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December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas 2008!
Charles Ganske


The Kirov Ballet performing Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker at the
Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia

Click on the extended post for links to other Russia Blog Christmas posts!

Christmas in My Country by Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky (December 25, 2007)

S Rozdestvom Khristovym from Russia! (January 7, 2007)

Christmas Cheer in Russia (December 28, 2006)

America More Soviet than USSR? (No "War on Christmas in Russia"!) (December 20, 2005)

Posted by Charles Ganske on December 24, 2008 8:00 PM |



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merry christmas....
From indonesian people....

Posted by: Artha Dinata | December 26, 2008 9:33 PM

I saw the Nutcracker at the Mikhailovsky Theatre this winter and it rocked. The quality has only improved since the good old days. Except that they dressed the Nutcracker in hot pink, but even that wasn't so bad.

Posted by: Alec L | January 27, 2009 9:05 PM

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