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slavinkka · 3 months

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Настенька и Иванушка - Морозко❄️ (1964)🇷🇺

Nastenka and Ivanushka - Morozko

Main characters from the classic, Russian film Морозко. It is traditionally watched every year on New Year's/Christmas. It is based on the folk fairytale Морозко itself❄️

Nastenka and Ivanushka are affectionate forms of the names Anastasia and Ivan in Russian❤️

This film is very popular in Czechia🇨🇿 & Slovakia🇸🇰 as well, known as "Mrazík" over there. All have been traditionally watching this for the past 60 years.

Beautiful ending of the film, including wonderful Russian folk singing, I love all the gorgeous traditional attire and ornaments!

(I'll make another post in the future including other characters, can't forget about Marfushenka/Марфушенка and Morozko/Морозко!)

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slavinkka · 4 months

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Rakvice🇨🇿

Some beautiful Moravian dresses/costumes from Rakvice, a village/municipality in the South East of Czechia🇨🇿.

This place has wonderfully preserved their beautiful culture.

You will notice with Moravian dresses, women tend to have large, puffy dresses with their distinctive huge, wide skirts and abundant petticoats underneath.

In many regions in South Moravia, men's costumes typically include a long white embellished ribbon with a decorated cockade on the right side of their vests as you can see above.

I managed to find some older photos from 1959 too❤️

A traditional dress/costume in Czech & Slovak is called a "Kroj" (pronounced like kroi). I love how highly and beautifully embellished each garment is from here❤️

#slavic #slavic culture #folk #folklore #slavic tradition #tradition #czech republic #czechia #czech girl #moravia #czech folklore #czech tradition #moravian folklore #morava #moravian tradition #czech traditional dress #moravian dress

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slavinkka · 6 months

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Bridesmaids' Farewell🕯️🇸🇰

A clip from "Svadba spod Poľany" (A wedding beneath the hilly fields) by Slovak folk group Lučnica in 1981❤️

It depicts bridesmaids singing about their farewell with the bride from her perspective, during " čepcenie¹ ".

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- Unfortunately, the quality has been damaged, but I really love the gentle, doleful singing and music, it truly reflects how the bride is feeling.

(I skipped a verse because there's a word me or anyone I know cannot decipher at all, if anyone understands pls tell me lol😭)

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For some girls, a wedding was a depressing event, as they'll no longer have the freedom they've had their whole life up untill then, and will have to start a new life as a mother, housewife and worker.

They would have to leave their friends and family behind, and move into the husband's house, where the wedding took place and from then on, she began her new life.

(Note in reference to my previous post, how the unmarried girls have their hair braided and on display, whereas the married women have their hair hidden in bonnets.)

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It was a tradition during "čepcenie" for a song to be sung about the bride parting away from her friends, or anything relating to the bride's change of life, often in an intimate setting with candles.❤️

1. "Čepcenie" is when the bride has her wedding headdress taken off and has a bonnet put on, most happened on the following morning, but some had theirs during the wedding.

(More info in my next post + other countries.)

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#slavic #slavic culture #folk #folklore #slavic tradition #tradition #slovakia #wedding #traditional wedding

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slavinkka · 7 months

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are you from slovakia?^

Yep I am:)

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slavinkka · 7 months

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Braids & Ribbons🎀

In most Slavic cultures, it was a tradition for unmarried girls to have their hair in braids, and in some cultures, tied with a ribbon too.

Once a girl got married, she would have to tuck and hide her hair in a headdress, headscarf or cap/bonnet. (I will talk more about this in my next posts❤️)

In many cultures, as part of the marriage ceremony, girls would have their hair braided into two parts, then put into a crown hairstyle as shown above, before finally having their hair covered during or after the ceremony.

Braids and ribbons can symbolise a young girl's beauty and freedom❤️

In many areas, ribbons are worn on the tail of the braids as shown above, at the top from the Łowicz region, Poland🇵🇱 & from the Brest (Брест) region, Пружаны, Belarus🇧🇾❤️