Holiday Gift Cards


Printed on matte, 100% recycled stock, these beautiful cards will make a festive impression on all who receive them. The cards are blank inside. Each set contains 10 cards with the same image, plus 10 high quality envelopes. The back of each card is printed with the inscription noted below.


Vertical Card: Holiday Sheaf (“Snop”). The tradition of a fir tree at Christmas was imported into Russia from the West rather recently. An older tradition was to bring into the home a sheaf of grain (in Russian, snop), either the first or last sheaf harvested during the previous growing season. It was decorated with ribbons and placed in the icon corner during winter solstice holidays. Later, grain from that snop was mixed into the seeds for the next year’s crop.


HC-SNOP (vertical) • $15 HC-BAG (horizontal) • $15


Horizontal Card: Mummers (“Ryazhenye”). During winter holidays, Russian revelers would dress as animals or as evil spirits, as nobility or characters from various nationali- ties or professions, and wander the village making noise, ringing bells and performing suggestive dances or skits.


Russian Life Binders


Our heavy-duty binders hold a full year of issues without clamping or hole-punching. The secret is in the wire rods that hold the magazines in place by their spines, without damaging the issues, yet allowing for easy removal. These quality binders are black with gold foil lettering on the face and spine (only the Russian Life name is imprinted, so you can get a binder for each year you wish to compile). [BINDER • $15]


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