A font is seen on the eve of Epiphany in the Middle harbour of Kronstadt, Leningrad region, Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the holiday according to the Julian calendar.18.01.2022#6744128
A girl takes an icy dip in the Verkh-Isetsky Pond on the eve of Epiphany, in Yekaterinburg, Russia. A Christian feast is celebrated on January 19 according to the Julian calendar.18.01.2022#6744093
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend a joint press conference following their meeting, in Moscow, Russia.18.01.2022#6743943
A man during a traditional festive bathing on the Epiphany Eve at the Valdai Iversky Monastery in the Novgorod Region.18.01.2018#3276830
Winners of the competitions in pair skating at the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Moscow during the award ceremony: Kseniya Stolbova and Fyodor Klimov (Russia) -- second place; Yevgeniya Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov (Russia) -- first place; and Natalya Zaviyako and Alexander Enbert (Russia) -- third place.18.01.2018#3276655
Yekaterina Yurlova-Percht (Russia), who came sixth in the women's sprint of the 2017-2018 IBU World Cup Biathlon 6 in Antholz Anterselva, Italy. Bear Bumsi, right, the mascot of the IBU World Cup Biathlon 6.18.01.2018#3276207
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, left, gives an interview to The Wall Street Journal in Davos (Switzerland).18.01.2017#3011773
An ice hole is prepared for Epiphany bathing at Trinity Monastery of Gerasim Boldinsky in Dorogobuzhsky District in the Smolensk Region.18.01.2017#3011521
Soviet theater, variety, film actor, master of ceremonies, theater director, gag performer. People's Artist of the USSR, 1966. Art director of the Leningrad Theater of Variety and Miniatures Arkady Raikin.18.01.1980#2779771
A priest blessing water in an ice hole at the Aptekarskaya embankment in St. Petersburg.18.01.2016#2774788
Workers cut a hole in the ice for Theophany celebrations on the Irtysh River in the town of Tara, Omsk region.18.01.2016#2774679
Epiphany bathing at a spring in the village of Staroye Rakamo in the Novgorod region.18.01.2015#2557116
Kim Ji Xen (South Korea) in the men's mogul qualification round at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in Kreischberg.18.01.2015#2557093
Biathletes during women's mass start at the BMW IBU World Cup Biathlon 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany.18.01.2015#2556834
A parishioner kisses an icon in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, prior to a divine liturgy with a rite of blessing waters conducted by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.18.01.2015#2556822
A priest blesses a cross-shaped ice hole on the Miltyush river, the village of Burmistrovo, Novosibirsk Region, on the Eve of the Epiphany.18.01.2015#2556788
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Breaking News: Blockade Broken!, January 18, 1943. Reproduction.18.01.1943#2522619
Epiphany bathing performed in the spring of the venerable Serafim Sarovsky on the grounds of Holy Trinity Serafimo-Diveyevsky Monastery at Diveyevo village in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.18.01.2014#2349811
Believers dive in an ice hole on the Volkhov River during Epiphany bathing in Veliky Novgorod.18.01.2014#2349756
An Epiphany jordan on Borodaevsky lake in the village of Ferapontovo, Vologda region.18.01.2014#2349607
An Epiphany jordan on Siverskoe Lake, near the walls of St. Kirill-Belozersky monastery in the town of Kirillov, Vologda region.18.01.2014#2349604
Russian traditions. A historic reenactment of hunting with hounds. Horses are led out of a stable.18.01.2013#1372855
Italy's Simon Gruber in the big air qualification competitions at the FIS Snowboard World Championships.18.01.2013#1345323
Czech Republic's Eva Cameron competes in the women's slopestyle qualification event during the FIS Snowboard World Championship 2013, held in Stoneham, Canada.18.01.2013#1345240
Roope Tonteri of Finland, gold winner, competes in men's slopestyle at the 2013 Snowboarding World Championships.18.01.2013#1344192
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, right, holds the rite of the Great Blessing of Water in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.18.01.2013#1343360
Traditional Epiphany bathing in an ice hole on the sore of the Sportivnaya Harbor in Vladivostok.18.01.2012#1016473
Athletes at men's biathlon teams' training session during the 2011–12 Biathlon World Cup's round 6.18.01.2012#1016338
Preparing an ice hole for the traditional Epiphany bathing near the Goritsy Ascension Convent.18.01.2012#1016273
A skater in the women's 3,000 m (speed skating) at the First Winter Youth Olympic Games.18.01.2012#1016264
Spain's Rafael Nadal plays in his second round match against Germany's Tommi Haas at the Australian Open Tennis Championships.18.01.2012#1016061
A girl running toward the ice hole to mark the Epiphany festival with bathing, Alexander-Svirsky Monastery.18.01.2011#842091
Religious procession in honor of the Epiphany festival, Alexander-Svirsky Monastery.18.01.2011#842089
Moscow residents protesting against new approach to count maternity and baby allowances participate in the rally in defense of pregnant women's rights near Russia's Ministry of Health and Social Development.18.01.2011#841782
New samples of the outfit and special equipment for inspecting suspicious objects and explosives.18.01.2002#677396
Crew members of space ship "Soyuz TM-2" (from left): The USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Alexandr Laveikin (born in 1951), The USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Anatoly Levchenko (born in 1941), commander, the USSR pilot-cosmonaut, two times Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Romanenko (born in 1944) and The USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Alexandr Alexandrov (born in 1943) after receiving State Awards of the USSR in the kremlin.18.01.1988#627250
Professor of the Moscow Conservatory David Oistrakh with his student Danuta Pomerantsayte.18.01.1966#598562
Riding the horse is mother Marina, the wife of Fr. Artremy, who used to be a livestock specialist. Mugreyevo-Nikolskoye village. The Yuzha District.01.02.1996#595424
Red Cross medics on duty at the square by the Lithuanian parliament building during the tragic events of January 1991.18.01.1991#443147
Water blessing rite beside Russia's oldest Sophia Cathedral during Epiphany Festival, Veliki Novgorod 18.01.2008#179055
Left to right foreground, U.S.S.R. First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Kornienko, CPSU spokesman Leonid Zamyatin and Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, U.S.S.R. First Deputy Defense Minister, addressing a news conference at the Foreign Ministry press center after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's statement on disarmament and curbing the arms race in 198618.01.1986#185296
The widow of Congo's former Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, Pauline, with her children.18.01.1963#44443
Ships moving along passage opened up by powered ice-breaker Lenin in Vilkitsky Strait. 18.01.1962#31255
