Trimming New Year Tree - Winter festival - Zagorsk, USSR
Creator
Blizzard, William C., 1949-2008
Decorating the New Year Tree in front of a building from the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, a large monastery and center of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is was originally formed by St. Sergius of Radonezh in the 15th century and is locared in Zagorsk, which was previously known as Sergiyev and before that, Sergiyev Posad. From photographs taken by William C. Blizzard during a trip to the Soviet Union, 1979.