A groom and a bride from the village of Troyeshchyna. The bride is dressed in traditional folk clothing of the 20th century. The photo of 1952. Both the groom and the bride hold icons in oklads (metal covers), wrapped with embroidered ryshyks (a decorative and rithual cloth). Photo from the historical ethnographic album Ukraine and Ukrainians by Ivan Honchar, volume Left-Bank Kyiv Region, sheet "Troyeshchyna Village."
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