Russian traditional interiors discovered in the provinces

The series is named after the real Russian town of Mtsensk in the Oryol region (311 km south-west of Moscow), the location of the mythical world created by Russian author Nikolai Leskov.

She captured the interiors of the mythical town of Mtsensk.

“For me the provinces represent a hidden image, as exemplified by the interiors of southern Russia,” says photographer Anastasia Tsayder.

The timeless objects in the photos are uprooted from their usual locale and moved to a mythical town called Mtsensk.

In the novel Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1864), the author tells the story of the terrible atrocities committed by Katerina Izmailova, the wife of a merchant.

The authentic interiors in the photos impart a sense of unreality.

Inhabitants of Russian cities are surrounded by interiors from the previous century and the photos depict the past.

She kills three people, evoking Shakespeare’s tragedy in a rural Russian setting.

As a result, the places depicted in the illustrations represent a town that is half fiction, half real.