Photo excursion to northwestern Valozhyn District: Valozhyn, Bahdanava, Vajhany, Mas’tsishcha, Vishnjeva. Фотавандроўка па паўночна-заходняй частцы Валожынскага раёна: Валожын, Багданава, Вайганы, Масьцішча, Вішнева. Old-Believer cemetery in Mas’tsishcha (I/III) 2018: traditional names (presented here in the Russian, not Belarusian, alphabet used on the gravestones; interestingly, however, in two cases the orthography is Belarusian). Стараверскія могілкі ў… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 22, 2018
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Photos of the Day for September 5, 2016
Braslau and the Braslau Lakes region. Браслаўшчына. Old Believers’ cemetery near Kryvasjel’tsy 2016. Стараверскія могілкі ля вёскі Крывасельцы 2016 г.
Photos of the Day for September 3, 2016
Braslau and the Braslau lakes region 2016: along the shore of Lake Volasa. Браслаўшчына 2016 г.: уздоўж набярэжжа возера Воласа. Old Believers’ cemetery in Krasnahorka. As in other Old Believers’ cemeteries, the cemetery in Krasnahorka is replete with ancient names: Jevstignjej, Fjebrusa, Larijon, Kirijak, Paramon, Ripsinjeja, Savva, Feoktsista. Стараверскія могілкі ў Краснагорцы са старадаўнымі… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 3, 2016
Photos of the Day for August 30, 2016
Journey to the Braslau lake district. Падарожжа на Браслаўшчыну. Churches of Belarus (part CLXXVIII): Old Believers’ church of the Dormition (1905), Varonka. Old Believers split from the Moscow Patriarchate after 1666 in reaction against liturgical reforms. Persecuted as schismatics by the Moscow Patriarchate, Old Believers migrated either to remote areas of Siberia or to… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 30, 2016