[2] It was designed to show Russian culture, through a European perspective, and featured performances by Yuri Bashmet, Valery Gergiev, Denis Matsuev, Hibla Gerzmava, and Tatiana Samouil, among others.

[3] The closing ceremonies began with a countdown to the sounds of the 9th Movement of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, at the conclusion of which the LED forest turned on.

[3] Lyubov, the girl from the opening ceremony, entered the stadium in a rowing boat with two clowns and two children named Yuri and Valentina.

Many volunteers appeared below them dressed as sea fish, which first form the Taegeuk symbol (a nod to Pyeongchang, the next winter Games host city), the infinity symbol and a star, then combined to form four Olympic Rings and a dot, a reference to the malfunction of one of the rings at the Opening Ceremony failing to open properly.

This was the first time since the 2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony that a host nation's anthem was heard twice in different forms.

[3][5] In the "Theatre" chapter, dancers demonstrated the ballet cultures of Moscow (Bolshoi) and Saint Petersburg (Mariinsky) to the music of Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

[3] Russian novelists, poets and playwrights including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Gogol, Chekhov and Akhmatova were honoured during the "Literature" chapter with a photo montage emerging from under the stage.

A final appearance was made by the three children accompanied by giant animatronic models of the three official mascots of the 2014 Olympic Games.

[8] A remix of Aleksandra Pakhmutova's "Goodbye, Moscow" played and the Polar Bear extinguished the Olympic flame.

[3] The 1,000 members of the Pan-Russian Children's Choir assembled with the mascots carrying small flames in their hands and Abkazian-Russian soprano Hibla Gerzmava sung "Goodbye, Sochi!"