Christmas Fortune Telling by Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky
© Bridgeman Art Library / Museum of Religion and Atheism, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Christmas Fortune Telling
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- Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky
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- Open edition
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- Bridgeman Art Library
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- © Bridgeman Art Library / Museum of Religion and Atheism, St. Petersburg, Russia
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The twelve days of holiday after Christmas (celebrated 7th January in the Eastern Orthodox Church) are seen as particularly auspicious for fortune telling in Russia; young girls would spread grain on the floor; the girl would marry whose feed was pecked first by the chicken;
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