Last weekend, Moscow's Kolomenskoye Park hosted the fifth festival “Moscow — Cossack Village.” Guests were entertained by traditional songs and dances, they got acquainted with the rites. Those who were interested could try on Cossack costumes, visit a real kuren, a Cossack’s house, and of course, taste camp food in the 'Alley of Cossack Cuisine'. Representatives of 32 regions of Russia arrived to allow Muscovites to get acquainted with their way of life. “We have 12 sites. People of all ages will surely find uses for their creativity and learn more about the history of Cossacks. A Cossack is a belief in God, is service to the homeland, the protection of our homeland. And in our time, this is more important than ever,” Vitaly Suchkov, Deputy Head of the Department of national policy, inter-regional relations and tourism of Moscow city, said.
Before the grand opening of the festival, the chairman of the Synodal Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church on Interaction with Cossacks, Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk Kirill, sanctified the iconostasis of a marching church. “This camp tent will be presented to the Moscow Central Cossack Army, which will have a lot of field camps, and children's activities somewhere in nature, where they will live in tents, and there will be no church around. This church will be used as a camp church. The church can be quickly erected and disassembled,” Metropolitan said.
In addition, among the honorary guests of the event, Deputy Plenipotentiary Presidential Representative in the Central Federal District Andrey Yarin, Ataman of the Cossack Army Society 'Central Cossack Army' Ivan Mironov, and the rector of the First Cossack University Valentina Ivanova visited the event.
The festival was attended by 50 to 60 thousand Muscovites. Great excitement was caused by dzhigitovka. Cossacks have always been a pillar of Russia in the Caucasus. The Terek Cossack Army has recently celebrated its army festival. The Terek Army was represented by the Moscow office at the festival. “Originally, fraternity, feelings of friendship, strongly lies in the tradition of the Terek Cossacks. Therefore, there is a representative office of the Terek Cossack Army in Moscow. It is an official representative office, which has been operating for more than 15 years already. The structure of the representative office includes Terek Cossacks, who, by the will of fate, found themselves in Moscow, the Moscow Region. Who live here. At today's festival, there are about 30 people from the offices in Moscow and the Moscow Region, about 20 people from the offices in the Vladimir Region, again, Terek Cossacks, and about 50 people who came from Stavropol Territory to participate in this festival,” Evgeny Manchuk, Ataman of the Moscow representative office of the Terek Cossack Army Society, said.
