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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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  • @jjj8317
    @jjj8317 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine getting wasted in some little town in the USSR, you turn on the tv, and Ronald Raegan washes you a Happy New Year? 😂😂

  • @chapayev6787
    @chapayev6787 Жыл бұрын

    Твою дивизию, я сам довольно много узнаю из твоих видосов, несмотря на то, что всю жизнь прожил в России) С Новым Годом, Сетарко🥂🎆🎄

  • @Setarko

    @Setarko

    Жыл бұрын

    Спасибо, тебя тоже с наступающим!

  • @fgjjdgb3949
    @fgjjdgb3949 Жыл бұрын

    This time I will definitely wish that the New Year was finally better, or at least not even worse than the old year. Let the crisis and conflicts end! My family, by the way, likes to review "Morozko" for the new year and every time there is a lot of positive from watching.

  • @HEKVT
    @HEKVT Жыл бұрын

    The tradition of decorating a tree that Peter borrowed from Europe was borrowed by the Europeans from Baltic pagans.

  • @gilgameschvonuruk4982

    @gilgameschvonuruk4982

    Жыл бұрын

    It existed all over pagan Europe

  • @pyrrhusofepirus8491

    @pyrrhusofepirus8491

    Жыл бұрын

    Are Balts not Europeans

  • @seanledden4397
    @seanledden4397 Жыл бұрын

    The 1860's Olivier recipe blows me away with its call for "Crayfish necks - 3 pcs." Crayfish NECKS???? Love it!

  • @greble11
    @greble11 Жыл бұрын

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Setarko and all his subscribers on a cold and windy day in Maryland! 🥂🎄

  • @galahad1877
    @galahad1877 Жыл бұрын

    I would love to see you do a video on Alexander Pushkins grandfather Abram Petrovich

  • @AgentDanielCross
    @AgentDanielCross Жыл бұрын

    I can still remember celebrating it in SPB. Christ i was drunk and trying to impromptu sing the anthem with the others was nerveracking but so cool!

  • @Setarko

    @Setarko

    Жыл бұрын

    The funny thing about our anthem is, I bet you weren't the only one who messed up the lyrics during that celebrations. Most people I know (from the older generation) are still mixing up the words of the Russian and Soviet anthems (the music is the same)

  • @paletsvedmi

    @paletsvedmi

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Setarko вспомнил как Ельцин узнав об новом гимне и послушав его сказал: "Красненько")

  • @wat-ch
    @wat-ch Жыл бұрын

    Well, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone, especially Setarko. It's also the best time to recall how we did on our past new year resolution, especially me who made the new year resolution to not make any new year resolution.

  • @isolated_alien2996
    @isolated_alien2996 Жыл бұрын

    My Christmas gift was an new upload from Setarko, what did you get? Merry Christmas and have a happy new year! Stay safe and be blessed ✌️

  • @josephadams3220
    @josephadams3220 Жыл бұрын

    Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy new year. ✌️❤

  • @JohnSmith-cw4cq
    @JohnSmith-cw4cq Жыл бұрын

    Glad to see you haven't been mobilized. Genuinely hope it stays that way

  • @juanDE1703
    @juanDE1703 Жыл бұрын

    Nice Video.

  • @TovarishLew
    @TovarishLew Жыл бұрын

    Great video, great channel!

  • @Brick-Life
    @Brick-Life Жыл бұрын

    China also has a TV address by the president on New Year's Eve!

  • @burtbacarach5034
    @burtbacarach5034 Жыл бұрын

    Tangerines are a tradition here also in Louisiana,although we may call them "clementines'.And my german mom ALWAYS had fresh fruit in the house at Christmas.It's a small world after all...

  • @dwishs

    @dwishs

    Жыл бұрын

    Clementines are a hybrid of a tangerine and an orange.

  • @RT-qd8yl

    @RT-qd8yl

    10 ай бұрын

    Can confirm this also happens in the Great Lakes region

  • @HistorysHodgepodge
    @HistorysHodgepodge Жыл бұрын

    I learn so much about Soviet History from you! My entire life as a first generation Russian immigrant, New Years was literally the only holiday my family celebrates. Now I also celebrate Halloween some years. Loved learning the background of its origins. I really hope 2023 is a better year for you and all of Russia as well as Ukraine. Stay healthy and happy holidays!

  • @MBP1918
    @MBP1918 Жыл бұрын

    Orthodox when Christmas is on January 7

  • @EllinikiDimokratia
    @EllinikiDimokratia Жыл бұрын

    New Year... We celebrate it too,but it turned into holiday like,when it was still Byzantine. Ottomans forbidden the New Year and proceeded to force Islam. we resisted,got indenpendence,then slowly liberating our land. Its not rlly like yours,atleast in Thessaly. We celebrate it with grapes dipped in honey,parties on beaches that usually isnt filled with dozens of tourists. Our region is specific from rest of Hellas,because of how divided Thessaly is. I live on coast. Some guys live in mountains itself. Mega-richass people live in Larisa and Katherini centers. Tourists fill around Olympos.

  • @Suck_Squeeze_Bang_Blow

    @Suck_Squeeze_Bang_Blow

    Жыл бұрын

    Grapes dipped in Honey, are togas still mandatory?😀

  • @EllinikiDimokratia

    @EllinikiDimokratia

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Suck_Squeeze_Bang_Blow Dude i live in a warm country,some people wear togas because toga is always white (sometimes with ornaments) and good if you dont wanna burn because of sun.

  • @kaik8931
    @kaik8931 Жыл бұрын

    С новым годом братья!

  • @IvanPavlov
    @IvanPavlov Жыл бұрын

    USSR kid: where’s my present, Santa? Leninist Santa: Our present…

  • @noheroespublishing1907
    @noheroespublishing1907 Жыл бұрын

    I always picture Brezhnev's speeches when I think about New Year; because of KZread.

  • @aleksapetrovic6519
    @aleksapetrovic6519 Жыл бұрын

    This reminds me of that movie(s) Ёлка. Such a sweet movie until 2014. Then they kinda became alright.

  • @real.MinatoYellowFlash
    @real.MinatoYellowFlash10 ай бұрын

    In Alaska we have Orthodox Christmas and Catholic Christmas

  • @engineergaming5215
    @engineergaming5215 Жыл бұрын

    the formation of the USSR happened exactly 100 years ago in 1922 on 30th of December, с Новым Годом comrades

  • @GeorgeSemel
    @GeorgeSemel Жыл бұрын

    Merry Christmas Setarko to you and yours. I still have my Russian lessons today and thru the weekend, No rest for the weary. I like tradition. Traditions say a lot about who you are where you have been and where you are going. One of my newer traditions is Festivus, which is from the sitcom Seinfeld. I get to air grievances today among other things, I still think that it's really a good deal, Christmas, New Year, and Christmas again. All good things come in threes. The kid in me thinks celebrating all three is a really good deal

  • @goury
    @goury Жыл бұрын

    Tangerine my ass, it's a completely different thing and most people in the USSR didn't even knew such thing exists. While it looks alike, its taste is very different, much closer to a mango. What soviet people knew and ate is noble orange or mandarin, sounds and spelled the same as Chinese language thing.

  • @DDrew67
    @DDrew67 Жыл бұрын

    What about White Nights?....I forgot

  • @randomthoughts6625
    @randomthoughts6625 Жыл бұрын

    Do a video about Soviet ice cream

  • @szariq7338
    @szariq7338 Жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile shuba is already ready for tommorow's Christmas Eve. Of course I know this recipe from Life of Boris and everyone prefers it over those shitty herrings in water.

  • @stekra3159
    @stekra3159 Жыл бұрын

    Not even the Party can stop pepole from partying.

  • @germanshepherd6638
    @germanshepherd6638 Жыл бұрын

    My family eats crab for New Years🦀

  • @RDSyafriyar
    @RDSyafriyar Жыл бұрын

    "He honoured my inspirations, he set free my thought. And I, in the delight of my heart, shall I not sing his praise?" - Aleksandr Pushkin

  • @MrSovetsky
    @MrSovetsky Жыл бұрын

    No more Latvian sprats in modern Russia.

  • @EllinikiDimokratia

    @EllinikiDimokratia

    Жыл бұрын

    Unless..... *anthem of three caucasian nations starts playing*

  • @fgjjdgb3949

    @fgjjdgb3949

    Жыл бұрын

    Зато мандарины по прежнему в ходу!

  • @Nannerchan
    @Nannerchan Жыл бұрын

    Happy holidays.

  • @machetas
    @machetas11 ай бұрын

    Everybody knows that you flip the calendar on September the 3rd.

  • @trm942
    @trm942 Жыл бұрын

    So on 26 December...

  • @albin2232
    @albin2232 Жыл бұрын

    The best holiday of the year is Brosmia, when potatoes are taken to be blessed by the priest, before being paraded around the town, then cooked in pig fat by the nuns, and given to the rich. Happy Brosmia!

  • @comradecat3678
    @comradecat3678 Жыл бұрын

    5:30 wait their was a Csar named Elizabeth?

  • @Setarko

    @Setarko

    Жыл бұрын

    Empress Elizabeth of Russia, second-eldest daughter of Peter the Great

  • @comradecat3678

    @comradecat3678

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Setarko o right! nice thanks for the reply! happy holidays too!!!

  • @nattashacampos7584
    @nattashacampos7584 Жыл бұрын

    Merry Christmas haha

  • @dtheguy
    @dtheguy Жыл бұрын

    Snovam godam

  • @CrimsonSw1ft
    @CrimsonSw1ft Жыл бұрын

    Happy Holidays!

  • @averagetoad2802
    @averagetoad2802 Жыл бұрын

    Greek Orthodox celebrate on December 25

  • @ThatsMyChad
    @ThatsMyChad Жыл бұрын

    Setarko! I have to ask! What mic do you use to make your voice so *sultry*? :D

  • @Setarko

    @Setarko

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha actually it's just Hyperx quadcast

  • @ThatsMyChad

    @ThatsMyChad

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Setarko wow! It sounds better than my rode video mic pro :0 talent I suppose overcomes any technology 😅

  • @ANDREALEONE95
    @ANDREALEONE95 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder how this New Year's Eve shall be for Russia.

  • @dogeboi1804

    @dogeboi1804

    Жыл бұрын

    Well it can't be that good can it

  • @Man-of-Steel674
    @Man-of-Steel674 Жыл бұрын

    Every year I watched putin's new year message without knowing a russian word. He widely admired in my country Sri Lanka. Say what you wanna say I used listen to him regulary when RT was not banned on YT. He was a cool guy. I like him.

  • @randnorm
    @randnorm Жыл бұрын

    comment for the algorithm. also imo you should focus back on the ussr as not many people are keen on listening about modern day russia or russian culture

  • @haywoodyoudome

    @haywoodyoudome

    Жыл бұрын

    Speak for yourself. Modern day Russia is just as interesting and not everyone gives a shit about Ukraine.

  • @mr.normalguy69
    @mr.normalguy69 Жыл бұрын

    Is Santa Claus communist?

  • @forsis80

    @forsis80

    Жыл бұрын

    In Europe -Non binary.

  • @MyH3ntaiGirl

    @MyH3ntaiGirl

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, look at him Gifts for alls Wearing Red

  • @diegotapia2830

    @diegotapia2830

    Жыл бұрын

    Commarade Claus

  • @mamkin_anarchist1444

    @mamkin_anarchist1444

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, he uses slave labor from elves in North Pole gulags.

  • @FOLIPE
    @FOLIPE Жыл бұрын

    Our main holidays in Brazil are probably Carnival in late February to early March, the Festas Juninas in mid to late June (from St. Anthony's day in June 13th to Saint Paul and Saint Peter's day in June 29th), and Christmas in December. We typically visit family and I remeber that back when my grandparents lived in thr countryside there were gatherings people went to in different houses in the community during December to pray in preparation for Christmas (since, you know, you'd not have a priest in most rural communities). Christmas has become quite americanized over time, at least in the mainstream, but the other two holidays still are more endogenous since they are not that relevant in western culture (although to be fair carnival was influenced by French carnival in some regions on Brazil in the turn of the last century).

  • @denysfromkyiv2919
    @denysfromkyiv2919 Жыл бұрын

    Christianity came not to Russia, but to Kievan Rus)there was no such thing as Russia back then

  • @user-tz6vf8to5f

    @user-tz6vf8to5f

    Жыл бұрын

    Dear, at that time there was no concept of Kievan Rus, this is the name of a time period in the history of Rus.

  • @RainerMichelle

    @RainerMichelle

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-tz6vf8to5f the Muscovites have stolen the history of the Kyiv Rus , which shows us that the Russians always were thieves and liars who falsified history in their favor, like "the great patriotic war" that for some funny reason for Russia only started in 1941, while for the rest of the world it started in 1939 when Stalin signed a friendship pact with his buddy Adolf Hitler, to commit war crimes and genocide in Eastern Europe together

  • @user-tz6vf8to5f

    @user-tz6vf8to5f

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RainerMichelle If you think that the Russians stole history from ancient Russia, then I'm sorry for your mental abilities. At the expense of the Great Patriotic War, this is part of the 2nd World War, in which the USSR took a direct part, that is, this is our personal war. No one denies the official date of World War 2. The Pact of Molotov and Ribbentrop was a pact of non-aggression and redistribution of spheres of influence, not friendship (after all, there was an anti-communist pact among the axis countries, Finland, etc.). It was an ugly act in foreign policy, but the Munich collusion and the Strange War of 1939-1940 shows that all countries were not clean then

  • @RainerMichelle

    @RainerMichelle

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-tz6vf8to5f one more time, for the slow learner, Kyiv is Ukraine, and NOT Russia, which means the history of the Kyivan Rus has nothing to do with Russia, Russia did nor exist when the Ukrainians founded Kyiv, Ukrainians are the descendants of European Viking heroes, while the Muscovites who call themselves Russians are the descendants of slaves of the Mongols from Central Asia

  • @user-tz6vf8to5f

    @user-tz6vf8to5f

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RainerMichelle Thank you for showing me your brain, good luck to you with such KNOWLEDGE and continue to get to people not even of your culture. goodbye.

  • @user-qjxfs8
    @user-qjxfs87 ай бұрын

    Unbearable accent