An unusually beautiful piece of travel advertisement. With its clichés…yeah…but making use of the poetic vocabulary and thematics of the region and beautiful images. Some shots are like from a Paradzhanov film.
Azerbaijan, and the Caucasus generally, are high on my list of “next-place-to-go” but this ad pushed it up a notch — this ad and a night in Moscow last summer that it would be tacky to tell you about…
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Tags: Azerbaijan, Baku, Circassians, Moscow, Oliver Bullough's "Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus", Sergei Paradzhanov
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