#donkey walk

[momoksha]

A peaceful little moment of a donkey walking down the street!🐴💫(x)

[soulmusicsongs]

Donkey Walk - Lou Donaldson (Everything I Play Is Funky, 1970)

[russian-style]

Donkey walk in 1654. 

From the album of baron Meyerberg, Austrian ambassador to Russia.

The donkey walk was a ritual symbolized Christ's entry into Jerusalem. The patriarch represented Christ sitting on the horse and the tsar (Alexei Mikhailovich) led it on foot into the Kremlin. Kneeling people are streltsy according to Meyerberg's picture. 

This tradition rooted in Ivan the Terrible's reign was abolished by Peter I.