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Christmas leftovers #1

Bernard H. Wood — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:00:44 +0000

As with Christmas ‘over here’, food plays an integral role in Russian seasonal celebrations. I was curious enough to take a look at some of these ‘alien’ dishes and a few traditions surrounding them. We’ve dipped into several aspects of the Russian festive season over t...

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Grandfather Frost #3

Bernard H. Wood — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:00:51 +0000

So the transformation of several Slavic supernatural entities into the modern Russian Santa becomes complete. In our two previous blog posts, we’ve been looking at the gradual metamorphosis of fearsome ancient figures of myth as they were gradually distilled throughout history into one managea...

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Grandfather Frost #2

Bernard H. Wood — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:00:19 +0000

After last week’s introduction to Ded Moroz and Snegurochka, it’s time to look further into the ‘Russian Santa’ and his rather glamorous granddaughter. Mercifully, beneath his modern plasticised and commercial facade, something with more meat and teeth lurks, waiting. There a...

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Grandfather Frost #1

Bernard H. Wood — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:00:51 +0000

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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