This traditional Ukrainian Flower crown was made using paper, foil, wax, and wire, and techniques such as cutting, and encaustic, which is hot wax painting. Crowns such as this one were worn by women of marital age to represent purity.
This Ukrainian wedding flower crown is made of paper, cotton fabric, paraffin, and wire. It was created in 1956 in Osichki of the Podilsk Raion of the Odesa Oblast.
An image slideshow of the Vinnytsia Tram Museum - The Tram Museum is the newest museum of our city, opened in October 2013 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of tram traffic in the city of Vinnytsia. It is located on the territory of the tram depot of the utility company "Vinnytsia Tram and Trolleybus Administration". Its exposition presents photographs and exhibits related to the history of tram traffic in the city, the development of the transport enterprise itself. Next to the exhibition hall is an exhibition of tram cars that worked in our city in different years. All passenger cars can be ordered for an individual trip around the city.
The artifact was made by one of the Kyiv Master goldsmiths, Master Byshevs′kyǐ, for an unknown marriage around 1857. This crown was made for the crowning ceremony of Eastern Christian wedding tradition. The crown of marriage would be placed on the groom's head, with a similar one for the bride, to signify Jesus Christ’s victory over sin, evil, and death. This ceremony would typically have friends, family, and clergy members in attendance and involve prayers and hymns. “An Explanation of the Crowning Ceremony.” Melkite Eparchy of Newton, https://melkite.org/faith/faith-worship/an-explanation-of-the-crowning-ceremony.
The materials of the exhibition tell about the emergence and combat activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Volyn, about the commanders and insurgent soldiers, among whom was the graphic artist Nil Khasevych, whose military graphics are presented in the museum.
Image of kindergarten children from Kindergarten No. 1 in the Korabelnyi District of Mykolaiv during the Third Soviet Famine. Children such as these starving in the famine were referred to as «пухлі діти», "chubby children" because of their distended abdomens.
Outdoor performance, on grass, under some trees, of the symphony for workers on collective farms. A woman is singing a solo, standing in front of the ensemble.