Holiday in Russian folk style. Russian feast

A party in Russian folk style is a great choice for those who want to have fun from the heart and go back several centuries. This evening, which is sure to be remembered and enjoyed by everyone, can be organized by your own efforts, you just need to take into account some points.

Interior decoration in folk style

In order to create an atmosphere of ancient times in the room and turn it into a kind of old hut, the room should have a minimum of modern furniture and appliances. On the floor, you can lay a carpet with patterns and bear skins. The walls should be decorated with embroidered towels, Vologda lace products, pictures depicting scenes from folk life. There can also be shelves with clay figures and pots on the walls. In one corner of the room, you need to place a model of a Russian stove, which is easy to make from ordinary cardboard and then paint with patterns. In another corner of the room, an iconostasis should be hung and a large table placed near it. It should be covered with a beautiful tablecloth and dishes decorated with decorative patterns in the style of Khokhloma or Gzhel painting should be placed on it. There must be a samovar on the table.

Traditional Russian costumes

Girls invited to a party in Russian folk style should dress up in traditional clothes of those times. It can be a white loose shirt with embroidery on the sleeves, a bright spacious sundress, and red or dark shoes or boots on your feet. A colored ribbon or kokoshnik should be put on the head, which can be cut out of cardboard and covered with a beautiful fabric. Hair should be neatly gathered at the back or braided. Accessories should be bright and catchy: large beads, earrings, bracelets and brooches made of wood, stones and beads. Men are best to wear white shirts with red ornaments, tied with scarlet belts with tassels at the ends, dark trousers and shoes. On the head there should be a cap, decorated on the side with a bright live or artificial flower.

Folk food and drinks

The menu of a Russian folk-style party should have a lot of delicious traditional dishes and drinks. For the first, you should serve cabbage soup, pickle or okroshka. Homemade pickles, mushrooms, herring, jellied fish, baked meat are suitable as snacks and meat dishes. From the main dishes, you can cook dumplings, potatoes, a baked goose with apples or a pig. There should also be a lot of pies with various salty and sweet fillings, pancakes with cottage cheese and red caviar on the table. From drinks, it is better to choose compote, kvass and beer. After guests have tasted these dishes, they can be served dessert: fragrant tea from a samovar with honey, jam, dryers, gingerbread and pancakes.

Entertainment and festivities

As an entertainment, you can arrange fun dances for guests to folk music. All guests will enjoy performing traditional dances: “Lady”, “Kamarinskaya”, “Yablochko”, “Kazachok”. You should also arrange a competition for the best performance of folk songs and ditties, and award the winners with sweet or other interesting prizes. Guests can also play funny traditional Russian games: fanta, brook, cat and mouse, burners and others. Men can boast of their heroic strength by participating in arm wrestling and tug of war.

A party in Russian folk style will surely please your guests with delicious dishes and drinks, easy communication and fun games and fun.

To organize such a holiday, it is enough to inform the guests and those present about the simplest dress code - every man will find a colored shirt or vest in his wardrobe, and a woman - a simple dress or a painted scarf. And it’s not difficult at all to arrange a photo zone with the help of rented decor items - the studio has everything you need for any event!

Rent accessories will simplify the organization of the celebration and allow you to hold it at the highest level!

• Original ideas for a photo zone will add zest to the holiday. Decorate the hall with the help of several art objects - and the idea is fresh and convenient in execution: these can be attributes of rural life that will organically fit into the interior of the hall.
• Wooden racks for various utensils look beautiful, as well as wattle fences, with which you can visually enclose the space of the holiday. Flowers, pots are hung on wattle fences, ribbons and wreaths of flowers are fixed on them.
• A wooden frame will organically complement the atmosphere: against the background of such a wall, you can not only take pictures, but also use it to hang posters, banners, postcards, cartoons, drawings, paraphernalia for competitions.
• A fake cart with replicas of vegetables, painted scarves and a haystack will look interesting and unusual. Complement the picture wreaths of multi-colored artificial flowers.
• Wooden furniture will also look natural - tables, chairs and benches. All products are of decent quality and are made of durable, natural materials. The cart can be included in a larger project - the Russian Izba photo zone: this is a real corner of Russian housing with all the same attributes.
• Antique-styled pointers will allow you to correctly direct the flow of guests, and wooden wheels placed against the wall will only complement the overall surroundings.
• Russian sledges, decorative barrels, as well as growth figures of nesting dolls will decorate the room. Felt boots and earflaps laid out in the area of ​​the photo zone look original: guests will be pleased with painted scarves, bright flowers and all sorts of trifles stylized in the Russian style.
• In terms of implementing the idea of ​​holding an ethnic-style party, you can not only beautifully arrange plants in flowerpots and tubs, spread haystacks and rural household items on the floor. At the request of the client, the company's specialists will be able to create the missing decor, including images and posters, banners, plywood attributes of the holiday.
• Organization of an event with rented items and an aesthetic photo zone will exceed all your expectations and will cost a very modest amount!

Entrusting the design of your holiday in Russian style professionals from the Moscow studio "Decor Rent", you prefer a clear organization in preparation for your event. Studio specialists guarantee the presence of many interesting, original interior items! This is not only a beautiful photo zone and a solemn view of the place of celebration, but also a lot of pleasant surprises, unforgettable, unique impressions for all guests and those present!

The table is bursting with delicious treats, groovy music and endless Slavic fun dizzy. Fun, noisy and so cordial! Glorious fellows and red girls, a party in Russian folk style is in no way inferior to any newfangled theme. And what bright and colorful photos will remain as a memory of a birthday, a bachelorette party or just a party in a friendly company!

Decor

There are no special difficulties, but there are a lot of details. Ask your friends to sort out the mezzanines and country supplies - for sure there is something suitable for decorating in Russian folk style.

If not, arm yourself with cardboard and paints, print and glue the images. Buy wallpapers, paper, napkins and fabrics with national patterns. Suitable for decor:

• wild flowers, sunflowers, poppies, straw, bouquets of ears;

• bundles of bagels, onions and garlic, rowan beads, aromatic herbs in bouquets or bags;

• wicker, earthenware and wooden utensils, barrels and tubs, pots and, of course, a painted samovar;

• to hide unsuitable wallpapers, Pavlovo-Posad shawls and Zhostovo trays are ideal;

• Bast shoes can be hung on the walls or used together with felt boots as vases for compositions;

• nesting dolls, wood carvings (toys, dishes, paintings), real Khokhloma and Gzhel will not only add Russian folk flavor to the room. But they will certainly attract the attention of party guests, so you can arrange a mini-exhibition;

• cardboard "claws", eyes from an old soft toy, a few cheap rugs with a long pile. Cut, sew from the inside - bear skins are ready;

• weave a decorative fence from twigs. Miniature, as part of the compositions;

• ask your friends for "grandmother's" striped rugs. They will fit perfectly, and they will divert attention from modern parquet;

• balalaikas, psaltery, spoons, bells, bayan, etc. Of course, finding real tools is difficult, but making cardboard and coloring is easy. Useful for photos and artistic scenarios - they will add entourage.

The stove is a chic photo zone for a themed party in Russian folk style! For example, cardboard, painted or photo wallpaper. But we recommend a partially functional option:

• Rectangular table, the most common. Cover the perimeter to the floor with thick cardboard or plywood on all sides;

• Cut out from the "facade", near the floor, a semicircle-furnace. Attach a paper "fire", put a few logs, put a cast iron;

• Make a pipe out of the box, glue it to the table top with tape;

• Paste everything with white wallpaper under stone, plaster;

• Decorate the "oven" with floral ornaments, such as wallpaper piping.

On such a stove, you can pose for a photo (lying straight or sitting, like Emelya!) Or put treats on it. It will turn out well, very atmospheric!

Invitation

Of course, in the Russian folk style - an imitation of the ancient Slavic font and the appeal of the prince-princess or the boyar-boyar, the synonyms are party - festivities, contests - fun, dancing - dancing to ditties.

And it's possible like this:

We sincerely ask you to visit us,
Come, honest people!
We will sing and dance until the night
Al until morning, how will it go! (time, place and dress code on the back).

There are a lot of options for designing invitations. For example, you can print the basis for a postcard under Gzhel, Khokhloma, or another type of Russian folk painting. Make a cardboard balalaika, oven, bast shoes. Or button accordion: two rectangles with an accordion of paper inside. Just write the text of the invitation first, and then fold the leaf.

Funny postcard-matryoshka, consisting of several pages(opens like a book, usually). The text is divided into parts: to read it, you need to scroll through the "matryoshka" to the end.

Suits

Perhaps this is the most time-consuming part, if you want not just styling, but Russian folk "historicism" in clothes. You will have to prepare for the party ahead of time, sew something, look for something in the shops. You can use the rental of costumes - contact the agency or local recreation center.

Do not forget to pick up shoes - closed shoes, short boots. Let the guys wear simple shoes. It is difficult to get bast shoes, and it is not convenient for everyone to walk in them. “Kirzachis” are also suitable, but it will be hot for your feet in them, especially if the party is held indoors (you can take a few photos and change shoes).

We offer the least labor-intensive options:

• Modern clothes with patterns or ornaments in Russian folk style. Dresses, tunics, sundresses and even jumpsuits with a recognizable pattern;

• Long plain sundresses of a free cut. Color to choose from - blue, red, green, yellow;

• The same sundress, but with wide straps, ethnic ornament (can be sewn over the purchased clothes edging). Underneath is a tunic with wide sleeves gathered at the wrists with an elastic band.

Russian folk style is emphasized by large earrings and beads, a long braid(own or artificial), headband. It is easy to make kokoshniks from the base cardboard and bright fabric (decorate with embroidery, ornaments, beads).

Clothing for guys - light summer or regular dark / striped trousers, a shirt for release, a belt or sash, a cap. Suitable linen or cotton men's tunics. At the end of the article, we will tell you how to easily sew a real blouse for a Russian folk party.

We sew a men's shirt-kosovorotka

• linen or cotton, fairly dense;
• buttons or lace on the collar;
• braid with ethnic pattern. If you are sewing several shirts, for all men, then buy a different braid, you can match the color of the dresses of their companions. Belt - a strip of fabric (the same that goes on a shirt) or braid.

The shirt is loose, but you need to imagine the approximate size. The main thing is not to miscalculate with the length of the sleeves. You can sew without a machine, with a reverse seam (if there is no machine).

Pattern elementary:

Detail 1- rectangle, "body". Shirt length x 2. Width in dimensions (waist in the most “pot-bellied” place and an allowance so that the shirt sits freely). Fold the part in half, mark the neck, cut it out.

Details 2- sleeves, rectangles. Desired sleeve width, multiplied by two.

Line 3- a slit so that you can put on a shirt over your head. It must be on the side (that's why the shirt is called a kosovorotka).

• Sew sleeves to part 1;
• Fold the shirt along the line, as in the picture;
• Sew on the sides of the "body", then the sleeves;
• Decorate all sections (bottom, cuffs, neck) with colored braid;
• Lace up or sew on buttons along the neckline (line 3). But first, decorate all sections (throat, sleeves and bottom) with colored braid. All! Your men will surely be glad that you have saved them from having to search for a costume for a Russian folk party!

Menu

Treats are hearty, plentiful and for every taste! The table should literally burst with variety in the menu of fish, meat and vegetable dishes - a traditional feast.

Several options for keeping the style (original Russian folk treats):

• game, porridge with mushrooms or meat, roasted pig, okroshka, casserole, goose in apples, roast;

• jellied or baked fish, caviar;

• a variety of pickles and marinades (cabbage with cranberries, vegetables and mushrooms, pickled apples);

• berries, jam and jam, pancakes and bagels, cheesecakes and pies, kalachi and kulebyaki.

If you are celebrating a birthday, order a cake in the Russian folk style - a chic surprise for the party guests and the birthday boy!

Enough and a couple of themed "crown" dishes. Or you can generally arrange a buffet table by spreading cereals, game and roasts in miniature baskets / tartlets. It will turn out interesting and very tasty! And on the "sing-dance" forces will remain.

Do not forget about table decoration - a samovar, painted or simple rustic dishes, national patterns on tablecloths, napkins. But the main decoration should be the dishes themselves.

Consider drinks too. to keep the theme. Certainly, mead(easy to make yourself, but it will take 5 days to ferment), vodka (change labels or pour into decanters) and kvass(in pot-bellied earthenware jars). If you can find an oak barrel and a traditional ladle, use it to pour beer at least at the beginning, for the atmosphere. From non-alcoholic - herbal teas, compotes and juices.

Entertainment

Noisy festivities until you drop - that's the whole scenario of a party in Russian folk style, and you don't need to invent any plots. Just alternate active contests and quizzes so that guests can take a breath. We offer several activities.

Turnip(you just need something to grab on to).

This is a test of strength, traditionally for men. But, as they say, there are women in Russian villages. So optional.

"Turnip" grabs a pole (or something else that definitely can't be moved). One person grabs him by the waist and pulls the turnip from the garden. Everyone counts to five. Survived? Another clings to the waist of the first. The winner is the one who can withstand the longest line of "pullers" for five seconds.

Pan(on the floor or ground you need to designate a circle with half a meter in diameter).

Two teams (for example, peasants and boyars). Give guests a minute to remember which team is on which, or tie two-color ribbons on the sleeves. Everyone stands around the “frying pan” so that the participants are distributed through one, friend-foreign-own player.

Everyone is dancing in a circle. The music stops. You need to quickly push the player of the other team to the "frying pan". Whoever gets in first is out. The team that has the numerical superiority of those remaining in the round dance wins.

Include Russian folk dances in the party script: Kamarinskaya, Trepak, Cossack, Kalinka, etc., there are more than two dozen of them, only the most popular ones! Don't forget to download the right music and watch the basic moves to show them to your guests.

Svayka(nail or dart, metal ring or styling)

This is a competition for accuracy, competition in teams or one at a time. Place a ring the size of a large apple on the foam (if you're indoors) or on the ground. Three attempts, the goal is to throw the "spear" so that it sticks in the area indicated by the ring. First, they throw from two steps, then from three, etc., until the winner is revealed.

Swan, crayfish and pike(ropes or strong ropes)

According to the scenario, the party guests are divided into threes, and then - as you like. You can identify the winners in each trio. Or continue the game until the end until there is only one winner.

Make "folds" out of three ropes. Loose ends must be tied around the waist of each of the three participants. Now all three are "pulling the cart" in their direction. The winner will be the one who "dragged" two, i.e. dragged them along for a bit.

Three quizzes

• Guess a fairy tale, a fairy tale character by description:
  • an elderly cannibal with a prosthesis (Baba Yaga);
  • a person of blue blood, together with an accomplice, a talking ancestor of a person’s best friend, violate article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (the fairy tale Ivan Tsarevich and the gray wolf);
  • the hero of many fabulous "quests". He wins thanks to non-standard solutions, although by nature he is slightly deprived of intelligence (Ivan the Fool).

• Guess the Russian folk instrument from the photo(musical, handicraft) and kitchen, household utensils. Print it out, title on the back. If the party guests find it difficult to answer, let them try to guess the purpose of the tool / household item;

• Guess the meaning of the old Russian word. Use the online dictionary for selection. Examples: scolding - war, conversation - shop, admiration - kidnapping or theft. Choose with meaning, unexpected meanings (in general, not just furious something).

Do not forget about gifts / awards for all guests of the party. It can be any little things in the Russian folk style - amulets (herbal capsules, horseshoes, houses), painted dishes (cups, spoons), caskets or beads, etc.

The offers of event agencies are full of all kinds of events, the themes of which relate to cultures and traditions unfamiliar to us. Russian folk style unfairly relegated to the background. So why not recreate old traditions and have fun in the images of brave guys and Russian beauties?

How to invite guests in Russian style?

For any holiday, the theme of which is Russian traditions, the ideal invitation would be a postcard decorated with Khokhloma, Gzhel painting. And you can put the text in a nesting doll - you get an unusual invitation, and an excellent souvenir that can set guests on the right wave.

Where and how to organize fun?

The basic rule for a Russian party is the bigger the room, the better. Ideally, such festivities should take place in the open air in nature or on the territory of a country cottage.

To recreate the picture of past years and impregnate the atmosphere with a real Russian spirit, you need to add a certain number of details to the decor of the room: bundles of straw, bear skins on the floor and on the walls, beautifully arranged wicker baskets, nesting dolls and caskets. Dishes on the tables should be wooden and earthenware. Tables and chairs can be covered with burlap, canvas, and wooden lampshades can be hung from the ceiling.

Do not forget to emphasize the style of your party with fabrics with patterns in Russian folk style.

Chairs, a festive table, walls can be decorated with such patterns, even waiters can have a uniform with elements of such a pattern, however, however, do not overdo it with patterns! There should be one leader, the rest can only partially supplement it in the design details.

What outfit to choose for a Russian folk party?

There are two ways to decide the dress code for a Russian-style party. The first is an authentic outfit that belongs to folk costumes, recreated in its original form. The second is to dress in modern clothes, stylized as folk. Today, many fashion designers offer quite stylish and comfortable things that will be appropriate not only for a themed event, but also for everyday life.

Girls should pay attention to sundresses and shirts with puffed sleeves. The head is decorated with a kokoshnik or ribbon. Be sure to collect hair in a braid, owners of short haircuts can think about false hair.

The approximate composition of a suit for guys looks like this: wide loose pants, an embroidered satin shirt and a scarlet sash. A cap with a flower on the head will complement the image.

What to serve on the table in Russian style?

Russian cuisine has always been distinguished not only by its unique flavor, but also by delicious and hearty dishes. Serve roasted poultry or roasted pig. For meat, you can cook potatoes, mushrooms. All kinds of pickles must be present on the table: tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage. From sweets: gingerbread, bagels, cranberries in sugar, jam.

Drinks that were popular in Rus': kvass, mead. Of the “stronger” options - vodka, of course. Organize a real tea party behind a samovar.

For table setting, tablecloths with a Russian folklore pattern will come in handy, the dishes can be wooden, and in the middle of the table there is a huge samovar, all this will certainly complete the interior design of your evening.

What music to dance to and how to have fun?

The musical accompaniment of the evening is Russian folk songs that can be found in the recording (the ensemble "Golden Ring", for example), or invite a folk group that will perform several numbers live. If the guests of the holiday are young people, then order a DJ who will make excellent dance hits based on folk songs.

A Russian person likes to have fun, so entertainment should be appropriate. Arrange a tug of war, and, despite the fact that this is a purely male entertainment, attract girls to the exciting action - it will be a lot of fun!

Another interesting competition about the bath! To carry it out, you need to prepare all kinds of equipment that you need to go to the bathhouse: brooms, basins, sheets, hats for the steam room. Several players must dance to an incendiary melody, but at the same time “steam” with a broom. At a certain point, the music stops, and then the players must very quickly pull on their hats, wrap themselves in a sheet and flop into the basin. Whoever is faster wins!

From quiet entertainment, a quiz on knowledge of Russian culture and traditions is suitable - an excellent break between music and dance marathons. In addition, guests will also like contests in which you need to remember Russian folk ditties and songs. Give prizes to the winners and let them be objects of Russian folk art.

A Russian-style party is not only fun, joy and dancing, it is a kind of tribute to the traditions and culture of our country. So let's popularize what is so often forgotten. Our ancestors knew how to have fun, let's learn from them?

A short plan for preparing for a disco party

If after this article you feel that the party will be necessarily in the Russian style, we suggest moving from words to actions.

Answer yourself the first most important question: we will organize it ourselves or order it on a turnkey basis.

If you decide to order a turnkey party, the issue of choosing a quality performer is very acute, use our services to greatly simplify your task.

If you are confident in your abilities, we offer you a short thesis plan to help you, which will help you keep your finger on the pulse and not forget anything when preparing. Copy, print it in Word and go! Disco disco!

1. If the party was decided by the company, determine who will be responsible for preparing the party (one or more people, if several, determine who will be the coordinator) and distribute tasks according to this list.
2. Make a preliminary list of party participants.
3. Call or meet with each to clarify the preliminary list of participants.
4. Determine the date and time of the party.
5. Determine the budget that you are ready to spend on the party (the solution of all subsequent issues will largely depend on this amount)
6. Solve the issue of financing (who, in what amount, when and how will pay all the costs of preparing and conducting)
7. If you plan to fully match the style of the party, the issue of Russian folk attire for becomes one of the important preparation items on the list of each participant. Find costume rental studios and give each party member a memo with addresses and phone numbers (this way you can avoid excuses like “I didn’t know where to find the right outfit ...”)
8. Decide where you intend to hold the party (restaurant, office, yacht, country complex, etc.). To solve this issue easier, leave a request on the site indicating that a party in the Russian folk style is planned, for sure, you will be answered by venues that not only have experience in organizing such a style, but were also originally conceived as establishments in the Russian style, which means interior plan 100% meeting your requirements. Or maybe someone is organizing a similar party in the near future, then from the entire list of things you just have to remember to come to the address on the day of the party.
9. What dishes / drinks should be on your table? Who prefers what?
10. Consider the issue of transport and delivery of participants home.
11. Decide who will be responsible for decorating the space. If you plan to do everything on your own, decide on the decoration elements, it is best that they be ready at least 1 week before the event. If you rely on the experience of professionals, leave a request on the site, you will be offered not only design options, but also demonstrate the existing decoration elements. You can choose the best performer for quality and price.
12. Consider the entertainment part. Which contests and competitions attract your friends and which don't? Use our contests section to quickly solve this problem.

eventspro wishes you a super disco drive!

Red girls and glorious heroes, remember the traditions of the people? Let's rest so that the devils in hell become unbearable? Noisy Russian parties in folk style - this is general fun, loud songs, ditties, Slavic fun and revelry to the fullest! Let's measure strength and ingenuity, arrange a feast for the whole world!

A peasant yard, a Russian hut, royal mansions or a boyar tower? The first option is ideal for a holiday in the fresh air - in nature or in the courtyard of a private house. To create an atmosphere, decorate the perimeter with a fake wattle fence (a fence made of willow, hollow or willow branches), sheaves of hay, figurines or images of livestock. In the distance or near the house "exhibition" - a Russian party with a contest "Guess what it is and what it was used for?". Tools (carded, scraper and adze, hoe, etc.) can be drawn and cut out of cardboard.

Peasant hut - earthenware and wooden rough dishes, linen or hemp fabrics, wild flowers, bast shoes and felt boots, barrels and tubs, rough unhewn furniture. The queen of the house (Russian stove) can be drawn or made from cardboard. Boyarsky tower - Khokhloma, "bear" skins, wide long benches, feather beds with pyramids. The royal party in the Russian folk style is a decoration rich in silver, gold and stones, thin cotton or silk tablecloths, carved furniture, shelves with expensive dishes and clay figurines on the walls.

Suitable for decoration:

• garlands of dried mushrooms, berries and fruits, onions and garlic. Bunches of fragrant herbs and sprigs of mountain ash, flowering apple trees, cherries;

• painted nesting dolls, caskets, chests. A large chest can be left open, putting costume elements inside, so that guests can choose accessories to their taste;

• wooden utensils, stavets or tubs, baskets and tubs. The original decor is a cut plastic bottle with wild flowers inserted into a felt boot or into a tub (if the tub is wide, the bottles are placed tightly so as not to stagger);

• stylized scarves, shawls, head coverings.

Do not try to use as many decorative elements as possible. Enough of a few details, but well thought out and sustained in the same style. For example, Gzhel and Khokhloma, coarse wooden and fine workmanship, unbleached linen and fine fabrics do not go well together.

Suits

For a theme party, Russian-style costumes include a peasant dress, a boyar caftan, a royal outfit, and a hero’s chain mail. Therefore, in the invitation, specify the dress code if you want good people to be from the same class. You can arrange a fair or a folk festival, where all the honest people had fun on an equal footing:

We invite queens and kings,
Knights and heroes,
funny buffoons,
Peasant and boyars,
Whether you are a prince or a milker!

The simplest version of a women's suit consists of a white shirt with wide sleeves (tunic, ethnic ornament on the collar, hem and sleeves) and a long sundress (red, yellow, blue, green). On the head there is a wreath, ribbon or kokoshnik (can be made of cardboard, covered with fabric and decorated with beads), on the legs there are bright little laces (shoes or boots). Large jewelry made of stones, beads, beads, blackened silver.

For men- a wide belted shirt with wide sleeves (do not forget about the ornament), loose dark pants (plain or longitudinal stripes). Trousers were tucked into boots or gathered down with a braid of onuchi or bast shoes. So that the strong half of humanity does not feel constrained at a Russian party, you can wear loose trousers of standard length and simple dark-colored shoes.

Stylized costumes for leading and most active guests:

Or even like this - modern, comfortable and beautiful:

Menu

To withstand the atmosphere, set the table with the simplest dishes or vases with recognizable ornaments, plant motifs, rural animals (for example, roosters surrounded by flowers - Gorodetskaya, Petrikovskaya painting). The main decoration of the table is a brilliant samovar, bursting with heat. If there is no place for a samovar on the common table, put it against the wall on a small table. Around the samovar there was jam and jam in pot-bellied jars, candied fruits and berries, dryers and gingerbread, cockerels (lollipops).

At festivities in the Russian folk style, the table should burst with treats. A party can cost a pretty penny or turn out to be very economical, depending on which dishes of Slavic cuisine to choose:

• goose in apples, chicken, game, roasted pig;

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• jellied or baked sturgeon, black and red game;

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• roast with mushrooms, porridge with meat or mushrooms, okroshka, casserole, cabbage soup;

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• salted milk mushrooms and boletus, tomatoes and cucumbers, pickled apples, sauerkraut with cranberries;

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• pies, rolls, cheesecakes, pies, pancakes and pancakes, carols, bagels;

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• baked or boiled potatoes, steamed turnip, herring;

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• "our" fruits and berries. You can put a dish with pineapples, bananas, kiwi, etc., with a comic sign “Gifts to the light prince from the Byzantine ambassador” or “Beware of foreign fruits!”.

From drinks– traditional vodka and mead. Crazy mash and hoppy beer can be poured with a ladle with a spout straight from an oak barrel! Contrary to popular belief, the Slavs drank "drunk" drinks only on these occasions: a wedding, a military victory, the death of a family member, the birth of a child. Therefore, the party does not have to turn into a banal booze, add low-alcohol drinks to the menu - birch tree (fermented birch sap with sugar), kvass, sat (fermented honey water). From non-alcoholic - non-hop kvass, compotes and juices from fruits, berries and vegetables, herbal teas.

Entertainment

In addition to a noisy feast, festivities in Russian traditions necessarily include games of ingenuity, courage and, of course, strength. We will not offer to beat each other with a log or beat with fists until one falls.

1. But dancing is a sacred thing! Apple, Cossack, Kamarinskaya, mistress, Kalinka and Metelitsa - invite guests to repeat the movements of the host (animator) or dancer on the video. Do not forget to prepare Russian music for the party, in original or modern version.

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2. Invite guests to guess the next line of the folk song (prepare the text or audio cut in advance). Or let them guess the name of the musical instrument. Instead of real instruments, use drawings, photos or toy miniatures: horn and flute, domra and balalaika, palms and rattle, rubel, bells, etc.

3. The serpent Gorynych fell to taste the heroic silushka - beware, evil spirits, Russian peasants! According to the scenario of the party, the guests are divided into two teams. Tie balloons to the back of a chair (how many people are in the team, so many balloons). Prepare two wooden swords. Participants from each team must quickly “cut off Gorynych’s head” with a sword, i.e. pop one balloon. Happened? Pass the sword to the next participant (the team whose Gorynych fell faster wins). Guests will swing the stick quite actively, so place chairs at arm's length plus the length of the sword.

4. Invite the good fellows to surprise the people with their accuracy. The game "Pile" - a metal ring on the ground (or on a piece of foam), a thin metal pointed rod 15 cm (you can just use a large nail or a heavy dart). The larger the ring, the farther you need to stand. The glorious knight must throw a "spear", hitting the ring.

The games "Skovoroda" and "Drunk Carter" are held under cheerful Russian songs. For parties in a large room (with a dance floor) or outdoors.

5. "Frying pan" - a circle marked on the ground (half). You can draw with chalk or paint, draw in the soil, lay out with a ribbon - whatever you like. The diameter of the circle is slightly less than the diameter of the round dance of the participants. All guests are divided into two teams and form a round dance so as to stand through one (a member of the boyar team is a member of the peasant team, etc.). Music sounds, the round dance moves in a circle. Suddenly, the music stops - the team members are trying to "fry" the opponents, pulling them by the hands into the "frying pan" (into the circle). Stepped on the "frying pan" - dropped out of the game.

6. To play the "drunk carter" you will need three ropes about two meters long. The ends of the ropes are tightly tied together. Loose ends are wrapped around the waist of three participants. At the command of the “horse of a drunken driver,” the rod is pulled in different directions. The winner is the one who pulls the other two participants to his side. There can be several “triples”, the winners of the “triples” compete among themselves until the strongest “horse” is determined.

At the end of the party, give out Russian-style gifts to the most active participants or memorable presents to all those invited: nesting dolls, wooden spoons, scarves, beads and ribbons for girls, carvings, painted boxes.

7. To play "Turnip" you need a strong pole or something solid that you can tenaciously grab onto. The “turnip” hugs the pole with his arms and legs, the rest of the participants line up in a chain, holding each other by the waist, and try to “pull out the turnip”. Each participant can be a “turnip”, the leader determines the winner (who lasted longer, count aloud or use a stopwatch).