The Kitchen at Christmastime: Decorating Gingerbread. Mjensk 2016. Упрыгожваньне пернікаў да Калядаў. Менск 2016 г. Master gingerbread maker Zoja Pryshyvalka decorating Christmas gingerbread. Майстар-пекар Зоя Прышывалка ўпрыгожвае калядныя пернікі. Zoja and her daughters Vul’ljana and Mikhalina. Спадарыня Зоя з дочкамі Вульлянай… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 24, 2016
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Photos of the Day for December 23, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of the Maladzjechna area 2015 (VIII/VIII): Krasnaje. Roughly half-way between Mjensk and Maladzjechna, Krasnaje is well known for its neo-Gothic Roman Catholic church. On this trip, two other buildings caught my eye. Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечаншчыны 2015 г. (VIII/VIII): Краснае. Заўсёды прыемна бачыць касьцёл Унебаўзяцьця Найсьвяцейшай Панны Марыі ў… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 23, 2016
Photos of the Day for December 22, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of the Maladzjechna area 2015 (VII/VIII): Tatarshchyna. Reflecting the settlement of Tatar warrior groups at the invitation of grand dukes of Lithuania from the 14th to 16th centuries, there is a score of villages in Belarus whose name refers directly to the Tatars. Five of the villages are called Tatarshchyna,… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 22, 2016
Photos of the Day for December 21, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (VI/VIII): side streets and outskirts. Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (VI/VIII): бакавыя вуліцы й прадмесьце. Shrine at site of cemetery destroyed by Soviet authorities in 1976 and overgrown expanse of the former cemetery, Haradotskaja Street. Каплічка на месцы могілак, знішчаных савецкай уладай у… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 21, 2016
Photos of the Day for December 20, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (V/VIII): Old Town Square area. Old Town Square and nearby streets contain a mix of late imperial (both czarist and Soviet) vernacular styles. Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (V/VIII): каля плошчы Старое Места. Buildings from the end of the XIXth/beginning of the XXth… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 20, 2016
Photos of the Day for December 19, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (IV/VIII): Soviet post-World War II housing architecture. Except for a brief period of constructivist experimentation in the 1920s, Soviet architecture left a mostly dismal patrimony: buildings and spaces contemptuous of the human scale; dreary pre-fab blocks; kitschy, spoglia-like recycling of classical elements after having brutally rejected the western… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 19, 2016
Photos of the Day for December 18, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (III/VIII). Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (III/VIII). Functionalism III: former garrison of the Polish Army’s 86-th regiment. Функцыяналізм III: былы гарнізон 86-а палка ВП. Former communications center for the Polish Army’s 86th regiment, now an apartment building, Chkalava Street 9. Былы… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 18, 2016
Photos of the Day for December 17, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (II/VIII). Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (II/VIII). Functionalism II: former garrison of the Polish Army’s 86-th regiment. Функцыяналізм ІІ: былы гарнізон 86-а палка ВП. Former Polish Army NCO barracks, refaced by local authorities in anticipation of the national harvest festival, held in Maladzjechna in… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 17, 2016
Photos of the Day for December 16, 2016
Survey of the architectural patrimony of Maladzjechna 2015 (I/VIII). Экспедыцыя па архітэктурнай спадчыне Маладзечна 2015 г. (I/VIII). A city of 100,000 about 70 kilometers to the northwest of Mjensk, Maladzjechna goes about its business with quiet dignity and a firm sense of local identity and history. Maladzjechna is known for its college of music, named… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 16, 2016
Photos of the Day for December 15, 2016
Architectural patrimony of Shchuchyn and Harodnja Districts 2016 (V/V): photo expedition with Anton Astapovich, chairman of the Belarusian Association for the Conservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments (ГА БДТАПГК). Спадчына Шчучынскага й Гарадзенскага раёнаў 2016 г. (V/V): фотаэкспедыцыя з Антонам Астаповічам, старшынёй Беларускага дабраахвотнага таварыства аховы помнікаў гісторыі й культуры (ГА БДТАПГК). Estate allee,… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 15, 2016