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Watch this video which was recorded at the Menara Taming Sari in Melaka over Friday 12 to Sunday 14 September 2014 during the World Ethnic Music Festival.

The dance and the music is usually presented during weddings and many happy occasions.

Russia’s traditional costumes are beautiful and unique. To imagine how well the Russians preserved the traditions, we must take note that the first ruler of Russia was a Viking and the government was set up around 856.

The Kievan state expanded slowly under the influence of the Greco-Byzantine culture. Russians were strongly influenced by the Mongols when Genghis Khan conquered parts of Siberia in 1207.

By the 13^th century, Moscow had become the capital and the Grand Duke of Moscow had unified Russia followed by his grandson, Ivan IV who proclaimed himself Tsar in 1547.

Modern Russian culture may be said to have begun when Peter the Great “opened his window on Europe” in the 18^th century.

The futurists develop a proletarian culture in all the arts, and while private art collections were transferred to new public museums, cultural lectures were given in factories and in the Red Army.

Russian literature, music, and art became linked to the bourgeois 19^th century schools of Russian realism and its literature contained French neoclassicism influence.

The theater and drama received particular encouragement from the Soviets. However, secular music was introduced into Russia in the 18^th century by Italian musicians and the traditional Russian folk music began in 1836 with the first opera of Mikhail I. Glinka, A Life for the Csar.