Author: johnkunstadter

“The sacred Stolin land grants a warm welcome with its bread”, 2010/Столін 2010 год

Khatsinava 2009/Хацінава 2009 год

Celebrating Orthodox St. George’s Day (May 6), Bjarezhtsy 2007/Сьвяткаваньне Юр’я, Бярэжцы 2007 год

To mark Orthodox St. George’s Day (May 6)/З нагодай Юр’я St. George’s chapel, Kalby 2010/Капліца Сьв. Юр’я, Калбы 2010 год

Azarodniki 2008/Азароднікі 2008 год

Al’homjel’ 2007/Альгомель 2007 год

To commemorate the Constitution of May 3, 1791.  З нагоды Дня Канстытуцыі 3-га траўня. Tadeusz Kosciuszko (Tadevush Kas’tsjushka in Belarusan), a scion of a noble Belarusan family, was born near the town of Kosava in today’s Bjeras’tsje (Brest) Region. Kosciuszko/Kas’tsjushka statue, Lafayette Park, Washington, DC/Помнік Тадэвушу Касьцюшку, Вашінгтон

The marshes of the Pripet (Prypjats’) River in Polesia in southern Belarus contain beautiful oak groves, although many fewer than before the ecologically disastrous Soviet draining of much of the marshland, the so-called “amelioration”, in the 1960’s and 1970’s.  In “ameliorated” areas one sometimes sees isolated surviving oaks, stalwart figures like the one in today’s… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 2, 2010

Budslau 2007/Будслаў 2007 год The village of Budslau’s Church of the Assumption, a magnificent Baroque structure visible for miles in the surrounding countryside, is the site of Belarus’ principal Marian pilgrimage, with celebrations every July 1-2.

Pohiry 2010/Погіры 2010 год