The international folk festival "Trinity Round Dances in Oryol Polesye" is an integral part of preservation and revival of a traditional folk culture of the Oryol region and the Turquoise ring of Russia, one of the most beautiful orthodox holidays which is brightly celebrated in the Oryol region already more than 20 years.
On June 12, 2022 the next XXIII International Folklore Festival "Trinity Round Dances in the Oryol Polesye" will take place. The best groups of the Oryol region, neighboring regions, and foreign countries will gather on the immense glade of the village Lgov in Khotynetsky district. The festive festivities open with mass round dances in the Trinity Meadow near the National Park "Orlovskoe Polesie".
This year there will be two stages, as well as a catwalk for the demonstration of models in traditional folk costumes. For the guests of the festival will be organized 12 local creative sites of various themes, 27 courtyards of municipalities, sports and entertainment, horseback riding, Russian swings, as well as a large parking area.
At 8:30 a.m. in the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in L'gov. The festive divine service will take place at 8:30 in the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in L'gov.
At 14.00 a solemn opening of a holiday is planned. The action will be preceded by "Trinity round dance".
At 14.20 a performance of ethnographic and folklore groups and guests of the holiday will start.
The concert program "Feast of Trinity - the Golden Veil" will begin at 14.40.
From 14.00 guests will wait for the zone of farmsteads, where each area of the region will present its traditions and cultural brands of territories.
At 14.20 the participants will enjoy the interactive round dances.
Throughout the festival, it will be possible to visit the zone of folk crafts and trades. Masters of folk arts and crafts from the Oryol and Kursk regions will present their works. They include embroidery Oryol spis, lacework, weaving, Pleshkov and Chernyshin clay toys, blackened pottery, rag dolls, weaving from plant materials, wood carving. Also there will be an exhibition-fair of arts and crafts from the regions of the Central Federal District.
From 15 hours the guests are waiting for the creative platforms:
- "Molodeotskaya" - mass competition of traditional games and amusements, demonstration performances of the youth public organization "Vyatichi",
- "L'gov Village Farmstead" - a presentation on the history of Trinity celebration in Orlovsky Polesye, a photo exhibition of the history of the holiday and a meeting with the oldest keepers of local traditions,
- "Maiden Secrets" - a puppet workshop on making "Cuckoo Dolls", master classes,
- a quiz game "Discover a secret - cut a prize",
- the folk action "The Birch Tree of Wishes", the #EthnoTrinity selfies marathon,
- reconstruction of Trinity rites performed by folk ensemble "Zaryanka" (Bryansk),
- Exhibition of healing herbs and flowers,
- "Oryol Dance" - a performance of everyday dances of the Oryol region,
- "Grandma's Farmstead" - an exhibition of cows from a private farm,
- "Fairytale Lukomorye" - "Russian swings", bibliocquest, entertaining game program, performances of puppet theaters.
- "Cossack Side" - demonstration of facts about the history of the Oryol Cossacks, demonstration performances of the Ledno equestrian school, horseback riding.
- The sports area "Ethno-sports" - lapta, rugby, tug-of-war, tug of war, hockey stick.
At 16.00 there will be a competition of mowers "Easy scythe in the hands of a young man" and a youth dance battle.
At the same time the presentation of modern ethno-collection and replicas of authentic samples of traditional folk costumes will start at the fashion podium. The traditions of wearing and the order of putting on a woman's costume and its elements will be presented in an interactive form, accompanied by the concert program "A Step into Ethnospace".
In addition, it will be possible to be photographed in folk costume.
From 16.00 to 19.00 there will be a concert "The stars of folk art at Trinity roundelays".
The finale will be festivities around the campfire at 20:30 and fireworks at 21:00.
10 facts about the National Park "Orlovskoe Polesie" and its surroundings:
1. The park was established in 1994
2 It is located on 78 thousand hectares in picturesque places of Znamensky and Khotynetsky districts
3 The forests of the park are the largest forests of Oryol region
4. The flora of the park consists of more than 940 species of plants, including 23 species included in the Red Book
5. There are 285 species of vertebrates including 89 of them listed in the Red Data Book
6. The visiting card of "Orlovsky Polesie" is the European bison which is included in the Red Book of Russia
7. The life and work of the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev is closely connected with the park. The heroes of his famous "Notes of the Hunter" lived in Polesie.
8. History of the park and its surroundings is associated with Russian byliny about Ilya Muromets and Nightingale Razboinik
9. The temple of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity, near where the holiday will be held, was built in the 18th century. It is one of the oldest temples of Orel region
10. In the village Ilyinskoe there is a museum "Turgenev Polesie", where unique household items, utensils and clothes of the peasants of the Oryol region of the late 19th century are collected.
The Oryol Region - Home of the Russian Bison
The Oryol Polesie National Park is home to the largest population of bison in Russia. Today almost 500 representatives of the ancient tribe of forest giants live there.
The unique landscape and even microclimate of Orlovsky Polesie is due to the heritage of ancient glaciers, especially the Moscow Glacier. Coniferous and coniferous-broadleaved forests are interspersed with areas of forest-steppe vegetation, typical taiga species neighbor representatives of steppe fauna.
Standing on the sandy sands, the park is unique in terms of diversity and abundance of fauna. Here you can find hohula, podaliria, great bittern, deer beetle, hazel dormouse or carpenter bee.
The majestic silence of the forest gave birth to the following lines by Turgenev: "The view of the vast, sky-hugging forest, the view of "Polesie" reminds one of the sea. And the impression is the same: the same pristine, untouched power spreads out wide and majestically in front of the viewer".
The characters from Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's "Notes of the Hunter" lived in Orlovskoye Polesie. According to legend, the park hides a large treasure of Kudeyar, a legendary robber and wizard, an ataman, a character of Russian folklore of the 16th century and brother of Ivan the Terrible.
The Battle Site of Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber
Byliny has told a legend that a defender of the Russian land hero Ilya Muromets defeated Nightingale the Robber in the riverheads Vytebet in the natural boundary Nine Oaks on the territory of the present national park "Orlovskoye Polesie".
From here, the bandit together with his gang attacked merchant caravans, which used the crossing to get from the Desna-Dnepr to the Oka-Volga basin.
The legend says that somewhere here, on the outskirts of the village of Nine Oaks, after a clash with Nightingale the Robber, Ilya Muromets lost his heroic sword.
The L'gov village was first mentioned in the scribe books in 1626-1627. But the common man knows it from the work of Ivan Turgenev "Notes of the Hunter": "L'gov is a big steppe village with a very old stone one-headed church and two mills on the swampy Rosota river. This river five versts away from L'gov turns into a wide pond, which is overgrown with dense reeds, orlovskoi - mayer, at the edges and in some places in the middle. On this pond, in the backwaters or lulls between the reeds, countless ducks of all possible species were bred and kept: mallards, half-mallards, pintails, teals, diving ducks, etc.".
Ivan Sergeyevich loved to hunt here, and, incidentally, an amusing incident happened to him on the L'gov pond. The boat the hunters were on was leaking water little by little. It was being poured out of a bucket. Having been carried away by the successful shooting, they stopped emptying the water, the boat got full of water and overturned when the hunters were taking the killed duck out of the lake. Fortunately, it didn't happen in deep water, and the adventure ended safely.
About the Bitch's house
The L'gov villagers cherish the legend of the preserved house, where the prototype of Gerasim from "Mumu" lived, which they gladly show to guests and tourists.
The project is aimed at revival and preservation of folklore and ethnographic traditions of the black soil zone of Russia, acquaintance with cultural traditions of Russian hinterland and neighboring countries.
Where to stay in "Orlovsky Polesie"?
At least eight hotel services, which we can recommend and which we are sure won't disappoint the most demanding visitors, are ready to open their doors to the guests of "Orlovskoye Polesie" National Park.
- Hotel complex "Forester's house"
- Boutique Hotel Polesie
- Leisure Camp "Polesie village"
- Atmospheric open-air guest house in the Orlovsky Polesie
- Leisure Camp "Four Seasons"
- "U Nikolaicha" guest house
- Guest house "At Pyshkin meadow"
- Guest house in the village of Starom
