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On June 14, 2008, the villagers of Sosny celebrated "Rusal Week" with traditional rituals honoring and bidding farewell to the Rusalki. The festivities included dressing a girl as a Rusalka and leading her in a ceremonial procession accompanied by songs and dances. The symbolic farewell involved sending her off to the fields or forest, followed by communal celebrations aimed at ensuring a plentiful harvest and protection from malevolent spirits.
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Selections from Princeton’s collections of rare documents of the artistic, intellectual, social and political history of Russia, Eastern Europe and the territories of the Former Soviet Union.
Metadata
- Creator of work
- Liankevich, Andrei
- Geographic Origin
- Belarus
- Geographic Subject
- Belarus
- Subject
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- Religion
- Religion
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Item Summary
On June 14, 2008, the villagers of Sosny celebrated "Rusal Week" with traditional rituals honoring and bidding farewell to the Rusalki. The festivities included dressing a girl as a Rusalka and leading her in a ceremonial procession accompanied by songs and dances. The symbolic farewell involved sending her off to the fields or forest, followed by communal celebrations aimed at ensuring a plentiful harvest and protection from malevolent spirits.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Rusalii -1-8
- Sort Title
- rusalii -1-8
- Creator of work
- Liankevich, Andrei
- Date Created
- 03.14.2008
- Format
- Photographs
- Series
- Pagan
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
Physical Characteristics
- Height
- 60
- Width
- 60
- Page Count
- 8
- File Count
- 8
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton Slavic Collections
- Box number
- Digital box #1
- Folder number
- 203-210
- Barcode
- 00000000000000
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/ephemera_folders/5ac78269-321f-4ccc-a129-4551856136b7/manifest