The Christmas Table

The Christmas table

Celebrating Christmas in Finnish Viborg

Celebrating Christmas in Finnish Viborg (Viipuri) in the 1920s. At the time Viborg was the

second largest city in Finland and a thriving centre of culture.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2016!

Equestrian Lucia in Hittarp

This year Hittarp had a wonderful equestrian St. Lucia:

 

Winter is here

The view from my living room at 07.50 this morning:

 

 

The first snow

This was the view from my living  room at 5.30 this morning:

 

 

Tsar Nicholas II and his son in 1905

This is a 1905 photograph of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his son, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, born on 12 August 1904. Alexei perished with his parents and sisters in Yekaterinenburg in 1918.