Russian New Year: History and Traditions

This is the last video of 2022 and, of course, it is about winter holidays in Russia. You Western people will start them earlier, and by the end of December you'll be fed up with the holidays. But for Russians the main day of the year is the December 31st and the New Year's Eve is a much more important holiday than our Orthodox Christmas. Today I will tell you how the Slavs celebrated (or not celebrated) the coming of the new year in March and September, how Peter the Great decided to move the calendar for the sake of connection with Europe and how Bolsheviks erased all religious ties from this day. Of course, we will not forget the more modern traditions - Ded Moroz and Snegurochka, Olivier salad, the movie "The Irony of Fate" and the annual presidential address at midnight. Have fun, ho-ho-ho!

00:00 New Year in Russia
00:53 New Year in September and March
03:23 Changing Year 7208 to 1700
07:31 How Bolsheviks Stole Christmas and New Year
08:58 The Return of the Soviet New Year
11:59 Soviet TV and food during holidays
13:45 New Year in modern Russia

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