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Day of Slavic Literature and Culture is celebrated in Russia and abroad

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Day of Slavic Literature and Culture is celebrated in Russia and abroad


24.05.2019

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The Day of Slavic Literature and Culture is celebrated on Friday, May 24, TASS reports. It is dedicated to the Day of Saints Cyril and Methodius. These monks developed the first known Slavic alphabet for writing Orthodox liturgical texts in Old Slavonic. It was called Cyrillic. Then it was replaced by a new alphabet, which became the basis for writing in many Slavic languages. 

In Russia, this day was initially celebrated only by Russian Orthodox Church. It was celebrated at the state level in the middle of the 19th century for the first time, when Slavic alphabet was 1000 years old. In the USSR, it was first noted in the 1980s. 

The main celebrations will take place on the Red Square in Moscow. The program of the World We Live In concert will include performances of 30 choirs. About a thousand people will appear on the scene. Oleg Gazmanov and Nadezhda Babkina will join the creative teams. Spiritual chants, opera arias, folk and pop songs will be performed. 

Head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill will congratulate the audience and also lead the divine service in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin. 

The main theme of the holiday is spiritual unity, the consolidation of Slavic peoples and the preservation of cultural heritage. Festive events will cover the whole country, and will also be held in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Belarus and Macedonia. Czech Republic and Slovakia celebrate the holiday on July 5th.

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