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У радыусе менш за 20 кіламетраў ад Ляхавічаў па Ляхавіцкім, Баранасіцкім і Клецкім раёнах знаходзіцца прынамсі 12 этнатапонімаў, якія адлюструюць некалькі з этнаграфічных слаёў адметнай культурнай спадчыны беларускай нацыі:  Ятвезь, Вялікая Лотва, Літва, Туркі, Сакуны, Ляхавічы, Русінавічы, Жомайдзь, Мазуркі, Цыгань, Літоўка ды Русіно.  На працягу наступных двух тыдняў Radzima Photo будзе паказваць дзымкі з веснавой… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 23, 2014

Procession, feast of the Resurrection, Al’homjel’ 2014.  Хрэсны ход, сьвяток Уваскрашэньня, Альгомель 2014 год. Moving counter-clockwise in the Orthodox tradition, the procession stops on all four sides of the church during the third and final circuit for a reading from the Gospels and blessing of parishioners with holy water.

Feast of the Resurrection, Al’homjel’ 2014.  Уваскрэшаньня Хрыстова, Альгомель 2014 год. Here, in a profound example of Christian and pre-Christian synchretism at the end of the service, parishioners kneel to let the icon, borne at the head of the procession, pass over them.

Children’s communion, feast of the Resurrection (Easter Tuesday), Al’homjel’ 2014. Hard-working, protective, guiding.  Yet ever graceful and always in their proper place.  I think Belarusian hands reveal most eloquently Belarusans’ distinctive and instinctive traditions and attachment to place. Дзіцячае прычасьце, сьвяток Уваскрашэньня, Альгомель 2014 год. Працавітыя, абараняльныя, ды навучальныя але абавязкова зграбныя, дбайныя, і, як… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 20, 2014

Belarus in Faces (part CXXXVIII):  pals, feast of the Resurrection, Al’homjel’ 2014. Беларусь у тварах (частка CXXXVIII):  мужычкі, сьвята Ўваскрашэньня, Альгомель 2014 год.

Early morning on the Feast of the Resurrection (Easter Tuesday), Al’homjel’ 2014.  The day dawned unusually foggy for mid-April and spider webs caught the dew in crystalline chains. Уваскрашэньня, Альгомель 2014 год.

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the death of Home Army officer Jan Piwnik (“Ponury”). Jan Piwnik was a member of the “Sight Unseen” (“Cichociemni” in Polish).  The “Sight Unseen” were special-operations Polish paratroopers organized in Great Britain; more than 300 were dropped from 1941-1944 into occupied Poland — including the part of Belarus… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 16, 2014

To commemorate the feast of Holy Trinity (June 15, 2014 in the Roman Catholic and Protestant calendar).  The beautiful late 16th-century church in Charnauchytsy, near Bjares’tsje (Brest) in western Belarus, celebrates both its parish feast day and first communion on Trinity Sunday. З нагоды сьвяты Сьвятой Тройцы (15-а чэрвеня 2014 г. у рыма-каталіцкім і пратэстанцкім… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 15, 2014

To commemorate the feast of Holy Trinity (June 15, 2014 in the Roman Catholic and Protestant calendar).  The church in Charnauchytsy, near Bjares’tsje (Brest) in western Belarus, celebrates both its parish feast day and first communion on Trinity Sunday. З нагоды сьвяты Сьвятой Тройцы (15-а чэрвеня 2014 г. у рыма-каталіцкім і пратэстанцкім каляндару).  Парафія сьвяткуе… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 14, 2014