Author: johnkunstadter

Krahli 2010/Краглі 2010 год

Allee, Former Estate at Dvor Zhary 2007/Двор Жары 2007 год

Palm Sunday/Пальмовая нядзеля Most years Western (Roman Catholic and Protestant) and Orthodox Easter fall on different Sundays owing to different methods of calculating the date.  In 2010 Western and Orthodox Easter dates, and thus Palm Sunday, coincide, as they did in 2007.  What Western churches call Palm Sunday the Orthodox churches in Belarus and nearby… Continue reading Photos of the Day for March 28, 2010

For Palm Sunday (II)/З нагоды Пальмовай нядзелі (ІІ) Iuje 2009/Іўе 2009 год

For Palm Sunday (I)/З нагоды Пальмовай нядзелі (I) Iuje 2009/Іўе 2009 год

Annunciation Day (March 25). Звеставаньне Пана.   Vishnjeva (Vishnjeu), Valozhyn District 2007.  Вішнева (Вішнеў), Валожынскі раён 2007 год.  

In honor of Belarusan museum staff/У гонар гаспадыняў беларускіх музэяў. In my view museum staff in Belarus are angels:  knowledgeable and nobly modest, ingenious in the face of minimal budgets, inspired and devoted protectors of the patrimony of their nation and homeland.  A bow to them all. На мой погляд, гаспадыні беларускіх музэяў – анёлы: дасьведчаныя… Continue reading Photos of the Day for March 24, 2010

Zjabki 2007/Зябкі 2007 год

Куркуль (kurkul’ — “koorkoolj”) is a Belarusan term for an industrious and stolid, stubborn and frugal peasant.   Belarusans use the term with good-willed irony toward kurkulian frugality which may slip into tight-fistedness.  At the same time, Belarusans speak affectionately of the kurkulian sense of tidiness and order and the kurkul”s proud care of what he… Continue reading Photo of the Day for March 22, 2010

Vjeras’nitsa in Winter 2010/Верасьніца ўзімку 2010 год Annual Spring Flood, Veras’nitsa 2008/Паводка, Верасьніца 2008 год