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]

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]

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

[@Setarko]

Спасибо, тебя тоже с наступающим!

[@HEKVT]

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

[@gilgameschvonuruk4982]

It existed all over pagan Europe

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

Are Balts not Europeans

[@fgjjdgb3949]

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.

[@seanledden4397]

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

[@greble11]

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

[@galahad1877]

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

[@AgentDanielCross]

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]

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]

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

[@MBP1918]

Orthodox when Christmas is on January 7

[@juanDE1703]

Nice Video.

[@JohnSmith-cw4cq]

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

[@wat-ch]

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.

[@TovarishLew]

Great video, great channel!

[@burtbacarach5034]

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]

Clementines are a hybrid of a tangerine and an orange.

[@RT-qd8yl]

Can confirm this also happens in the Great Lakes region

[@isolated_alien2996]

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]

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

[@Brick-Life]

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

[@HistorysHodgepodge]

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!

[@kaik8931]

С новым годом братья!

[@EllinikiDimokratia]

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]

Grapes dipped in Honey, are togas still mandatory?😀

[@EllinikiDimokratia]

@@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.

[@real.MinatoYellowFlash]

In Alaska we have Orthodox Christmas and Catholic Christmas

[@IvanPavlov]

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

[@noheroespublishing1907]

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

[@aleksapetrovic6519]

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

[@engineergaming5215]

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

[@randomthoughts6625]

Do a video about Soviet ice cream

[@DDrew67]

What about White Nights?....I forgot

[@stekra3159]

Not even the Party can stop pepole from partying.

[@germanshepherd6638]

My family eats crab for New Years🦀

[@trm942]

So on 26 December...

[@goury]

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.

[@RDSyafriyar]

"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]

No more Latvian sprats in modern Russia.

[@EllinikiDimokratia]

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

[@fgjjdgb3949]

Зато мандарины по прежнему в ходу!

[@Nannerchan]

Happy holidays.

[@szariq7338]

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.

[@machetas]

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

[@albin2232]

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]

5:30 wait their was a Csar named Elizabeth?

[@Setarko]

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

[@comradecat3678]

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

[@GeorgeSemel]

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

[@dtheguy]

Snovam godam

[@CrimsonSw1ft]

Happy Holidays!

[@nattashacampos7584]

Merry Christmas haha

[@ThatsMyChad]

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

[@Setarko]

Haha actually it's just Hyperx quadcast

[@ThatsMyChad]

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

[@averagetoad2802]

Greek Orthodox celebrate on December 25

[@ANDREALEONE95]

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

[@dogeboi1804]

Well it can't be that good can it

[@randnorm]

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]

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

[@Man-of-Steel674]

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.

[@mr.normalguy69]

Is Santa Claus communist?

[@forsis80]

In Europe -Non binary.

[@MyHentaiGirl]

Yes, look at him Gifts for alls Wearing Red

[@diegotapia2830]

Commarade Claus

[@mamkin_anarchist1444]

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

[@denysfromkyiv2919]

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

[@user-tz6vf8to5f]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@FOLIPE]

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).

[@user-qjxfs8]

Unbearable accent