Russian Christmas Decorations

Long standing russian christmas customs include caroling fortune telling and following a strict nativity fast for forty days leading up to christmas eve.

Russian christmas decorations. Russia has unique potential of applied art products which often are made entirely by hand. St nicholas continued to be a popular figure in russia until the russian orthodox church fell out of power after the communist revolution of 1917. January 7 through january 19 mark the dates for russian christmastide also called svyatki. Purchase russian christmas decor and gifts.

In the catalog section you can find the most popular russian gifts and souvenirs. In russia this holy supper is known as sochevnik also sochelnik or rozhdestvenskyi sochelnik. In russia christmas is celebrated on january 7th. Among these were the decoration of a tree festive decorations of the house and family gatherings the visit by gift giving дед мороз grandfather frost a russian version of santa claus.

See more ideas about christmas christmas ornaments russian santa. Russian orthodox christmas rozhdestvo is celebrated on the julian calendar date of jan. The russian christmas tree is usually taken down at the end of january after the feast day of the baptism of christ. Aug 12 2013 explore kira koktysh s board 29.

Russian christmas followed by 527 people on pinterest. Prior to the russian revolution when the russian orthodox church had great power st nicholas was a patron saint and like throughout europe christmas was widely celebrated. Often russian christmas and russian new years are combined into a long winter celebration. Celebrating the new year is a more important holiday in russia than christmas.

Many russian christmas traditions originated with the pagan culture that predated christianity in russia. Russian christmas eve is the last meatless meal of advent as it is in ukraine poland and other slavic countries. Shop for russian christmas. See more ideas about christmas christmas decorations christmas holidays.

Sep 5 2020 explore denise morrison s board christmas decorating ideas followed by 11149 people on pinterest. Russian christmas ornaments and hand painted decorations russian christmas ornaments which can see in this category are made by hand in diffeent techniques and in different styles.