I work better from pictures than descriptions... Could someone who knows go to: http://www.sunbirds.com/cgi-local/item.cgi/990935 and see if the young ladies...
The pearl netting is the "podnitza"; while the strings of pearlss on the sides are the "riazny". Both are Byzantine in origin but became Russified and where...
... Bless you for trying, and being very close. ... Bless you doubly, for being right. "YA-nosh" Anyone wanna try for my other name? Noemi -- how do you...
Is there anyone here who can give me on information regarding the research on the Pagan Lithuanian culture/life? I'm doing research on it, as it is my...
www.cheesemaking.com We've made the "lemon cheese", it was fun and easy, you end up with a soft cheese that's great for fillings. Last Easter when we made the...
Not in Russian. That's all I can say. I know. I was hoping that either you or Luidmilla would have a better answer for all use non-Russian speakers (grin)........
Greetings Dmitri! First question, what part of Artemisia do you live in? If it is within commuting distance of Loch Salon, you have three big universities...
Hey I got a problem. Somehow someone in Poland got my name and sent me a letter but I have no way of understanding what he wrote. I started translating with...
Tasha, A kika is like a diadam or slightly banana shaped headband. The Novgorodian edging icons depict them as ribbons, the shape I just mentioned (1-1 1/2"...
Hello everyone! I have been going through my Russian costuming materials and came up with a question. On some men's caftans and other coats there are vents on...
... Dunno about Russian, but my relatives would tell you it was Domostwo Slowianskiego in their rural bad Polish. (the l is with a slash - pronounced as a w...
Greetings unto all, I am happy to announce that I, Sergei Stepanovich Bezrukov, have received my Award of Arms. It was presented to me at a local barony event...
How many of you are going to be at Gulf Wars? I'm not going to be able to organize a meeting the way I tried to last year as I now hold an office which will...
Ataman is period. It actually has three forms: <vataman">, <votaman"> and <ataman">. It does appear to refer to a military leader. A reference dated to 1294...
I am looking for the words/music/title of a Russian folk song in which a young girl is begging her mother to wait awhile before sewing her red sarafan/dress...
Predslava, I always wondered exactly what kind of beverage Giles Fletcher was alluding too in "Rude and Barbarous Kingdom" when he talked of "Aque Vitae". Got...
I received this review on H-RUSSIA, an excellent professionnal list. It looks like the kind of book we could use either as an introduction or as a summary, or...
I'd be interested in any kind of usable period feastgear. My current collection is bizarre, eclectic stuff I bought at the Salvation Army in desperation....
Everyone is welcome! Russian solstice feast for year 999. Please make certain to tell me if you are coming. feast at the end of the world The setting is a...
I was looking for references in the Domostroi for vodka and came across the below passage. I am seeing some problems with Pouncy's translation and need some...
... out ... This list has me thinking more than I've thought in a LONG time. My mother and my grandmother always chopped of the heads of the chickens and ...
I've been thinking (stand back, it might splatter)... and I'd be willing to post Mordak's costuming info to a webpage, complete with scanned drawings, if he...
... I believe this finds it precedent in Leviticus. It is, as I understand it, also a kosher rule. Leviticus 17:12 "Therefore I said to the children of...
I'm trying to formulate a period name from around what is now western Ukraine (at 1300) and, so far, have come up with Tat'ianka Mikhaila doch' Mynúka using...
... That's along the lines I was thinking. The term "kisloshchennyi" turns up several places in the Domostroi and something like it appears in an actual ...
