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The countdown to #NewYear has begun!

30 days till 2024!

🎊 Let’s enjoy the Christmas spirit at the heart of Moscow – a historic shopping, #GUM, that stands facing Red Square.

Built in 1893, it attracts thousands of people, tourists from Russia 🇷🇺 and all over the world.

Would you like to visit it?

#NewYear2024 #moscow #russia #christmas
🎄🎉The Embassy of the Russian Federation wishes all those celebrating a blessed and Merry #Christmas!

🙏 May this holiday season bring you happiness and joy!
🎄☃️🎅 On 22 December 2023, the diplomats of the Russian Embassy in South Africa accompanied by Ded Moroz (Father Frost, Russian version of Santa Claus) congratulated the kids from the Bophelong Orphanage on the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays.

🎁 Boys and girls were gifted with stuffed toys and the wireless headphones, and the orphanage received two DVD players.

🎄 This charity event is not a formality for the employees of the Russian 🇷🇺 Embassy in South Africa. We are driven by the feeling that every adult should have the desire to make children happier, especially on Christmas eve.

#RussiaHelps #Christmas #NewYear2024
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Ballet “The Nutcracker” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky has become a symbol of magical transformation and the eternal renewal of life. And due to this, an inevitable part of the Christmas tradition.

🩰 Adapted from Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann’s story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, it was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg in 1892. The original production was unsuccessful, but the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet became very popular.

🌐 Outside Russia, the ballet was first performed in England in 1934. The famous George Balanchine's staging of “The Nutcracker” took place in New York City Ballet in 1954.

🌲 Since the late 1960s, P.Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” has become immensely popular in Russia and abroad. It has been performed by hundreds ballet companies primarily during the Christmas season.

🎉 Take time to enjoy the 1977 Bolshoi Theatre staging of “The Nutcracker”.

#RussianCulture #RussianBallet #RussianTheatre #Tchaikovsky #nutcracker #Christmas


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🎄 New Year and Christmas celebrations were held in Johannesburg

On 14 January 2024, Russian compatriots, representatives of the diplomatic corps and parishioners of the church participated in the New Year and Christmas celebrations hosted on the premises of St. Sergius Russian Orthodox Church in Johannesburg.

☦️ Acting Patriarchal Exarch of Africa Bishop Konstantin of Zaraisk, who is on an official visit to South Africa, celebrated the Divine Liturgy.

After the church service, a children’s concert prepared by the Sunday school took place in the refectory of the church. Ded Moroz (known as Father Frost) and Snow Maiden came to congratulate the children with poems and songs.

🎁 At the end of the event the young compatriots were given New Year gifts on behalf of the Russian Embassy in South Africa.

#Christmas #RussianOrthodoxChurch #SouthAFrica
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🎅 Today Father Frost’s birthday is celebrated in Veliky Ustyug of Russia which is considered his native town.

Father Frost (“Ded Moroz” in Russian) became the symbol of Russian winter, New Year and presents long ago.

He originates from the patron saint of Russia Nikolay and ancient Slavic Morozko, the personified element of nature.

❄️ Unlike his other foreign colleagues, Russian Father Frost is accompanied by his granddaughter Snow Maiden (“Snegurochka”). They ride in a traditional Russian “troika” – a sleigh drawn by three horses.

#RussianCulture #FatherFrost #SnowMaiden #NewYear #Christmas #RussianNewYear