Self-print: Historical reenactment

[the battle reenactment from which some of the following postcards came is today, July, 25th, 2015]

     Self prints are the best when they crack opened for you someone's life passion. And those ones are like it: the historical reenactment is an activity in which people follow the plan to recreate the certain historical period or event. Usually reenactors [or reconstructors as they are called in Russia] play one-two of periods and each club plays certain one, in Europe most of reenactments are medieval, in Russia WWII are prevailing [one of them - 'Battle field' - 'Pole boya', i visited twice and going this summer too, they have also authentic tanks and machinery from museums and ones they dug from the swamps]. I received five postcards from Anna, and each one of them is beautiful.

     Anna's husband is running a reenactors club in Moscow Region's Chekhov, where major festival event is being held yearly - Reenactment of Battle of Molodi [their site] (1572), one of the key battles of Ivan the Terrible's reign, so the flamboyant man [1] was from that battle reenactment. The girls on second postcard [2] are doing that they are doing nothing and it's common activity for women on those reenactments festivals - because you can't cook all day long, especially during the heat of midday battle, when main eaters are out, so they just are bored for lack of an occupation and pose to tourists. The knights' photo [3] is the latest - from August, 2nd, 2014 - Anna's birthday and Day of Russian Airborne forces - so some old and respectable troopers from Chekhov called reenactors on their picnic, not bothering of what epoch they are doing.

1.                         2.                                                           3.

4.                                               5.

[note from 18.06.2023 'two of five' was written here - what I was thinking of not showing ALL the amazing cards I received] all received from lhanya, Russia (direct swap) [if i'm correct, the sender is with beads on the right picture]

     On the backside of this rider [4] was story about Anna's husband who is in the everlasting quest of finding his battlehorse, because he's too heavy for regular ones, especially with all armour. So once he encountered a horse which on his opinion would fit him, but didn't remember name or even paint, only the name, that 'might be Chestnut'. So every summer souses try to find that Chestnut but no luck yet, and the horse on the picture looks a bit like him, fantastic and uncatchable Chestnut.

     And the last [5], and my favorite, is of course the bead necklaces. which are 'power' and 'topic of discussion' always. The beads on picture are for Russian reenactments - simple stones, carnelian and lead glass, but for Scandinavian reenactments - have more and prettier, even when looking faded, they cost a lot, so husbands should check whether leather tie holds still.