For the last four years, Russia has not regarded November 7 as a holiday. This is only natural given that the current Russian government can hardly relate to these Revolutionary and Communist traditions. The most important evidence of this, strangely enough, is that for nearly 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, November 7 remained a holiday. Initially, it was something that was marked quietly, although it eventually became a vague celebration of national reconciliation. The festivities were forgotten, but the day nevertheless remained a non-working day, if only to placate the Communists who, in the early 1990s at least, were a real political force. Perhaps it was out of habit that the holiday remained. For pragmatic reasons, however, the revolutionary legacy is losing its relevance.
In the 1990s, new national realities quietly “digested” the old holiday. Finally, in 2005, a new holiday, National Unity Day, was established. This day references another historical event – the liberation of Moscow from the Poles in 1612. It also offers a different view on the new Russian state’s ideology and, from this perspective, on more important historical events.
An important component of this ideology is the declared gathering of the “Russian world.” An important dimension of this unity, among other things, is undoubtedly the solemn reburial in Russia of eminent White
