Spirits of the Old World

When I was a child, my great-grandmother used to tell me stories before bed. I listened carefully and truly believed every word she said. She told me about Kikimora, who lived behind our stove and watched us through the cracks in the wall; Leshy, who led travelers deep into the forest; and Baba Yaga, who flew through the sky in a mortar and lived in a hut on chicken legs. Some of these stories were strange and unsettling, but I was never afraid - only fascinated.

This project explores these stories with innocence and trust, free from the boundaries between myth and reality. I present these figures from Russian folklore not as monsters, but as archetypes, keepers of memory, intuition, fear, and ancestral wisdom passed down through generations.