1888 Chromolithograph Slavic Marriage Russia Dance Priest Ceremony Ritual LCH5 RM3 Brunswick Maine

Brunswick Maine

This is an original 1909 black and white halftone print of a photograph of the ruins of the ancient Greek Temple of Apollo at the archeology site in Delphi

George Willard Smith

The NEC school is the oldest independent school of music in the United States

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1888 Chromolithograph Slavic Marriage Russia Dance Priest Ceremony Ritual LCH5 RM3 Brunswick MaineThis is a rare original 1888 color chromolithograph which depicts two fascinating traditional Russian scenes. In the upper panel a young couple performs a Russia dance, which is more than a pantomime than anything else. The lower panel portrays a joyous Slavic marriage ceremony. The priest has placed silver marriage crowns upon the heads of the newlyweds, a symbolic event that would often be done by the droujkis, or paranymphs, of an upper class bride