political foundations and exactly opposite ideologies. One denied his father, the other was always obedient to him. But that didn’t put them on opposite sides of the barricades