Христос Воскрес! Happy Ukrainian Easter!
It’s a strange and horrible time for a holiday. Ukrainian Easter, possibly the biggest day of the year in my culture, is not going to be the same this year.
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Happy Ukrainian Easter!
Happy Easter!
Edwardian Easter
Old Calendar Good Friday
Eastern Catholics and Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter according to the old calendar. In 2018, Good Friday falls on the 6th of April.
This is an old Ukrainian Easter postcard by Oleg Kovalenko.
New York’s Easter Parade
New York City has hosted an Easter parade on Fifth Avenue since the 19th century. Taking place on Easter Sunday, for decades it was one of the most significant cultural events of the year.
Here are some images of the parade from the late 19th and early 20th centuries:
On this day: Easter in 1865
This photograph is from Easter in 1865, which fell on the 16th of April. Pope Pius IX conducts Easter Mass in St Peter’s Square in Rome.
Easter in Ukraine
This 1887 painting of Ukrainian Easter is by Mykola Pymonenko.
Easter in Ukraine is a very significant holiday, with celebrations stretching long before and after the traditional Easter weekend. Ukrainians take baskets to church to be blessed, loaded with traditional foods and decorated with embroidery, candles, and the world-famous pysanky, the hand-painted eggs.
On this day: the assassination of a President
US President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on the 15th of April, 1865, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C.
This image depicting the moment of the assassination is from circa 1900.
Wartime Ukrainian Easter
Before, during, and after the Second World War, Ukrainians resisted (often in underground organisations), occupation by both Russia and Germany, as well as military aggression from others including Hungary and Romania. Additionally, the west of Ukraine was under Polish rule before the Soviets invaded. The region suffered heavily during Operation Barbarossa.
These vintage Ukrainian Easter cards are from that turbulent time – note the rifle carried by the man on the horse.
The writing is the typical Easter message for Ukraine, and translates to ‘Christ is Risen’.
American professor Timothy Snyder is a good place to start for information on the most overlooked aspect of the war, particularly his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.
In Times Gone By... 
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