Photo of the Day for February 8, 2013

Women of Belarus (part XXXIX).  Паляшучкі (частка ХХХІХ). Mrs. Prosja celebrated her 95th birthday on January 14.  Many happy returns of the day!  Віншуем бабулю Просю з яе 95-ім днём народзінаў 14-а студзеня.  Яшчэ сто гадоў!

Photo of the Day for February 7, 2013

Winter Landscapes of Belarus.  Зімовыя краявіды на Капыльшчыне. By mid-afternoon a thick patch of mid-winter fog had blanketed the village of Vynja in central Belarus.  After paying our respects at the memorial to local victims of Stalinism we photographed our way slowly along the village’s main street.  The structure on the right is a village… Continue reading Photo of the Day for February 7, 2013

Photo of the Day for February 6, 2013

Winter landscapes of Belarus.  Зімовыя краявіды на Случчыне. Slutsk-Staryja Darohi Highway 2012.  Уздоўж шашы са Слуцку на Старыя Дарогі 2012 год.

Photo of the Day for February 5, 2013

Women of Polesia (part  XXXVIII).  Паляшучкі (частка  XXXVIII). Now bypassed by the main road from Stolin to Pinsk, the central Pripet village of Radchytsk maintains the quiet dignity it inherited from the branch of the great Skirmunt family which owned the village in the first half of the 19th century. Attracted by Radchytsk’s stately, domed… Continue reading Photo of the Day for February 5, 2013

Photo of the Day for February 3, 2013

Churches of Belarus (part XXIV).  Цэрквы Беларусі (частка XXIV). Orthodox church of the Dormition, Al’pjen’ 2013.  Царква Ўсьпеньня Прасьвятой Багародзіцы, Альпень 2013 год.  

Photo of the Day for February 2, 2013

To commemorate the feast of Candlemas.  З нагоды Ахвяраваньня Пана. Red Church (Church of St. Simon and St. Helena), Mjensk 2007.  Чырвоны касьцёл (Сьв. Сымона й Сьв. Алены), Менск 2007 год.

Photo of the Day for February 1, 2013

To commemorate the beginning of the Uprising of 1863-1864 in the Belarusian Lands.  З нагоды пачатку Паўстаньня 1863-1864 гадоў на беларускіх зямлях. The Uprising of 1863-1864 involved insurgents from across the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire, which, together with Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by 1795 had completed the partition and… Continue reading Photo of the Day for February 1, 2013