It is also the Feast of Feast of St. Basil the Great.
Liturgical colours are those specific colours which are used for vestments, altar covers, and analogion covers within the context of services of the Church. The symbolism of colours may serve to underline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or may highlight a special occasion.
There is a distinction between the colour of the vestments worn by the clergy and their cassocks, which with a few exceptions does not change with the liturgical seasons.
The Typikon itself does not specify a complex colour scheme for vestments, but only for light or dark vestments. Many clergy who follow Byzantine practice have adopted the more complex colour scheme that was developed in Slavic practice, but you will also see many diverse colours used in vestments that do not easily fit into the that scheme.
The most authoritative description of the Russian liturgical colour scheme is found in Bulgakov's Nastol'naya Kniga Sviashchenno-sluzhitelia (Reference Book for Priestly Church Servers).
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