Month: May 2011

Interior Light VII.  Інтэр’ернае асьвятленьне (частка VII). There is something deeply comforting in the natural light that suffuses a Belarusian home.  This is a light as ineffable and timeless as it is bound to place and season. Сонечнае сьвятло напаўняе беларускі дом і робіць яго невымоўна ўтульным.   Гэтае сьвятло й няўлоўнае, і вечнае, і… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 11, 2011: Interior Light VII

Women of Polesia XXXII.  Паляшучкі (частка ХХХII). Azdamichy 2010.  Аздамічы 2010 год.

Churches of Belarus IV:  Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Zaslauje 2011.  Касьцёлы Беларусі (частка IV): касьцёл Найсьвяцейшай Панны Марыі, Заслаўе 2011 год.

Portraits of Belarus XXI.  Партрэты Беларусі (частка XXI). Sixty-eight-year-old Sigismund is the youngest person left in Savichy in north-eastern Bjares’tsje (Brest) Region.  Savichy 2011. Спадар Сігізмунд, Савічы 2011 год.

Portraits of Belarus XX:  Early Morning After Late-March Snowfall.  Партрэты Беларусі (частка XX): Ураньні пасьля сьнегападу на прыканцы сакавіка. It’s 6:00 a.m. on a late-March Saturday and Halina has already swept her front walk.  А 6-ай гадзіне ўраньні спадарыня Галіна ўжо замятала сьнег з ходніка. Tsjerablichy 2011.  Цераблічы 2011 год.

To commemorate Orthodox St. George’s Day.  З нагоды Юр’я. Villages traditionally celebrated Orthodox St. George’s Day (May 6) by leading the cows in procession to the pastures to mark the official beginning of the grazing season, followed by songs and blessings at the village crosses and in front of villagers’ houses.  Today one is exceptionally… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 6, 2011: Orthodox St. George’s Day / Юр’е

Christening in Church VI.  Хрышчэньне ў царкве (частка VI). Triple Christening, Al’homjel’ (Ohljamjel’) 2011.  The priest of the Orthodox Church of Mary Magdalene arranged to christen three families’ newborns — Jaroslav, Cyril and Sofia — at the same time.  Here Vjera and her godson Cyril share a moment between the application of baptismal oil and… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 5, 2011: Christening in Church VI / Хрышчэньне ў царкве VI

Women of Polesia XXXI.  Паляшучкі (частка ХХХІ). Granny Vul’ljana with her younger daughter Katsjaryna and granddaughters Tats’tsjana (left) and Khrys’tsina (right).  Both granddaughters are wearing family-heirloom traditional dress. Бабулечка Вульляна з малодшай дачкой Кацярынай і ўнучкамі Тацьцянай (злева) і Хрысьцінай (зправа). Tsjerablichy 2011.  Цераблічы 2011 год.

To commemorate the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s Constitution of May 3, 1791. In reaction to this democratic document, Europe’s first modern national constitution, the Russian Empire launched a war which led to the second, and then the third partition of Poland.  Tadeusz Kosciuszko (Tadevush Kas’tsjushka in Belarusan), a scion of a noble Belarusan family and a man… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 3, 2011

Feast of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy 2008.  Сьвяток царквы Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2008 год.