Moscow Tbilisoba

On October 4th 10 thousand people came to the Tbilisoba festival in Moscow. For a fourth year the Union of Georgians of Russia and the Hermitage Garden presented the cultural legacy of Georgia to Muscovites. There were dances, songs, wine, joy and traditional hospitality. The guests learned how to mould out of clay, to make felt, and to make clothes from it. A wine press was very popular; the most active participants of the festival, wearing high boots, pressed grapes. The juice produced was sold immediately. Many of the visitors had had Soviet childhoods and the taste of churchkhelas was familiar to everyone. The way the sweet is produced was shown at the festival as well. A real festival is a moment when all offences and troubles pass away; and from this point of view the Moscow Tbilisoba succeeded.