Month: August 2017

Photos of the Day for August 21, 2017

Trinity Monday photo expedition through Pinsk and Stolin Districts: Polkhava, Mjasjatsichy, Vujvichy, Tyrvovichy, Sitsitsk, Plotnitsa, Rukhcha, Radchytsk, Stolin, Davyd-Haradok. Фотавандроўка ў дзень Сьвятога Духа па Пінскім і Столінскім раёнах: Полхава, Мясяцічы, Вуйвічы, Тырвовічы, Сіціцк, Плотніца, Рухча, Радчыцк, Столін, Давыд-Гарадок. Churches of Belarus (part CCXV): Orthodox church of the Prophet Elijah (1788), Vujvichy 2017. Another… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 21, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 20, 2017

Trinity Monday photo expedition through Pinsk and Stolin Districts: Polkhava, Mjasjatsichy, Vujvichy, Tyrvovichy, Sitsitsk, Plotnitsa, Rukhcha, Radchytsk, Stolin, Davyd-Haradok. Фотавандроўка ў дзень Сьвятога Духа па Пінскім і Столінскім раёнах: Полхава, Мясяцічы, Вуйвічы, Тырвовічы, Сіціцк, Плотніца, Рухча, Радчыцк, Столін, Давыд-Гарадок. From Polkava one soon arrives in Mjasjatsichy, with its Orthodox church of Paraskjeva Pjatnitsa, an… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 20, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 19, 2017

Trinity Monday photo expedition through Pinsk and Stolin Districts: Polkhava, Mjasjatsichy, Vujvichy, Tyrvovichy, Sitsitsk, Plotnitsa, Rukhcha, Radchytsk, Stolin, Davyd-Haradok. Фотавандроўка ў дзень Сьвятога Духа па Пінскім і Столінскім раёнах: Полхава, Мясяцічы, Вуйвічы, Тырвовічы, Сіціцк, Плотніца, Рухча, Радчыцк, Столін, Давыд-Гарадок. As I photographed this house and its lilac bushes… …the owners returned… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 19, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 18, 2017

Trinity Monday photo expedition through Pinsk and Stolin Districts: Polkhava, Mjasjatsichy, Vujvichy, Tyrvovichy, Sitsitsk, Plotnitsa, Rukhcha, Radchytsk, Stolin, Davyd-Haradok. Фотавандроўка ў дзень Сьвятога Духа па Пінскім і Столінскім раёнах: Полхава, Мясяцічы, Вуйвічы, Тырвовічы, Сіціцк, Плотніца, Рухча, Радчыцк, Столін, Давыд-Гарадок. Like many of its neighboring villages in eastern Pinsk District, Polkhava has lost much of… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 18, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 17, 2017

Patronal feast of Holy Trinity, Mjestkavichy 2017. The Orthodox parish of the Holy Trinity in Mjestkavichy near Pinsk celebrates its patronal feast on the second day of Trinity, which Orthodoxy marks as the day of the Holy Spirit. Прастольнае сьвята Сьвятой Тройцы, Месткавічы пад Пінскам 2017 г. Прыход Сьвятой Тройцы ў Месткавічах сьвяткуе свае прастольне… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 17, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 16, 2017

Ausjamirava 2017. Аўсямірава 2017 г. Portraits of Polesia. We stopped to wish these grannies a happy Trinity and to ask the way to the Orthodox church. Партрэты Палесься. Спыніліся, каб віншаваць бабуляк са сьвятам і спытаць дарогу на царкву. Churches of Belarus (part CCXI): Orthodox church of the Archangel… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 16, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 15, 2017

Ausjamirava 2017. On Trinity Sunday afternoon we made an excursion to visit the Orthodox church in Ausjamirava, a village off the beaten track in the central Pripet area northwest of Stolin. The village itself held our attention, pleasantly slowing our approach to the church. Аўсямірава 2017 г. Crosses of Belarus (part LXXII). The… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 15, 2017