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Belarus, Tonezh, March 1, 2009.
Children and adults celebrated the pagan holiday "Hukanne Viasny" ("Calling of Spring") by baking zhavaronki (larcs) - symbolic bird-shaped pastries, which they offered to nature or tossed into the air to summon the return of the birds.
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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.
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- Creator of work
- Liankevich, Andrei
- Geographic Origin
- Belarus
- Geographic Subject
- Belarus
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