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Object Number
2019.5.1.36
Display Title
"Once a year, Father Dmitry leaves the Cathedral of the Assumption and goes down to the banks of the Volga to bless the water, giving it symbolic power to wash away the sins of the previous year. Astrakhan, Russia, 2012"
Descriptions
Classification
- Photographic
Department
Photographic
Date
2012
Artist
Chloe Dewe Mathews
(2010)
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Europe
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Russia
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Astrakhan Oblast
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<County>
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Astrakhan
Materials
Digital
Quantity
1
Credit Line
Robert Gardner Fellow
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