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A memory of a lost family member.
©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1995 The burning candles, the cross and the small drinking glass, are a typical orthodox ways to memorize the dead family members.
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After 70 years of atheism, the old Christian people again can wo
©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1995-09 An old woman lit a fire for a dead relative. An old orthodox tradition.
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Icon painting on the ceiling of the Pokrovo-Vlasievskaya church
©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1995-11 "The rare icon painting on the ceiling of the Pokrovo-Vlasievskaya church has survived 70 years of communism, and such art is selldom to see ""in real""."
 
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The altar of the Pokovo-Vlasievskaya church in Karargopol
©Øyvind Ravna
Date: 1995-11 "The altar of the old wooden church "" Pokovo-Vlasievskaya"" in the village Lyadiny close to Karargopol"
 


 
        

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