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New Year’s Frog1

New Year’s Frog 1

Nelli Piattoeva

© 2024 Nelli Piattoeva, CC BY-NC 4.0 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0383.32

New Year celebrations in kindergartens and schools were common across the Soviet Union. The girl’s frog costume consists of a newly purchased white-and-green dress, a pair of gloves and a hat sewed by her mother. The gloves and the hat were made from grandmother’s green satin coat lining.

A photograph from a New Year’s party at the kindergarten. Two boys are dressed in bunny costumes and a girl is wearing a frog costume composed of a green dress, a green hat with big frog eyes glued onto it, and green gloves. The children are about 3 or 4 years old, sitting on a bench. The girl in a frog costume is sitting with her hands resting on her knees. She is not smiling and her gaze is focused on something in front of her.

A photograph from a New Year’s party at the kindergarten. The children are dancing and singing around a decorated Christmas tree. The boys are mostly wearing bunny costumes and the girls are dressed as snowflakes. Only one girl is wearing a frog costume. She is holding hands with other children and her gaze is focused on the Christmas tree. The kindergarten children is standing behind the children with her mouth open, most probably she is singing with children. A photographer is passing behind her.

Photographs of Nelli Piattoeva dressed as a frog for a New Year’s party, n.d. From Nelli Piattoeva’s family archive.

1 This is a childhood memory produced as part of the Reconnect/Recollect project discussed in the introduction to this book.

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