A Cossack festival was held in Kolomna. The festival of equestrian art of the Cossacks will be held in the Cossack village in Kolomenskoye

Photo: press service of the Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations of the city of Moscow.

Concerts of musical groups, demonstration performances with weapons and a demonstration of the art of horse riding, sports competitions and traditional cuisine, as well as master classes, multimedia exhibitions and a stanitsa fair - these and many other events will unfold at 11 venues of the VIII International Festival "Cossack Village Moscow". Such a bright and large-scale event will take place on the territory of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve on September 15. Its organizers said that the guests of the festival will see new and interesting things in 2018.

The best of the regions. The geography and popularity of the festival is growing every year. “If in the past years a little more than 30 regions took part in the festival, this year representatives of 44 regions of the country expressed their desire to participate in the festival. For the first time, the Primorsky and Kamchatka Territories, the Kaliningrad Region and the Republic of Ossetia will take part in it,” said Vitaly Suchkov, Head of the Moscow Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations. The main events of the festival will take place on the Main Stage - the State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after V.I. M. E. Pyatnitsky, the ensemble of the dance theater "Cossacks of Russia", the Moscow Cossack Choir, People's Artist of Russia Yuri Nazarov, participant in the project "Voice" Daria Volosevich. Among the "highlights" of the festival is the performance of the joint, of 250 people, the choir of students of Moscow State University of Technology. K. G. Razumovsky (First Cossack University). And on the Small Stage there will be a creative competition among Cossack groups from 30 regions of Russia. The best in four categories will be selected here: authentic and ethnographic Cossack group, folklore Cossack group, folk stage and Cossack dance.

Unity symbol. One of the central events is the consecration of the marching iconostasis and a solemn prayer service for all participants of the festival. It will be held by the responsible secretary of the Synodal Committee for Cooperation with the Cossacks, Father Timofey (Chaikin), together with the military priest of the Central Cossack Army, Father Mark (Kravchenko). The ceremony will start at 13.30. The iconostasis will be installed in the camp temple, which personifies the spiritual basis of the Cossacks. “This is not a tribute to fashion and not a desire to show folklore - this is a demonstration of the unity of the Cossacks,” said father Timofey. According to tradition, after the consecration, the camp temple will be transferred to the use of one of the regional departments of the Central Cossack Army.

Horse extreme. Within the framework of the "Cossack village" for the first time will be held the "Festival of the equestrian art of the Cossacks", the program of which includes personal and team competitions of riders and theatrical performance of participating clubs. More than 40 riders from five equestrian clubs will compete in the tournament. Among them are the team of the Horse Riding Center of Voronezh and the Voronezh Region and representatives of the KSK "Metelitsa" from Penza. The city of Krasnozavodsk near Moscow will be represented by the Yermak military sports club, the team of the Don Cossack Association in Moscow will represent the capital, and the Dovatortsy military-historical riding group will represent the Moscow Region. They will demonstrate tricks of four degrees of difficulty - from a simple stirrup stand to a head-down shoulder stand. As well as the most beautiful and no less extreme numbers - scissors, reverse drawing, circus spinner, Ural push.

Kitchen and crafts. Interest in one’s roots and traditions is growing: for example, according to Dmitry Ivanov, deputy ataman of the Central Cossack Host for cultural and educational activities, Cossack culture centers have been opened in 56 regions of the country. And during the festival, all guests will be able to get acquainted with traditional Cossack crafts at master classes. They will also be able to visit an exhibition of traditional Cossack kurens, a stanitsa fair that will bring together manufacturers of arts and crafts, and here you can taste dishes of Cossack cuisine. For young visitors there will be a playground with an animation program and traditional Cossack games.

When and where: September 15 from 11.00 to 20.00, Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve. For free.

This year, the eighth festival took place on September 15. The guests of the holiday were representatives of 44 regions. City, regional and farm Cossack societies from the central and southern parts of Russia, as well as from Siberia, represented the whole diversity of the way of life of the modern Cossacks. The festival is organized by the Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations of the city of Moscow together with the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs and the military Cossack society "Central Cossack Host".

On the banks of the Moskva River, spectators and participants of the Cossack village Moscow festival get into the cycle of traditions, customs, everyday life, feel the atmosphere of Cossack life. Combining various forms of the culture of the Cossacks, the celebration reflects the history of Russia, thereby awakening feelings of patriotism and pride in their country among all those present.

“We are very grateful to the chieftains of the registered Cossack troops that they help to arrange such a wonderful holiday every time. This year, the festival has 11 thematic venues. This is more than in previous years.”- said the head of the capital's department of national policy and interregional relations Vitaly Suchkov.

Cossack culture is closely connected with Orthodoxy, which is the spiritual basis of the Cossacks. That is why it is important that during the festival a camp temple was presented at one of the sites. Responsible Secretary of the Synodal Committee for Interaction with the Cossacks, Priest Timofey Chaikin, together with the military priest of the Central Cossack Army, rector of the Church of St. equal to ap. book. Vladimir at MPKU them. Sholokhov, Priest Mark Kravchenko performed a prayer service at the beginning of any work and consecrated the iconostasis for the camp church. Father Mark also took part in the council of atamans of the East Kazakhstan region of the Central Committee of the Conservatory, which took place before the start of the festival.

Cossacks are inconceivable without songs. Professional creative groups, folk and honored artists of Russia performed at the festival. The choir was presented by the First Cossack University named after Kirill Razumovsky, whose performance was one of the highlights of the holiday. The guests of the festival also liked demonstration performances on horseback, which were attended by: the team of the equestrian club "Metelitsa" from Penza, the equestrian team of the Don Cossacks in Moscow, the military-historical riding group "Dovatortsy", the team of the Voronezh Horse Riding Center and Military-patriotic equestrian club "Ermak". A total of more than 40 riders showed their skills.

A championship in barracks, the art of owning a saber, was held at a nearby site. Participants demonstrated felling techniques in motion and on the spot. The targets were wicker rods and water bottles.

The guests of the holiday also had access to: an exhibition of traditional Cossack kurens and handicraft structures, demonstrating the everyday life of the Cossacks; master classes on traditional Cossack craft; "stanitsa fair"; "interactive playground", where everyone could get acquainted with the methods of handling weapons, elements of equipment, traditional Cossack games. Not without cooking and tasting dishes of the national cuisine of the Cossacks. Each participant of the festival was able to get to know the Cossacks better and discover something new in their rich culture.

August 26, 2017 The 7th International Festival "Cossack Village Moscow" will be held at the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve.

The event dedicated to the unique culture and traditions of the Cossack people is held by the Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations of the city of Moscow together with the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs and the military Cossack society "Central Cossack Host". The Festival is aimed at strengthening interethnic relations in the multinational capital of Russia, developing cultural traditions and family values, at a deep understanding of the original culture of the Cossacks, their patriotic aspirations.

Among the 1300 participants of the Festival are registered and public Cossack organizations of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, educational institutions, creative teams from 28 constituent entities of the Russian Federation (including 63 folk amateur groups and performers, 12 professional and 15 children's groups with the participation of children aged 5 to 14 years old), sports clubs, craftsmen, historians and ethnographers.

A large concert program will be presented on the Main Stage of the Festival. Cossack creative teams from different regions of Russia will demonstrate their creativity: Moscow and the Moscow region, Bryansk, Voronezh, Vladimir, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, Ryazan, Kaluga, Astrakhan, Rostov, Volgograd regions, Stavropol and Perm regions, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic and the Republic Mordovia. The Republic of Belarus will present the Ensemble of Cossack song and dance "Mom likes it!" and Folk Vocal Ensemble "Minstreli". The novelty of this year will be the holding of the contest "The Best Cossack creative team" in two categories: "adult" and "children".

The key creative event of the Festival will be the performance of the State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after M.E. Pyatnitsky. In addition, guests will be pleased with bright performances by the laureate of international and all-Russian and, the participant of the Spasskaya Tower festival, the Moscow Cossack Choir, the laureate of all-Russian and international Anna Sizova, as well as the winner of the show “Voice. Children" Danila Pluzhnikov.

10 thematic areas of the event will fully reveal the brightest facets of the life and culture of the Cossacks. The festival will present activities that immerse the guests of the holiday in the atmosphere of the Cossack village. All those who came to Kolomenskoye on August 26 are waiting for performances of musical and dancing Cossack groups, a demonstration of weapons possession, sports competitions and dishes of traditional cuisine. The Festival will feature exciting workshops on traditional crafts of the Cossacks under the guidance of 30 honored folk craftsmen - weaving, coin stamping, blacksmithing. Exciting Cossack games await young visitors. Also within the framework of the event there will be competitions in tug-of-war, cutting with a sword and archery, designed to revive interest in traditional Cossack sports and leisure.

The novelty of the Festival this year will be an unprecedented song flash mob with the participation of the Moscow Cossack Choir, which will unite Cossacks from different regions and troops into a common Cossack choir.

The most important event of the Festival will be the illumination of the Cossack camp church by Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, Chairman of the Synodal Committee for Interaction with the Cossacks, and its transfer to the Moscow District Cossack Society.

Interest in the event is growing from year to year. It is expected that the festival will bring together about 75 thousand guests (last year the Festival was visited by 72 thousand people, in 2014 - 48 thousand, in 2015 - 57 thousand). Vitaly Suchkov, head of the Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations of the city of Moscow, readily speaks about the expansion of the boundaries of the Festival, its international status: “It is very important for us that the Cossack Village of Moscow become as interesting and attractive a holiday as possible. As we know, Cossacks also live abroad, and we are thinking that representatives of Cossacks who live outside our country, in far abroad countries, can also participate in our festival.”

This year the festival "Cossack village Moscow", which will be attended by representatives from 33 regions of Russia, promises to be the most spectacular in the history of the event. The venues of the festival will open for visitors at 11.00. The grand opening of the event will take place at 14.00.

In Moscow, in Kolomenskoye, which has the status of a museum-reserve, the VII International Festival "Cossack village Moscow" was held with great success on Saturday, August 26. Nevertheless, the venue was not chosen by chance - back in the middle of the 17th century, the Cossacks served here to protect the sovereign Alexei Mikhailovich in his country residence.

Over the seven years of its existence, the festival has gained momentum, has become truly international - this year the Cossacks at their forum welcomed guests not only from Belarus, Ukraine and Semirechie, but also representatives of Poland and Germany.

In general, the festival has become a unique meeting place for Cossacks from all over our vast country, whose borders (as everyone knows) were expanded by the Cossack pike.

This well-organized event of all-Russian and international significance was attended by tens of thousands of people, despite the expected downpour, which fell like a wall on the festival field in the evening. Various actions were organized for residents and guests of the capital: tasting dishes of traditional Cossack cuisine, selling various products made by Cossacks and for Cossacks, performances by the most famous Cossack folklore groups and performers.

At the same time, within the framework of the festival, the next stage of the competition in felling with a saber "Kazarla" and the competition in horse riding took place.

The festival was opened with a prayer service by Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, chairman of the Synodal Committee for Cooperation with the Cossacks.

But still, one place in the shopping malls of the Stanichnaya Fair attracted the Cossacks and guests of the festival more than anyone else - it was the tent of the Cossack Compound Trading House. It was not even so much about the goods presented by the partners of the Trading House (saddles, horse harness, whips, home smokehouses and cheese dairies, new camouflage under the DMB brand), master classes, which were immediately held, but about the fact that tents under No. 1, generic Cossacks from various public organizations gathered: the Union of Cossacks of Russia, SKVRiZ, MCC, VBKV. They were bound by strong friendship through joint service in various regions of our country, near and far abroad: Transnistria, Chechnya, Crimea, Novorossia and ... a new "hot" spot - Syria.

Priest Mark Kravchenko, military priest of the Central Control Commission for the Conservation of Gods, blessed the activities of the Trading House "Cossack Compound" and noted the range of goods that are currently very relevant in the personal subsidiary farms of the Cossacks.

Of course, it cannot be said that the accordion was a serious competitor to the two stages of the festival (large and small), but after the official part of the festival, when the distinguished guests had already left, true lovers of the Cossack song (maybe not always decent) gathered here at the tent of the Trading House who sang heartily and even danced to the "Cossack lezginka".

The event ended after dark. This forum once again proved that the unity of the modern Cossacks is quite possible, and those artificial barriers erected by officials are not a serious obstacle to communication and true friendship. Traditional Cossack values ​​will prevail over the foam that arose with the creation of the register, which did not give anything to simple, tribal Cossacks.

On September 15, 2018, the VIII International Festival "Cossack Village Moscow" will be held at the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve. This year, this great holiday will reopen its doors for all Muscovites and guests of the capital to acquaint them with the unique culture and traditions that the spirit of the Cossacks keeps in itself.

On the main stage of the festival amateur and professional creative groups will perform, including honored and people's artists of Russia. Guests of the festival will be able to plunge into the atmosphere of the Cossack holiday. The combined choir of the First Cossack University and the winner of the competitions of Cossack culture, the vocal ensemble "Cossack Village" will also perform on stage.

On the small stage there will be a creative competition in 4 categories:

The best authentic and ethnographic Cossack collective;

The best folklore Cossack group;

The best folk-stage group;

The best Cossack dance.

Teams from more than thirty regions of Russia will take part in the competition. Spectators expect all sorts of productions illustrating folk signs, proverbs, fairy tales and other folk traditions. In addition, everyone will be able to test their knowledge of the Cossack history by participating in mind games.

Also, student Cossack amateur performances of the First Cossack University will be performed on the small stage.

The festival guests will be able to get acquainted with the history of the Cossacks, including the history of modern Russian military Cossack societies, at a specially prepared exposition, including the screening of documentary and feature films, as well as a description of the exploits of the Cossacks participating in the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Great Patriotic War.

On the site of the festival, in the center of the built Cossack village, according to tradition, a camp temple will be installed, embodying the religious consciousness of the Cossacks.

Also on the territory of the festival will be presented the exposition of the First Cossack University "Ataman's House" (Cossack hut). The exposition will include a demonstration of Cossack cuisine, Cossack costume, Cossack crafts, fun and rituals, a presentation of the system of continuous Cossack education.

Within the framework of the festival, a parade of teams participating in the “Festival of Cossack Equestrian Art” will take place. The rite of seeing off a Cossack to the service of the guests will be shown by the Penza group of the Metelitsa equestrian club. There will also be exciting sports competitions in the following categories:

demonstration performances;

Overcoming obstacles;

Freestyle jigitovka;

Weapon possession.

Guests will be given master classes in traditional folk crafts: saddlery, coinage, basket weaving, pottery, resin jewelry making, wood carving and burning, knitting, etc.

The festival is held with the support of the Moscow Government for the eighth time and is one of the largest events that tell about the traditions and culture of the Cossacks.

The guests of honor of the festival will be the head of the Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations of the city of Moscow Vitaly Ivanovich Suchkov, Deputy Ataman of the Military Cossack Society "Central Cossack Army" for cultural and educational activities Dmitry Leonidovich Ivanov, Rector of the First Cossack University Valentina Nikolaevna Ivanova, Executive Secretary of the Synodal Committee for Cooperation with the Cossacks Father Timofey Chaikin, President of the All-Russian public organization for the development of traditional military art "Federation of felling with a saber" Kazarla " Nikolai Evgenievich Eremichev.

Opening hours of the festival venues: from 11:00 to 20:00.

Grand Opening Ceremony: 14:00