My ethno-Point Of View: Russian

marți, 28 august 2012

Sing and dance in Russian - Lipovan style

In Sulina city (Romania) lives a community of Old Believers/Starovery/Lipovans (504 souls - National Census from 2002). They preserved the traditional costume (for church and for spectacles). The head of married women must be covered with a chicika (a little bonnet) and the long skirt must cover the ankles.

A part of their actual identity is represented by songs from Russian motherland and dances influenced by the Russian Ballet.

Russian - Lipovan Ensemble Chaika from Sulina City (Dobrogea region - Romania)

Russian - Lipovan Ensemble Chaika from Sulina City (Dobrogea region - Romania)
Chaika/Чайка means Seagull.

Here you can listen a song here.

Russian Dances Group from Sulina City (Dobrogea region - Romania)

Russian Dances Group from Sulina City (Dobrogea region - Romania)

Russian Dances Group from Sulina City (Dobrogea region - Romania)

luni, 2 iulie 2012

Eat in multi-ethnic style

I like to believe that Dobrogea is a meeting place between North and South and East and West. Here came sometime, people from different geographical areas, with various religions, cultures and lifestyles. And they told to this place HOME and made it exactly like the original HOME.

The traditional gastronomy is just one aspect of Dobrogea... but a very tasty one.

Photos taken in the court of Ethnographical and Folk Art Museum Tulcea.