The Adoration of the Shepherds, (Поклоніння пастухів). A Ukrainian religious painting taken from an iconostasis, and dated between 1650 and 1700.
The 6th of January is Christmas Eve for Ukrainians of all Christian denominations.
The main Christmas celebrations take place at this time.
Yuletide Fortune Tellers in Ukraine in an 1888 painting by Mykola Pymonenko. Ukrainians still celebrate the Christmas season by the old calendar, as do many neighbouring regions.
In a photograph dated the 30th of December, 1914, soldiers cook a Christmas roast on a “spit” held up with rifles, a spade, and sticks.
World War One.
Italian-Americans Lodovico and Maria Angelica Calderara pose with their family in front of their Christmas tree.
26th December, 1924.
English children around the Christmas cake in Pinner, Middlesex on Christmas Day, 1944.
The girl cutting the cake is Jean Devereux, and her father was serving in the war in Italy at the time. The tree is a gift from him, purchased through the “Gifts to Home League” which was operated by the YMCA.
Below is an image of the tree being delivered to the house.
