One of Orthodox Christmas traditions is koledari - a kind of Christmas caroling. One of Russian names for Christmas eve is коляда, and koledari is called similarly–колядки.
Here are some 19 century postcards depicting koledari.
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Maslenitsa festivities in Russian art
- Boris Kustodiyev “Maslenitsa” (1919)
- Vasily Surikov “ The Capture of Snow Town” (1891)
- Konstantin Makovsky “Maslenitsa Festival on Admiralteyskaya square in Petersburg” (1869)
- Valentin Belykh “Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. Maslenitsa” (1908)
- Semyon Kozhin “Maslenitsa. Sendoff” (?)
- Pyotr Gruzinsky “Maslenitsa” (1889)
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Boris Kustodiyev “Maslenitsa” (1919)
- Boris Kustodiyev “Maslenitsa” (1920)