Apple Savior Day in Moscow: Blessed Apples, Pies and Church Customs
The 19 August Transfiguration feast, popularly called the Apple Savior, when apples of the new harvest are blessed in churches and eaten…
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The 19 August Transfiguration feast, popularly called the Apple Savior, when apples of the new harvest are blessed in churches and eaten…
A Russian observance on 8 July, the feast of Saints Peter and Fevronia, patrons of marriage, with the chamomile as its symbol,…
The Orthodox feast of Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, when churches are decorated with birch branches and greenery and priests wear green…
A Russian public holiday on 12 June marking the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty, with a day off, concerts and events around…
The 6 June birthday of Alexander Pushkin, born in Moscow in 1799, which is also the UN Russian Language Day, marked with…
The 24 May feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, creators of the first Slavic alphabet, marked in Moscow with a cathedral liturgy,…
A Russian public holiday on 9 May that commemorates the end of the Great Patriotic War, with a military parade on Red…
A Russian public holiday on 1 May, the former Soviet May Day, now mostly a spring day off spent outdoors, with parks,…
The Orthodox Pascha, a movable Sunday feast ending Great Lent, with the midnight Paschal Vigil at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour,…
The 12 April commemoration of Yuri Gagarin's first crewed space flight in 1961, with ceremonies, the titanium Monument to the Conquerors of…
Explore Moscow's Arbat district on a walking tour connecting neoclassical architecture, Russian music, Asian art, theatre, experimental design and Pushkin's former home.
A literary walk from the Bulgakov Museum and Patriarch's Ponds past the church where Pushkin married to the Maly Theatre and Theatre…
A riverside walk from the pedestrian Patriarshy Bridge past the Muzeon sculpture park and Krymsky Bridge to Gorky Park and the quiet…








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