Russian family: holidays and traditions

Russian family. Holidays and traditions ”is a collection built on the principle of the Orthodox calendar. The reader passes the life of a traditional Russian family during the year. Descriptions of the main Christian holidays, worldview and historical texts, the lives of saints alternate with the stories and verses of Russian writers and poets. This is a book for family reading. The reader seems to look at the world through the eyes of a child from the works of Vasily Nikiforov-Volgin, Ivan Shmelev, Apollinaria Vasnetsov. The collection is supplemented by descriptions of Russian holidays and traditions, folk songs, jams and proverbs, interesting recipes from the culinary books of the 19th century, illustrated by works of Russian painting of the XIV -XX centuries, photographs and ancient cards