Month: September 2014

Churches of Belarus (part LXXII):  Roman Catholic church of the Holy Trinity (1903), Hjervjaty 2014.  Касьцёлы Беларусі (частка LXXII):  касьцёл Сьвятой Тройцы (1903 г.), Гервяты 2014 г. The splendid neo-Gothic church of the Holy Trinity in Hjervjaty has one of the tallest spires in Belarus.  One immediately feels the intense devotion of this Roman Catholic… Continue reading Photo of the Day for September 9, 2014

In honor of the five-hundredth anniversary of the victory near Orsha (Vorsha) of the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania over Muscovy, September 8, 1514. З нагоды 500-годдзя Аршанскай бітвы й перамогі ВКЛ над Маскоўем, 8 верасьня 1514 г. Near Orsha (Vorsha) 2006.  Пад Воршай 2006 г.

Landscapes of Valozhyn District:  view from castle hill, Losk 2014.  Ландшафты Валожыншчыны:  від з замчышча, Лоск 2014 г.

Landscapes of Valozhyn District:  Near Harodz’ki 2014.  Ландшафты Валожыншчыны:  пад Гародзькамі 2014 г. Most traffic rushes along the Mjensk-Vilnius highway to the west of here or the Mjensk-Smarhon’ highway to the east; the secondary road passing through Harodz’ki on the way to Losk is thus a tranquil route ideally suited to a slow late-afternoon excursion.

Landscapes of Valozhyn District:  Near Suhvazdy 2014.  Ландшафты Валожыншчыны:  пад Сугваздамі 2014 г. Late spring and early summer evenings are an ideal time to wander slowly through the Belarusian countryside and to breathe the evanescent light.

Mats’vjej and the calf, Tsjerablichy 2014.  Мацьвей і цялятко, Цераблічы 2014 г. It’s not easy to remember that Mats’vjej, almost as tall, and weighing almost as much, as his seven-year-old-sister Chesa and as adventurous and curious as Chesa and their older brother Jahor, is only three-and-a-half.  In fact Mats’vjej has grown so quickly that friends… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 4, 2014

Landscapes of Polesia:  Vjeljamichy on an early summer eve 2014.  Палескія ландшафты:  летні вечар у Велямічах 2014.

Belarus in Faces (part CXLI):  Mrs. Hanna Slutskaja, Vjeljamichy 2008 and 2014.  Беларусь у тварах (частка CXLI):  спадарыня Ганна, Велямічы 2008 і 2014 гг. In 2008, after attending the church service for Radaunitsa (remembrance day for forefathers, usually celebrated on the ninth day after Easter) in the central Polesian village of Vjeljamichy, I gave Mrs.… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 2, 2014

Churches of Belarus (part LXXI):  Orthodox church of the Prophet Elijah, Vjeljamichy.  Цэрквы Беларусі (частка LXXI):  царква Сьв. прарока Ільлі, Велямічы. It is unfathomable why anyone would wish to substitute glitzy, pseudo-Russian onion domes — a shape alien to the rich architectural tradition of wooden church architecture in Polesia — for the Veljamichy church’s graceful… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 1, 2014