MiGs, Stars & Magic Books: A Brief History of Trespassing in Moscow
An illustrated guide to urban exploration in the Russian capital.
EX
A prefix meaning out of, from, or indicating a former title or status.
UTOPIA
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. Literally: No-Place.
EX UTOPIA is a website about wild, improbable, repurposed, haunted, frozen, contested, and disappearing places. Since 2011, it has been sharing long-form essays and photography from all manner of under- and un-reported places around the world: from ancient ritual sites to otherworldly architecture; to ghost towns, nuclear bunkers and breakaway republics.
EX UTOPIA is fascinated by the history, politics and folklore of extraordinary places, by the people who live in them, and by the stories those people can tell. It is run by Darmon Richter, and up until November 2020 it was called The Bohemian Blog.
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An illustrated guide to urban exploration in the Russian capital.
Poltergeists, ritual murder & a live-in succubus – the 1000-year-old pub with a ghostly reputation
A month-long monument hunt, and what I learned along the way.