Month: July 2010

Evangelical Protestant Baptism I, Al’shany 2010/Эвангельскае хрышчэньне I, Альшаны 2010 год Evangelical Protestantism has had a quiet, reverent, enduring presence in the Central Pripet region for a century.  On July 4 a great multitude from the Al’shany area of Polesia gathered to witness the total-immersion baptism of more than 90 people. This baptism ceremony occurs… Continue reading Photos of the Day for July 21, 2010

The Cross II/Крыж (частка ІI) One of the most evocative sights in Belarus is the cross, placed at a village crossroad or along the road in the countryside.  I have been inspired to photograph crosses in great part by the timeless ethnographic-photographic study “Беларускія народныя Крыжы” (“Belarusan Folk Crosses”) of Mikhas’ Ramanjuk (1944-1997), published by… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 20, 2010: The Cross II

The Bench III/Лаўка (частка ІII) What can seem more prosaic than the plain wooden bench in front of almost every village house in Belarus?  And yet the bench is the pivot of social life, the village agora, the permanent observation post.  The bench is the witness to the changing fortunes of the village and at… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 19, 2010: The Bench III

Keeping watch, Jatsuki 2010/Сталы пост, Яцукі 2010 As with so many other villages in the Vitebsk Region of Northern Belarus, Jatsuki has lost much of its population to urban migration.  However, favored by its position on a bluff over the Dzvina River, Jatsuki is seeing more and more city families buying old houses or building… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 18, 2010

Khrys’tsibalavichy 2010/Хрысьцібалавічы 2010 год

Feast of Trinity (name-day feast of the church of the Holy Trinity), Azdamichy 2010/Тройца (сьвяток царквы Сьв. Тройцы), Аздамічы 2010 год The parish of Azdamichy-Tsjerablichy holds its annual name-day church festival on the third day of Trinity, May 25 in 2010.

Feast of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy 2010/Тройца, Аздамічы 2010 год The Orthodox parish church of the Holy Trinity in Azdamichy (Central Pripet Marshes) celebrates its feast day on the Tuesday after Trinity Sunday, in 2010 on May 25.  Прыход у Аздамічах (Сярэдняя Прыпяць) сьвяткуе свой сьвяток на трэцім дні Тройцы, сёлета 25-а траўня.

Near Dzjarzhynsk 2010/Ля Дзяржынску 2010 год

Tsjerablichy 2010/Цераблічы 2010 год

Awaiting guests, Vjeras’nitsa 2010/”Выстроіліса ды сядзімо”, Верасьніца 2010 год