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FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS IN RUSSIA - Coggle Diagram
FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS IN RUSSIA
Christmas
When did they start celebrating
in 1992
Religious holiday
Public Holiday
Families gather together to attend church services on Christmas Eve (6 January)
They then go home to feast on a special holy supper.
The Christmas Eve meal is typically meatless
Kutia is the main dish
February: Maslenitsa Festival
Marks the transition from winter to spring with the Christian tradition of feasting before Lent.
Different activities
making Maslenitsa dolls from straw and old clothes
making and eating lots of pancakes (blinis)
sledging
playing on seesaws
singing
fistfights
visiting relatives
exchanging gifts and feasting
The Maslenitsa dolls burn on the final day
people jump over bonfires
Celebrations start the night before Easter Sunday
Everyone paints boiled eggs in bright colors and has a traditional feast
8 March: International Women’s Day
Symbolizing women’s equality
It’s a day for celebrating women’s achievements.
everyone gives gifts to the important women in their lives
9 May: Victory Day
Victory Day celebrates the end of World War II with parades, spectacular fireworks and displays of military strength.
On Red Square in Moscow, soldiers and military equipment are deployed on the ground, while military planes fly overhead.
Military memorials all over Russia are spruced up, and there are displays in museums.
White Nights Festival, St Petersburg (May-July)
the sun never fully sets in St Petersburg between May and mid-June
the romantic backdrop for the annual White Nights Festival
festival with music and dance by Russian and international stars
The Mariinsky Theatre has a program
175 operas, ballets, and classical concerts
Carnivals are taking place
The White Nights Festival culminates with Scarlet Sails
The event celebrates the end of the school year.
June: Ivan Kupala Night
This is a summer solstice celebration.
Girls wear flower or herb wreaths on their heads
in the evening the wreaths are decorated with burning candles and set afloat
People light bonfires and jump over them for good luck.
December/January: New Year
People now decorate New Year trees instead of Christmas trees and Father Frost, accompanied by his granddaughter Snow Maiden, delivers presents instead of Father Christmas.
Families do
enjoy feasts
listen to the President’s New Year Speech and the Kremlin clock strikes midnight
Concerts, carnivals and street fairs – and a large ice rink in Red Square – are part of the fun.