Elena Dushetchkina
THE RUSSIAN HOLIDAY TREE
History, Mythology, Literature
230 p.
250р.
ISBN 978-5-94380-120-4
Year of publication 2012
360 p.
Format 140х205
Paperback
Weight 380 g.
This book is the first ever study of the Russian New Year’s and Christmas Tree: its mythology and history. Concerned with three centuries of the holiday tree’s fascinating, contradictory, and sometimes tragic history, and based upon a wide array of historical, folkloric, literary and memoir sources, the study will be of interest to scholars as well as to the broader reading public