Russia Experience » New Year celebrations http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk Trans-Siberian Railway Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:10:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3 The New New Year and the Old New Year http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/russian-new-year-celebrations/ http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/russian-new-year-celebrations/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2015 09:00:45 +0000 http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/?p=5319 In all of the recent articles relating to Russian mid-winter celebrations, there has been a crucial omission on my part. It may be a seasonal fundamental, and indeed ‘normal’ for them, but decidedly alien to us. The Russians have two New Year’s celebrations. There – I said it...

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]]> http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/russian-new-year-celebrations/feed/ 0 Grandfather Frost #1 http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/grandfather-frost-russian-fairy-tale/ http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/grandfather-frost-russian-fairy-tale/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:00:51 +0000 http://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/?p=5255 The thought of Christmas generally makes me physically ill. Here in the UK it’s become a repellent gluttony, greed and sloth fest – with optional pride and envy thrown in. Most of the seven deadly sins are covered at a stroke in the season of Mammon who seems to elbow out the Christian G...

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