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Russian Ecclesiastical and National Festivals

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Dates rendered in the Old Style. See the Handbook, page lxi

"In addition to these may be mentioned the Friday and Saturday of 'Butter Week' (i.e. the week before Lent), the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week, the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday of Easter week, Ascension Day, Whitsunday, and Whit Monday."

Contents of this path:

  1. New Year's Day
  2. Epiphany and Jordan Festival
  3. Purification of the Virgin
  4. Annunciation
  5. Saint's day of the Tzarina (St. George)
  6. Birthday of the Tzar
  7. Festival of the Transference of the Relics of St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker
  8. Coronation
  9. Birthday of the Tzarina
  10. Feast of Saints Peter & Paul
  11. Saint's day of the Dowager Empress
  12. Birthday of the Tzarevitch Alexis Nikolayevitch
  13. Transfiguration
  14. Assumption
  15. Beheading of John the Baptist
  16. St. Alexander Nevski
  17. Nativity of the Virgin
  18. Elevation of the Cross
  19. Feast of St. John the Evangelist
  20. Protection and Intercession of the Virgin
  21. Saint's day of the Tzarevitch
  22. Accession of Tzar Nicholas II
  23. Festival of the Wonder-Working Ikon of the Kazan Virgin
  24. Birthday of the Dowager Empress
  25. Presentation of the Virgin
  26. Festival of St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker and saint's day of the Tzar
  27. Christmas