A poet, publicist and a playwright Yanka Kupala (1882-1942) is rightfully celebrated as one of the harbingers of Belarus national rebirth. He vigorously advocated Belarusian independence, native language and folklore, and his works were legally...
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Mikhail Vrubel was one of those artists whose adherence to Symbolist worldview was not only a phase in his opus, but rather a way of life, an escape to transcendence, a perilous quest for an uncompromising individualism. Religious exploration...
Pavel Viktorovich Ryzhenko (1970-2014) was a contemporary Russian military artists.
The secluded village of Zalipie in southeastern Poland is home to a charming tradition. Over a century ago the women of the village began to paint their houses: however, it was not the single, uniform color one might expect from a traditional and...
The distinctive village of Cicmany in Slovakia (Hungarian: Csicsmány, German: Zimmermannshau) lies in the valley of the Strazovske Hillsm almost next to the spring of the River Rajcianka. The village is known for its historic and unique architecture...
The wedding is one of the most important Polish family celebrations. First there is the engagement period called Oswiadczyny, Zareczyny or Zrekowiny. The wedding day is set up by young people. Invitation time called: Zaprosiny or Oprosiny. Wedding...
“Morozko” or Father Frost is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki (1855-63). Once there lived an old widower and his daughter. In due time, the man remarried to an older woman who had a...
Russia is a country with a long and turbulent history. Many old-established religious celebrations, which were forbidden after the Russian Revolution of 1917, returned to the Russian calendar. In spite of everything, Old Christmas Glorification has...
An architect by education and a painter by vocation, Vladimir Velickovic was born in 1935 to a Serbian family in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, Velickovic joined the workshop of the Croat...