#Russian tradition

[madeleineengland]

✨KUPAŁA NIGHT

Kupała Night is a Slavic holiday associated with the summer solstice of the Sun, celebrated during the shortest night of the year, which falls around June 21-22 .

In Anglo-Saxon countries it is known as Midsummer.

Kupalnocka is devoted primarily to the elements of water and fire, which have a cleansing power. It is also a celebration of love, fertility, sun and moon.

The Slavic customs and rituals associated with the Kupała Night were to ensure health and harvest for the saints. Bonfires were lit in which herbs were burned. Various fortune-telling and dances took place during joyful games.

Girls put wreaths with lighted candles into the currents of the rivers. If the wreath was fished out by a bachelor, it meant that she would get married quickly. If he was swimming, the girl wasn't going to get married soon. If, however, it got on fire, drowned or entangled in the rushes, it was foretold of this old age. They are probably the remains of the old spring magic rituals ending the enchantment of the "good beginning", referring to the soulful rituals and the coming harvest.

In some regions it was believed that you could not bathe in rivers, streams or lakes during the day until Kupala Day, while bathing after dusk or before sunrise cured various ailments, as water was then a healing element belonging to the moon.

The Kupala Night celebrations began with the ritual making of fire from ash and birch wood (some sources mention only oak wood). Jumping over the fire and dancing around was supposed to cleanse, protect against evil powers and disease. According to beliefs, aquarians, waterlines and drowners, as well as most other water demons, liked to lurk for summer-thirsty people who unreasonably take a bath before Kupała night. Only after this holiday, swimming in water became relatively safe.

Photos from Roskosh Model

#kupala night #summer #slavic folklore #kupala #slavic tradition #east europe #summer solstice #june #female models #slavic model #slavic women #russian folklore #polish folklore #ukrainian folklore #russian costumes #polish costumes #polish traditions #ukrainian tradition #russian tradition #slavic history #Slavic rituals #midsummer

[constanzarte]

Alexei Harlamoff, Summertime

#classic art #traditional painting #traditional art #art history #classical art #oil painting #art detail #art details #19th century art #art #contemporary art #1800s art #fine art #artwork #modern art #oil on canvas #oil paintings #alexei harlamoff #russian art #russian artist

[sovietpostcards]

"Peoples of Russian Northern areas" by Ivan Bilibin (1905)

#1900s #traditional dress #russian empire

[eursolons-mushroom]

After much planning, time and love, I've finally finished my World's Beyond Number nesting dolls. Im not one to make fan art, but this podcast has moved me to the point of creation. I simply NEEDED to have the gang for my desk. Im so happy with all the details I was able to fit in.

#the wizard the witch and the wild one #WBN #fanart #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan #erika ishii #lou wilson #the last image is a favorite food of each character hidden on the bottom #i really went for it doing a little photoshoot for them and making collages to show off little details #im obsessed with them #making the traditional russian doll style blend with their official fanart was such a fun challenge

[ternovye]

#slavic witch #slavic culture #slavic folklore #slavic mythology #slavic #russian mythology #Russia #witch girl #witchcraft #traditional art #digital art #artists on tumblr #traditional drawing

[russian-aesthetic]

#russia #russian aesthetic #russians #russian empire #tradition #photo #orthodox #religion #woman

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Karl Bryullov (Russian, 1799-1852) The Last Day of Pompeii, Detail, 1830-33 The Mikhailovsky Palace

#pompeii #the last day of pompeii #art #fine art #fine arts #oil painting #traditional art #classical art #mediterranean #europe #european #europeans #european art #1800s #russian art #russia #russian #karl bryullov

[ink-the-artist]

forgive me if you've been asked this before or if its annoying, but how did you learn to use colored pencils like that? your art is so special to me.

ty :) I took an art class for a few years where our teacher had us buy prismacolor pencils as one of the art supplies and had us use them kinda like paints, pressing down hard right away and blending the colors together. its not how youre supposed to use them she was just trying to teach us to use color and ig this was more to the point. I picked them up again years after i stopped going to that class just bc they were there and i wanted to play around w them a bit and ended up actually enjoying it when doing it on my own terms lol

#it was a weird class #it was just this russian lady doing private lessons in her house that my mom learned about somehow #I did NOT like those classes all we did was still life and they were hours long which is esp rough when im in high school and busy #and she wanted us to stand while working the whole time bc tradition i guess? #she did allow me to work sitting but thought i was lazy for it. idk dude i dont want to exhaust myself fast for no reason #standing is a lot more tiring than walking #i def did still benefit from those classes just from learning to accurately draw from life #did not like the teacher tho #on one hand shed paid for the art supplies for kids whos families were too poor to (and these are nice expensive supplies) #which is very nice #but on the other she was very homophobic and open about it #like when they legalized gay marriage she went on a rant about how horrible it is that they can adopt kids now #and also kind of racist #she was telling me how she got blocked from a facebook group bc she made a post asking if she could speak to a white person #and she didnt realize she was posting that publicly she thought it was a private message to the group owner #im honestly still not sure i heard/understood her correctly bc it was so bizzare and the only time i ever remember her being racist #she talked abt it like she genuienly was unaware it was racist #she described it as a misunderstanding bc she accidentally posted it publicly instead of privately #like it wouldnt have been racist to ask that at all #also one time she talked about how she saw demons in her home once #also she doesnt vaccinate her kids bc of microchips #she was like a walking russian stereotype lol #anyway heres some ink the artist lore

[otter-pop]

☎Gremlin boy. He seems to really like this call.☎

There are also a couple of sketches and drawings of me and my friend in the style of the 70s!

#art #artists on tumblr #traditional art #black christmas #billy lenz #slashers #russian artist #gremlin boy #Spotify

[rozenguilden]

Cuties

#crime and punishment #raskolnikov #c&p #fanart #rodion romanovich raskolnikov #russian literature #fyodor dostoevsky #sonya semyonovana marmeladova #sonya marmeladova #character design #traditional art #classic lit #russian lit #dostoevksy #rodya x sonya #sodya

[huariqueje]

Svetlana Guessing on Her Future - Karl Pavlovic‏ Briullov, 1836.

Russian, 1799 - 1852

#Karl Pavlovic‏ Briullov #russian artist #candlelight scenery #new year's eve traditions #hope future #Finnish New Year’s traditions

[vintage-russia]

Woman in a Russian man's costume,Nizhniy Novgorod (1870s)

Photography by Andrey Karelin (1837-1906)

#Россия #Russia #vintage #photography #Нижний Новгород #Nizhniy Novgorod #русский фотограф #russian photographer #photographer #Андрей Карелин #Andrey Karelin #русский народный костюм #russian costume #costume #traditional #русские #russians #people #slavs #русская культура #russian culture #culture #slavic #black and white #russian #european #vintage photography #1870s #19th century

[fivetrench]

I’m going to invent new types of explosives just to blow him up.

#i BADLY need to hear him speak russian #like #carnally or whatever yhe faggots say #artists on tumblr #artblr #artists of tumblr #my art #fanart #viktor #viktor arcane #arcane #arcane league of legends #arcane fanart #arcane viktor #arcane lol #lol arcane #traditional art #digital art #(created traditionally edited digitally) #artwork #sketch art #sketch #trenchposting

[sovietpostcards]

The Firebird. Vintage wooden box made in Palekh, painted by N. Vanilkova (USSR, 1976).

#things #palekh #book illustration #traditional #russia #1970s #russian fairy tales

[maxwellscorner]

My Russian Decapod oc which I drew at work

He's tired and went through a lot, poor thing

#ttte oc #maqui's sketchbook #ink drawing #traditional art #traditional drawing #russian decapod #ivan the siberian engine #locomotive #steam locomotive

[ternovye]

чему быть - того не миновать

#slavic mythology #slavic witch #slavic culture #slavic folklore #slavic #russian mythology #russian folklore #traditional art #line art #digital art #artwork #artists on tumblr #illustrator #witchcraft #moon phases