How to Celebrate the End of a Pagan Winter Holiday

Following Instagram’s lead, here are some images of Russia as it was a decade ago.

Russians marked Orthodox Epiphany overnight by dipping themselves into icy rivers, ponds and lakes across the country.

The Jan. 9 snowfall ranked among the five heaviest in Moscow’s 146 years of weather records.

Indigenous and minority communities have made an effort to revive their ancestral traditions of greeting the new year since the Soviet collapse.