Celebrating Epiphany at the Tobol river.

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Epiphany bathing in an ice hole, Orlinskoye village.

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Epiphany bathing in an ice hole, Lake Orlinskoye, Village "Orlinskoye" .

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Office of water blessing during Epiphany bathing in Lake Orlinskoye, Village "Orlinskoye".

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Office of water blessing at Lake Orlinskoye, Village "Orlinskoye".

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Epiphany bathing in Kazan

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Epiphany bathing in Kazan

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Office of water blessing on the Twelfth-day

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Epiphany service at the church of the Holy Savior's image, put up in 1823 to commemorate Russian warriors killed when seizing Kazan in 1552.

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Epiphany bathing in the Nerl river, Bogolyubovo village.

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Epiphany bathing in the Nerl river, Bogolyubovo village

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Bathing in an ice-hole in the Belaya River on Epiphany Day.

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Celebrating Epiphany Day near the Belaya River.

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Bathing in an ice-hole in Lake Kravtsovo on Epiphany Day. Grushevy hamlet.

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Bathing in an ice-hole in Lake Kravtsovo on Epiphany Day. Grushevy hamlet.

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Celebrating Epiphany Day in Starocherkasskaya stanitsa [Cossack village] in the Rostov Region on the bank of the Don River.

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A water-consecration rite during Epiphany Day celebrations in Starocherkasskaya stanitsa [Cossack village] on the bank of the Don River.

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A water-consecration rite during Epiphany Day celebrations in Starocherkasskaya stanitsa [Cossack village] in the Rostov Region on the bank of the Don River.

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A water-consecration rite during Epiphany Day celebrations in Starocherkasskaya stanitsa [Cossack village] in the Rostov Region on the bank of the Don River.

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Bathing in Lake Bezdonnoye [Bottomless] in Moscow's Serebryany Bor district on Epiphany Night.

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Giving Theophany Water at the Epiphany, St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Novosibirsk.

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Giving Theophany Water at the Epiphany, St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Novosibirsk.

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Giving Theophany Water at the Epiphany, St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Novosibirsk.

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Giving Theophany Water at the Epiphany, St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Novosibirsk.

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Swimming in Obskoe reservoir at the Epiphany, Novosibirsk.

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Swimming in Obskoe reservoir at the Epiphany, Novosibirsk.

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Swimming in Ostankinsky pond at the Epiphany.

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Swimming in the river Istra at the Epiphany near the New-Jerusalem Monastery.

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Swimming in the river Istra at the Epiphany near the New-Jerusalem Monastery.

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Swimming in the river Istra at the Epiphany near the New-Jerusalem Monastery.

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Taking to icy water in the river Istra at the Epiphany near the New-Jerusalem Monastery.

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Taking to icy water in the river Istra at the Epiphany near the New-Jerusalem Monastery.

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Taking to icy water in the river Istra at the Epiphany near the New-Jerusalem Monastery.

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