With the common theme of Russians celebrating, this is a highly enjoyable exhibition showing Russian people doing what they do best - organising really great parties! The 250 paintings, sketches and pieces of applied folk art reveal a mixture of types of Russian holidays, from the divine religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas, pagan superstitions and midsummer rituals, imperial balls and colourful city processions. The new holidays introduced in the Soviet era are also represented, with impressive social-realist paintings showing the celebrations of May Day, Victory Day and of course the holiday marking the great October revolution.