CHRISTMAS IN RUSSIA: New year’s traditions you MUST follow if you came to Russia

Russian Christmas is so different from American or any other. But New Year in Russia is the biggest holiday, and for us, it is much more celebrated than Christmas. Therefore, in this video, I am talking about New Year's traditions. If you liked my video, please let me know! Since I am a beginner at KZbin, your support and feedback are very important to me!
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[@xenia4428]

I am from Moldova but moved to America, I still follow all of these traditions on new years! It is so much fun!

[@paulpillow7641]

Russian Christmas reminds me of how American Christmas used to be.

[@natyrusa]

We mostly don't celebrate Christmas. Just some people go to the church for the Christmas Eve and that's all.

[@user-rg4jc7it5f]

@@natyrusa Not exactly. Lots of Russians celebrate the way people in Russia used to in the times before the revolution of 1917, I mean getting together and having a true warm family celebration. Not everyone did it in Soviet times but some has always celebrated Christmas in Russia not only in the church but also at homes.

[@natyrusa]

@@user-rg4jc7it5f я знаю очень много людей уже, учитывая свой возраст, но из всех этих людей только 1-2 семьи отмечают этот праздник походом в церковь на ночь, потом стол и гости дома, подарки. Для всех остальных это обычный выходной. Максимум поздравляют друг друга словами и всё.

[@vukstefanovic3637]

Amazing video! I'd really like to attend at the Russian celebration of New Year and Christmas (we Serbs celebrate it also on 7th the January) next year of 2022 (I may go to Master studies in Moscow). Greetings from Serbia 🇷🇸, Nesty 😊

[@AgentNesty]

Woow congrats with your master! I’m sure you’ll enjoy Moscow at December 💖 Wish you all the best for future ❄️🎄

[@westernwanderer8397]

You must watch It’s a Wonderful Life. It was made in the 1940’s after WW2 and is a great movie. It comes on every year at Christmas time. As I have gotten older it has more meaning to me and is very touching. I plan to watch Irony of Fate this year. Love your videos. Love and thanks from United States.

[@annaste]

Такие приятные воспоминания❤ Прекрасное новогоднее видео Настя! Кстати меня тоже так зовут, успехов в канале❤

[@jomaricampos17]

When Ber months arrived, we Filipinos celebrated the Longest Christmas around the globe. When September 1 arrives, our malls and large establishments playing Christmas songs. Merry Christmas in Filipino is "Maligayang Pasko" Hope you experience our Christmas here in the Philippines.. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[@Georgggg]

0:35 thats called foreshadowing

[@greble11]

Very interesting! Thank you for giving us a beautiful picture of Russian Christmas.

[@user-qi2cx6ji9s]

New Year

[@Pashka70123]

Not to mention fireworks for 8 days straight. Well not now but before. Spent 2 new years in Russia loved it.

[@SirCreeps]

Hello im a fan from Philippines, im love watching your videos, they are all entertaining and educational at the sametime. and also you are so beautiful. I suggest you to content something about Philippines. and i'm sure a lot of our Filipino people will notice you.

[@j.4332]

In UK we have a traditional Xmas movie "Scrooge" which was by Charles Dickens about a mean old man who gets taught about how to be a nicer person at Xmas,its really scary with ghosts but with a happy ending.

[@gabe8390]

🌲Tsar Peter the Great copied the tradition of fir greenery in Europe and in 1700 asked his compatriots to decorate the holiday table with fir branches and the New Year was celebrated for the first time🎆. After Peter's death, such rituals fell into oblivion again, until Alexandra Fyodorovna, the wife of Tsar Nicholas I, breathed new life into them a whole century later, albeit at Christmas. 🎀The German, born Friederike Luise Charlotte Wilhelmine von Prussia in Potsdam in 1798, introduced the custom at court of decorating tables with arrangements made of fir branches.🎄On her initiative, the first Christmas tree was set up in the Anichkov Palace in St. Petersburg in 1819. The first public "Jolka" could be admired in 1852 in the building of what was then the Yekaterinen railway station (today Moscow railway station) in St. Petersburg. From then on, it also spread to the provinces, especially in cities with a strong German diaspora. The Christmas tree is a German tradition and is now a tradition in Russia, America and many countries. Best Wishes to the world from Germany🎁🎁

[@AntonBrant]

Вся Европа заимствовала обряд наряжать ель на Рождество у немцев. Не только Пётр 1.

[@aragnee1]

My family on new year as soon as it strikes 12 we open a door or window to let the old year out and the new year in.

[@davidreynolds3082]

Great job Nesty - thanks :)

[@rodrigomohr1277]

Very interesting to know all this! Thank you very much for sharing!

[@grahampartridge9335]

Hello from Scotland. You're video just popped up, I've now subscribed. Looks like a lovely holiday session, its interesting to see how others do things. Our family have it around the 21st after the longest night to welcome the turn in the sessions, more a pagan tradition . Take care and keep up the lovely videos.

[@davidkelly5041]

All I want for Christmas is Nesty! 🎅🤶

[@jimh527]

Smart girl. 😘

[@joec5099]

Thank you for making this video. 🙏

[@AgentNesty]

Thank you for comment 🥰

[@TerentiBittner]

They still play Gentlemany Udachi? Klass!!! I love Home alone brings back many awesome memories. Rostovchan is New Yorka!

[@michaelmccreedy8240]

Here in the Deep South of America (at least where I live) we celebrate New Years with going out to parties & we count down the New Year. At midnight, you toast the new year and kiss the date that came with you. On New Years Day, we eat cornbread, black eyed peas, and collard greens. This is to ensure a prosperous and healthy new year.

[@mnmllama8382]

As a Russian watching this I’m very happy people can learn more about this so when I say I don’t celebrate Christmas I don’t have to explain grandpa frost and why I still decorated

[@Manu_300]

In Venezuela and LATAM, we usually make big parties with friends and family, with a lot of music, food, beer, dancing and all that stuff, sometimes they last two days, those parties are hilarious and crazy xD. Of course, we also used to gather each other and eat together, make wishes for the New Year. I think New Year's Even is one of the most funny and beautiful celebration.

[@c-mac9902]

Привет я из Америки. My apologies that’s about as much as I can speak at the moment, other than a few random words. The thing I’m impressed by, is the culture and the traditions. It seems that most American traditions that are widespread are very shallow and were created over the last 80 to hundred years. I hope you are blessed and find this coming new year an amazing new Adventure. Пока пока

[@4evaavfc]

Was New Year always the biggest celebration in Russia? Thank you for keeping on. Merry Christmas and have a great New Year.

[@MG-uy3ie]

yes the New Year is one of the biggest celebrations in Russia along with 9th of May (Victory Day), Easter (probably because children get holidays and it lasts for a couple of days with the egg colourings and etc) and 1st September which is a national First day of School Day - you can see LOADS of flowers on that day). i think overall Russia has a lot more Bank Holidays than UK (definitely) not sure about other countries and there are also appreciation days such as certain profession (where you give thanks or gifts to someone you know in that profession) or mothers/fathers/children days and course 8th of March for women's day and 23 February for Men's day, Maslenitsya (pancake day) is another one, there are also individual "city birthdays" where its a full on 2 day celebration of a citys birthday with fireworks at the end of the 2nd day. i loved those the best cause where i lived it was in the summer

[@user-ny2dx7lz3s]

При СССР когда шла борьба с религией то рождество официально прекратили отмечать тем более в СССР и России очень много людей разных религий и в новый год отмечают все.

[@coltthestarsheriff3544]

Heritage of Communism. Same here in Serbia.

[@user-rp5xl2ej7t]

❤ beautiful

[@travel_nature_and_life]

Thank you for introducing your traditions ! love it so much. Very nice refreshing vlog. 👍😊🤍❄

[@AgentNesty]

Thank you so much 😊

[@Peggy_mi]

@@AgentNesty Very cool video 🎉thanks for sharing ❤and would you mind if I capture some scene in your video that I would use for my video, which also introducing Russian new year…

[@shekhargupta6718]

Wow, the streets are so beautiful because it is being shown by the most beautiful Russian herself. Jokes apart you are doing an amazing work . I am so fortunate to see your content driven videos. Keep up the good work dear. Lots of love and respect from India.

[@arttoegemann]

Charming. Well done.

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I love your content you have so much charisma!!! you can conquer the world for sure

[@julianhernandez3237]

In the caribbean we can go out and celebrate in the streets, because there is no cold weather. Most people like to put on loud music for the whole block to enjoy. People are drinking lots of beer and other alcoholic beverages, getting drunk, dancing caribbean music and they keep it up until the next day, in some cases the party can go on for several days. In my country we eat "natilla" and "buñuelos" is a common tradition on december 24th and 31st. The children only get presents the 24th. Love your videos and agree that your personality is very attractive. Greetings from Colombia

[@natyrusa]

I read "natalia" instead of "natilla" first 😂😂😂

[@marklion]

Very interesting video Nesty. I used to go to Sydney, Australia in the 1990's, every Christmas and New Year. I would watch the fireworks going off on the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Most of life was in New Zealand. It is summer now in Southern Hemisphere, so We would go to the beach on Christmas Day. My burning paper wish is for more of your videos and that you will remain safe and beautiful.

[@user-rg4jc7it5f]

Many thanks, I have just had an idea of using your videos to teach foreigners bits of Russian traditions and to teach my Russian students English 😉

[@hannahbielby7537]

Thanks really good, so loved go there wonderful Christmas experience , so much better than York North Yorkshire Christmas Market x

[@user-vn3wd6yv9c]

С большим удовольствием пересмотрела снова это видео 📹!! Пасибки, Агент Нести)

[@supremo5030]

Fascinating ✨

[@AgentNesty]

Thank you dear 🥰

[@supremo5030]

@@AgentNesty Where's the humming intro? That's cute.

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Omg they are just the cutest 😍😍🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️

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Nice Chanel, I’m enjoying it.

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Agent Nesty is pretty. ❤

[@redguardred]

better late than never , great video. l hope you make it Moscow soon to see fireworks.

[@positron321]

Давно мне не попадались подобные видео, как будто с родным человеком поговорил)

[@Dionysus784]

christmas was also celebrated in december in russia but there was a different callendar, the gregorian

[@ImranKhan-ww2dp]

Amazing video happy Christmas

[@AgentNesty]

💖 Merry Christmas 🎄

[@birurjayaprakash634]

Love you Happy new year

[@ferrariguy8278]

Catching up on your video catalog (from better times). I've got to suggest adding 2 more American Christmas movies to your watch list: 1> "We're no Angels"- 1958 with Humphrey Bogart - (It's a sweet comedy) , and 2> of course "A Christmas Story" - 1983. I hope this upcoming Christmas will be worthy of the innocence & happiness in those films.

[@alexanderadam6178]

Yes…she be awesome

[@MPlain]

Great content. Love your accent. 🍁

[@AgentNesty]

Thank you 😊

[@kembarbersaudara186]

Saya dari indonesia penggemar berat anda ilove rusia

[@rksolar2806]

Hey btw, your Santa Claus looks WAY cooler!

[@user-xq8qx6bg2j]

❤❤🌷 Нести, с Новым годом (2023)... лучше поздно, чем никогда.❗️❗️🌷🌷🌷

[@fidamuhammad7076]

Amazing ms

[@stuartjones9339]

I Just Discovered Your You Tube Channel Today. I Love It. It's Awesome & Fantastic. Thankyou So Very Much For Posting This Video. God Bless Russia & God Bless You.

[@basook6116]

awesome

[@michelemmerechts5596]

Very nice....!

[@robertl3851]

We eat back-eyed peas at new years not sure where this tradition comes from but it's sapose to bring prosperity

[@dennny6277]

🎉 ❤

[@harthurayasse3228]

Hi Nesti, I liked the video, very beautiful place where you live, God bless you, Merry Christmas 🎄 I'm from Brazil, you're a happy girl, friendly, kind, affectionate, beautiful, who brings joy in your videos, keep it up, stay with Jesus, success👍

[@hamdankaramin3953]

Christmas celebration looks very festive

[@natyrusa]

Her video is about New Year's celebration. We mostly don't celebrate Christmas. Just some people go to the church for the Christmas Eve and that's all.

[@howierfs5471]

Did a double Nesty today, sorry. Well, have you ever watched Dinner for one around that time ? Cant count how often I watched. Many thanks for your infos and crazieness. Like your humor. CU

[@alembicsoshu]

The awesome!

[@vargafelix-eduard2818]

💜💜

[@chrismusix5669]

#Celebrate!! ≽ܫ≼

[@j.4332]

In UK we send someone outdoors at 11.59pm on 31/12 then let them back in on the stroke of midnight.But in Russia it seems more fun.

[@ChelseaSierraK.]

💖

[@Ploadolf]

❤

[@JP-wd1yo]

This Cutie is too cute

[@polymathica]

Oh! My husband has not told me about making a wish and drinking it. I will have to try this tradition! Fun!

[@AgentNesty]

You should try it on this New Year night 🥰 🎄

[@sidakkhurana676]

I can't believe why you have such a small family I wish God and you hardwork give 100 million subscribers to you ❤❤😅😅 love you crush

[@MR-ub6sq]

My absolute favorite Russian movie is "Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath". The one where a Russian bachelor - a doctor by profession - gets undetected on a plane bound for St. Petersburg, instead of his friend not flying as planned... Well. The doctor was only going to return in the evening by taxi to his mother's apartment in Moscow. But he gets to his future wife's apartment at the same address with his own keys, where her boyfriend Ippolit will "fall from a great height and hurt his wing". I've watched it many times over the years and I never get tired of it.

[@russiafromwithin5440]

I rewatched it yesterday.

[@MR-ub6sq]

@@russiafromwithin5440 Несмотря на то, что я финн и живу в Финляндии, я всегда смотрю это снова. Есть и другие интересные российские и советские фильмы, но этот я пересматривал снова и снова с тех пор, как открыл его для себя. Галя очаровательна! И две ее нетерпеливые подружки... Отличный дуэт! Еще один фильм, который я тоже смотрел несколько раз, - «Преступление и наказание». Младшая сестра Родиона очень красивая.

[@xPaulie]

My Tisulsky Princess ... I love you! 😘❤

[@billkirbyzuniga4465]

1:07 I didn't expect that in this kind of vlog and also from u T_T HAHAHAHAHAHAA

[@Ali-7676]

Irony of Fate is an awesome move!

[@ya_em_ditei]

Смотрю, уже зная что там будет)

[@stephanieellison7834]

When you show us Russian Christmas, I think I understand why I had certain feelings about it when I was a young child. I'm profoundly deaf, and I wasn't diagnosed until I was 7.5 years old (I'm 57), so I remember what Christmas was like without Jesus being in it. I just treated it as an occasion during the winter to find a tree, dress it up, and receive gifts in shiny, colorful boxes. I really didn't start to communicate very well until I was past 8.5 years old. I wasn't told the basis of Christmas until 9 or 10 years old. I treated it like it was Yuletide or some sort more than 2,000 years ago. The trees, the snow, the red, green, and white colors, the cold-climate equipment (skis, sleds, reindeer, etc.) felt VERY, VERY OLD. I guess because I remember it epigenetically through my Russian ancestry (Russian and Tuvan). I remember watching the American Christmas animated shows (both cartoon and non-cartoon) in the 70s, and feeling that old, old feeling of remembering forests with snow on the ground. I refused to accept Christianity and refused to connect the two, subconsciously. I found out later why I didn't (hunches developed from egpigenetics). I'm the one who discovered not only the Indian links, but also the Russian and Tuvan links through a DNA test, which explained EVERYTHING about my life. I think that what I was remembering is really Ded Moroz and all that came with this pre-Christian tradition! That's why it feels so old! By remaining attached to Ded Moroz, you held up an important clue which solved my riddle of that early childhood experience, which was really remembrance of Ded Moroz! You helped solve a 50-year-old mystery today! Now, I get it! It is great that you held onto your visual representations of the time of the year, which are very colorful. I love the colorful cultures of India!

[@danilavanila6842]

Wow that's interesting-☆!!

[@terryhetherington3364]

That was interesting. I’m Canadian.

[@airborneranger-ret]

You make a very nice snow maiden ;)

[@j.4332]

What i would like to see from a Russian vlogger is about the Matrioshka dolls.

[@natyrusa]

But what exactly would you like to know about these dolls?

[@j.4332]

@@natyrusa All what they represent and what the history etc.

[@natyrusa]

@@j.4332 Matryoshka's prototypes are Japanese nesting Fukuruma dolls that were brought to Russia in the end of the 19th century. A Russian artist made similar doll, but he drew a girl. He called it Matryoshka because of a Russian woman name Matryona that was popular at that time. That's all the story.

[@dieseltinus6680]

According to my count you mentioned the word celebration(s) 13 times.Happy New Year from the Netherlands.

[@briansd6]

😅

[@justworkingfortheweekend8504]

Russia 🥰

[@user-of3vi8fm9z]

Красивая волжаночка, с наступающим и рождеством, симпатяга.

[@AgentNesty]

Спасибо! С наступающим 💖

[@JesusLovesYou.625]

My mum and dad are both Russian but they moved to Australia before I was born. So we celebrate Christmas on the 25th but my birthday is on January 7th and my mum always calls me a Christmas baby.

[@andreaswestberg91]

What new year gifts are popular? Best luck! Thanks for good video! /love from sweden

[@AntonBrant]

Ваш вопрос остался без ответа, поэтому напишу я. Подарки могут быть разнообразные. Но на новый год друзья или родственники могут дарить например вязанные шерстяные носки, шарфы или например пледы, так как большая часть России с суровым климатом и длинной зимой поэтому эти подарки всегда актуальны , также дарят новогодние свечи в виде различных животных например, если подходит год козла то свеча в виде мультяшного козла. Детям родители под ёлку кладут коробочки со сладостями и игрушку о которой ребенок просил у деда Мороза (Санты - Клауса). Я на каждый новый год обязательно покупаю новую елочку игрушку из стекла и вешаю её на ель. Уже своя коллекция, самыми ценными игрушки считаются те которые остались от родителей, от бабушек и дедушек, у меня в коллекции есть такие игрушки ещё советского производства, самая старая примерно конец 60х начало 70 годов

[@Broodjemetbeleg]

​@@AntonBrantcool thanks for answering the question! Merry Christmas.

[@werth7113]

Thats like 99% same in Poland

[@j.4332]

i think nesty would be a great bond girl.

[@waywardcalifornian3516]

merry christmas, nesty! i can't help but wish i was your present next year! one of the traditions on new year in north california is to take your pistol, rifle, shotgun or автомат outside and at midnight, fire a few bullets into the air. guess that don't happen much there.

[@bobgoodall1603]

Christmas and New Year have evolved from my childhood in the fifties. Christmas was not a public holiday until 1958, so my dad went work and I can remember this. Scotland had an odd attitude to festivities, and having been strict Calvanists it changed and started to be mainstream, and got on board with commercialising a religious festival. My dad had said there was an unwritten law that the Scots were on duty at Christmas and the rest were on duty at New Year in the British army. So never try to contact anyone in the army on Chistmas day as you will get greenkeeper Willie from the Simpsons.(Promise you wont use that intel' Agent Nastya). During most of my life there was the Queens speech to the Commonwealth which fate arranged that i would never see. The main event was Hogmanay when i would meet my cousins for a drink and some pub games then home for food music and some dancing neighbours would drop round for an hour or two and things would calm down about 2-5 when folk went home to their house. But depending on the day New Year landed similar parties happened for two three days afterwards for catchup. There was a few menu items that were usually available, hot lamb broth, a one pot (stovies)- potato, onion and chopped sausage combo that warmed people who would have walk in the cold to get there, shortbread and a fruitcake that had more calories than rocket fuel. Needless to say Whisky and other drinks were freeflowing....except my mother who hated booze and nursed a small sherry the entire evening until she sloshed it down the sink at the end of the evening. As a student in a student town there were lots of parties and lots of ideas that didnt work out. So on new year it was quite possible to find a crate of beer 24cans in a telephone kiosk. It had probably been an over ambitious party goer with 48cans who decided that maybe he couldnt carry quite as much as he thought. I found an unopened bottle of whisky in a similar state the next year, so remember in the land of the blind drunk the not so drunk man is king. These days new year has been homogenised, organised and marginalized.

[@ramuram2158]

Happy

[@AgentNesty]

💖💖

[@andyzagray7962]

Try the movie. A Christmas story it's a really big movie in America you'll like it promise

[@tanishqmairal]

Could you share this for current year also... ???

[@informationcollectionpost3257]

You forgot one very important tradition cabbage & porker or pork & saurkraut or pork sausage ( polish sausage usually, kielbasa). The New Years supper must have some version of pork and cabbage to bring you good luck. ( probably fat hogs and large heads of cabbage in the new year, cabbage has vitamin C which protects against colds and flu) Other than that we stay home and watch TV and/or You Tube. We may watch the ball drop in Times Square in New York City. Other families go out to a restaurant or bar to celebrate forgetting that New Years is the best time to die from getting hit (either hitting your car or by getting ran over by a car) by a drunk car driver. I may have a Black & Tan or a heavy ale ( B & T = 1/2 porter mixed with 1/2 beer)

[@agustina374]

Difernete a nosotros los paises de occidente pero igualmente miu bonito!! ❤

[@j.4332]

I think she filmed this on Leningradskaya in Samara.

[@Ahmaddasuki659]

🤗🤗🇷🇺🇮🇩🇷🇺🇮🇩

[@antytrend]

👋

[@paulrogers1531]

Great Video Nesty! Very well edited. Happy Christmas, hope you get more views from Santa!

[@AgentNesty]

Thaaaank u 💖 Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

[@donpellerin8867]

I liked all the food at New Years eve. Plus skating by the big Christmas tree looks fun! That was funny grandfather frost falling down drunk the stairs.

[@j.4332]

Does the machine in the shop that plays little tunes say "Sharmanki"?What does it mean?

[@ragnarkisten]

are you wearing kolgotki in winter?