Moscow"s Holidays: A Metaphysical Guide to the Capital and its Calendar

This book leads the reader to one of the most unusual travel in Moscow - in the circle of Moscow holidays, old and new, large and small, secular, church and folk. The festive calendar is full of a variety of information: about its past and present, about the nature, habits and extremes of its inhabitants, about the architecture and metaphysics of the ancient city, about the historically established confrontation between Moscow and St. Petersburg and many more, many other things. In the calendar, as in the mirror, Moscow is reflected. Sometimes in front of this mirror she embellites itself: in the calendar, fairy tales, fictions and myths often come across the citizens themselves. From this journey Moscow time is made even more interesting. Under the Moscow viewing angle of view, some aspects of creativity of such national geniuses, like Pushkin and Tolstoy, are completely unexpected