Russian holidays

The calendar of the Russian holidays was bugged: through Christian traditions there and here "shift the" pagan, tied to an annual natural cycle. The book leads the reader from the beginning of the year to his end, making stops on every festive date, and tells what rites accompanied the meeting of spring, sowing, harvesting. How did the girls gade in Russia, why swinging on a swing and rode from the mountains villagers, who are such inhabited and wipes, what is a kum, meatseed, "terrible evenings" and "chicken names" ...
The charming illustration of Faith Pavlova is a poetic world, where heroes are both ordinary people and Russian saints, angels and seraphims. Birds fly through the pages, snail crawl, rolling cats, lambs and hares.
The book explains the preserved traditions and interprets the echoes of the departed, builds the bridge between the past and the present. Suitable for family reading and will be useful to everyone who is interested in the history of the Russian people