Day 21 January in history. Engineering Troops Day

In 1556, at the age of 81, Maxim the Greek, a publicist, theologian and church leader, died. He was born and raised in Greece under the name Michael Trivolis. After tonsure as a monk, he lived in Florence in a Catholic Dominican monastery, then converted to Orthodoxy. Arriving in Moscow at the invitation of the Grand Duke Basil III translate Greek books, Maxim Grek had a great impact on the development public thought in Russia. It was the Greek who brought to Moscow (with a delay of only 20 years) the news of the discovery of America. His cell in the Simonov Monastery became a place where Muscovites gathered for discussions about "books and Constantinople customs." Maxim the Greek became close to the ecclesiastical and secular opposition: Prince Vasily Patrikeev, theologian Zinovy Ottensky, Prince Andrey Kurbsky. Three times convicted, Maxim the Greek spent a quarter of a century in captivity in monasteries and was released only 5 years before his death. In 1988 he was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 1724, Peter I issued a decree regulating behavior in courts. The emperor believed that all people in court should behave calmly and politely - "decently act." Violators of the order - those who "begin to scold, say hello or shout" - need to be reprimanded. And if the illegal behavior is repeated more than three times, then it is necessary to “take away the rank, a third of all movable and immovable” property. Petrovsky decree regulated the behavior of not only petitioners, but also judges, and obliged the heads of all judicial places to treat petitioners courteously.

On January 21, 1775 (the 10th of the old style) in Moscow, on Bolotnaya Square, the leader of the uprising of Cossacks and peasants Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachev, posing as the late emperor, was quartered Peter III. Don Cossack, a native of the village of Zimoveyskaya, Pugachev was an outstanding person and a very capable leader. Having received a good military training at the Seven-Year and Russian-Turkish wars, Emelyan Ivanovich from the end of 1771 began to lead the life of a fugitive Cossack, contacting the Old Believers and traveling around Ukraine and the Commonwealth. In 1772, Pugachev found refuge with the Yaitsky Cossacks - there he first called himself "Emperor". In 1773, he managed to escape from the Kazan prison, and in September of the same year a powerful uprising broke out on Yaik: thousands of subjects - Cossacks and peasants - believed in the legend of the miraculously saved sovereign. The Pugachev rebellion, spreading to vast territory from Yaik to the Volga, became a serious danger to the monarchy of Catherine II.

The Empress could not look indifferently at how the Pugachevites stormed Kazan in July 1774 and almost gained a foothold in the city. The regular troops sent against the rebels managed to suppress the indignation, and Pugachev, who tried to hide on the Don, was handed over by the Cossacks to the authorities in September of the same year. The self-styled "empirator", brought by Suvorov to Moscow, was publicly executed along with his closest associates. The native village of Pugachev - Zimoveyskaya - was moved to another place and named Potemkinskaya, and the Yaik River, on which the uprising broke out, was renamed the Urals.

In 1775, the Spanish musician Manuel Garcia was born - a tenor singer, guitarist, composer and excellent vocal teacher, founder of a singing school in Paris. He applied his pedagogical talent, will, strong character and musical gift to his children. His daughters Maria and Polina became famous as outstanding singers (mezzo-sopranos) Malibran and Viardot (the latter, by the way, was a close friend of Ivan Turgenev). Dad was so strict that the fans were then surprised at the art of Malibran to sing and cry at the same time. The son of the master - Manuel Patricio Rodriguez Garcia Jr. - also became an excellent singer and vocal teacher, professor at the Paris Conservatory and doctor of medicine. It was Garcia Jr. who invented the laryngoscope (mirror with a handle) in 1855 - a device for examining the larynx.

In 1870, one of the brightest Russian writers, the fiery and rebellious Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, died in Paris. He was 57 years old, of which thirteen he lived in London. Here he produced "Polar Star" and "The Bell", here he wrote his the best book"The Past and Thoughts". A socialist who flirted with the anarchists and even with the communists of Karl Marx, Herzen at the end of his life began to lean towards liberal populism. Herzen's bell, ringing from abroad, had a strong influence on the minds of the Russian intelligentsia.

In 1905, the man who returned France to its primacy in the world of fashion, Christian Dior, was born.

Dior was born into a wealthy family and was preparing for a career as a diplomat. But circumstances developed in such a way that in the mid-30s he began working in the newspaper as an illustrator in the fashion department. Then he became a designer for two leading couturiers in Paris - first with Robert Piguet, and then with Lucien Lelong. In 1947, Christian opened his own fashion house and amazed the world with the revolutionary New Look collection. The revolutionary nature of the silhouette proposed by Dior did not lie in excessive exposure of the body. On the contrary, Dior unusually lengthened the skirt. It was he who created the model women's clothing, which we associate with the 50s of the last century - narrow small shoulders, an accentuated waistline and a long skirt diverging with soft folds. These feminine lines have replaced the tough paramilitary fashion of the forties with its padded wide shoulders and short, straight skirts. Dior's new look at fashion was, in fact, a new look at a woman - a woman of peace.

On January 21, on the next anniversary of Ilyich's death, under his portrait in the newspapers, a decree was published on awarding the Order of Lenin to Lidia Timashuk "for the help rendered to the Government in exposing killer doctors."

In 1953, the name of the modest doctor Lidia Fedoseevna Timashuk was known to all citizens of the USSR and the entire civilized world too. No wonder, because thanks to this modest cardiographer, a fantastic conspiracy of two world-wide intelligence networks - the CIA and the Intelligence Service - was exposed. The case was fabricated, but who then knew about it. And the following was supposed to be known.

Conscientious workers of the bodies of the Ministry of State Security found that the insidious enemies managed to throw their poisonous tentacles into the heart Soviet system- in the 4th (Kremlin) Medical and Sanitary Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Health. Spies recruited doctors who treated members of the Politburo of the Central Committee, Soviet ministers, leaders of the world communist movement, military leaders Soviet army. The British intelligence line, for example, stretched from London, from MI6, through the resident Isaiah Berlin (later - the world-famous professor-philosopher), through his father, the former Riga timber merchant Mendel Berlin, to his nephew, a professor from the Lechsan department of the Kremlin, from moreover, through Professor Manuil Pevzner, director of the prestigious Institute of Clinical Nutrition, to Academician Vladimir Vinogradov, Comrade Stalin's personal physician... Thus, on the instructions of foreign secret services, killer agents in white coats, almost all Jews, villainously killed Soviet leaders and military leaders - in a diabolical way of wrong treatment.

As Pravda wrote, the name of Lydia Timashuk, who thwarted the adventure of the foreign knights of the cloak and dagger, “became a symbol of Soviet patriotism, high vigilance, implacable, courageous struggle against the enemies of our Motherland ... Lydia Fedoseevna became a close and dear person for millions Soviet people" (end of quote).

But after the death of Stalin on March 5, 1953, the name of the “heroine-revealer”, as well as the names of the arrested “killer doctors”, immediately disappeared from newspaper publications. And a month later, on April 4, the same Pravda informed stunned readers that the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "on awarding the Order of Lenin to doctor Timashuk was canceled as incorrect, due to the actual circumstances that have now come to light."

In fact, Lydia Timashuk was neither an agent of the Soviet special services nor an anti-Semite. She does not deserve many other reproaches and accusations that were hung on her already in the Khrushchev era in the wake of the exposure of Stalin's personality cult. The only "guilt" of Lidia Fedoseevna was that she at one time did not agree with the diagnosis made by Andrei Zhdanov, and hence with the methods of treating the patient. She repeatedly appealed to various authorities with a request to rehabilitate her good name. Here is one of her letters: “Without a single reproach, honestly, as befits a doctor, I worked for 28 years in the Kremlin hospital, as evidenced by the awarding me in 1954 with the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for impeccable work. How could I think that my letters, prompted by my medical conscience, touching on the diagnosis, treatment and regimen of the patient Zhdanov, could serve in someone's hands almost 5 years later as the basis for creating a “case” about many doctors whom I did not even did you know? From my point of view, this letter deserved attention, and its purpose was to save the life of the patient, but in no case to slander anyone ... "

He received his nickname Colonel after Louisiana Governor Jimmy Davis awarded him the honorary rank of colonel in 1948 for his services. This, by the way, gave rise to another mayor - Nevada Governor Bob Miller, in honor of Parker's 85th birthday, to proclaim June 25, 1994 as Colonel's Day.

A characteristic feature of Parker's image was a huge Cuban cigar, which he did not let out of his mouth until the doctors forbade him to smoke. Then the Colonel had another addiction - he became interested in playing slot machines in a Las Vegas casino, in which, in fact, he lived out. last years.

The music world remembers and honors the name of the man who brought Elvis Presley to the very heights of glory.

According to the Orthodox calendar, they remember the Monk George Khozevita, Gregory the Wonderworker, the Monk Domnik of Constantinople and the Hieromartyr Isidore of Yuryevsky.

No less interesting is the holiday of Emelyan Perezimniki (Seeing carols), when it is customary to treat godfathers.

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Traditions of the day

The first half of the day should be spent away, and the second half is given permission to work.

If you feed godfather and godfather well, then godchildren are granted excellent health.

Get rid of the love spell, as well as protect yourself from new magical blows, perhaps thanks to the available items in every home.
For example, wearing a pin hidden from prying eyes will provide reliable protection against love spells.
Disconnecting it from clothing, you should pronounce the text three times:

“I disconnect the pin from the clothes and the love of the servant of God the servant of God (name)
I delete to the servant of Bogarab of God (name).
Then put it in a place where no one can find it.
It is best to bury it in the ground.
- Getting rid of the spell

On their part, soap and a towel should be given, thanks to which spoilage and any illness will be washed off the children.

Folk omens

A southerly wind or snowfall will indicate rainy summers, and a lack of winds will indicate warm summer days.

Definition of magical abilities

Choose the description that best suits you and find out what hidden magical abilities you have.

Pronounced telepathy - you can read and transmit thoughts at a distance, but it takes a lot of work to achieve your goal and believe in your hidden abilities.

Remember that the absence of a mentor and control of abilities will turn good into harm and no one knows how destructive the consequences of the devilish influence can be.

All signs of clairvoyance. With certain efforts and the support of higher powers, one can develop the gift of recognizing the future and seeing the past.

If the forces are not controlled by a mentor who can help to cope with them, breaks in temporary space are possible and evil will begin to seep into our world, gradually absorbing it with dark energy.

Be careful with your gift.

By all indications - a medium. We are talking about the ability to connect with spirits and even control the passage of time, but it takes years of practice and the right mentor.

If the balance of power is disturbed, then darkness will begin to absorb the remnants of goodness and strength that could serve for good, I will move into another hypostasis and darkness will reign.

By all indications - witchcraft. It is feasible for you to study and induce damage, the evil eye, you can do love spells and divination will not be an impossible task.

But everything must be used exclusively for good and done so that others do not suffer in their innocence from your superpowers, bestowed from above.

It takes at least 5 years of practice and the right mentor to develop inner strength.

Most of all you have telekinesis. With the right concentration and effort, which can be compressed into a spherical force, you will be able to move small, and over time, larger objects with the power of thought.

By choosing a mentor who has more power, you have a bright future that can be darkened by going to the dark side if there is not enough strength to keep yourself from the temptations of Satan.

You are a healer. Practical magic, conspiracies, spells and everything connected with this is not just words, but your life choice and power, which is given by the higher mind and this is not just like that, but for a sacred purpose that you will soon learn.

It will be like a vision, like a prophetic dream, which you will never be able to forget.

Remember that this power must be used only for good, otherwise darkness will swallow you up and this will be the beginning of the end.

If the windows “sweat”, then soon there will be a thaw.

January 21 is a holiday in the world

Postgraduate Student Day is celebrated, which takes place as a tribute to the date on which the “Regulations on scientists universities”, which happened in the RSFSR in 1925.

1782
Afanasy Grigorievich GRIGORIEV
(1782 - 13.5.186,
architect, representative of the Empire. His most famous buildings in Moscow are the Selezneva house (now the museum of A. S. Pushkin) and the house of Lopukhina-Stanitskaya (now the museum of L. N. Tolstoy).

1882
Pavel Alexandrovich FLORENSKY
(1882 - 8.12.1937),
philosopher.

1900
Oleg Vasilievich VOLKOV
(1900 - 10.2.1996),
writer.

A descendant of 7 admirals, including the discoverer of Antarctica Mikhail LAZAREV, the son of the director of the famous Russian-Baltic plant, was sent to camps for refusing to become an informant, where he spent more than 27 years. Survived, was fully rehabilitated and told about his life in the novel "Immersion in Darkness".

1902
Leonid Leonidovich OBOLENSKY
(1902 - 17.11.1991),
film actor, director, sound engineer, teacher.

His merits are especially great in the birth of Soviet sound cinema, but there is a dark spot in the life of a descendant of a princely family: being in captivity during the war. A military tribunal convicted him of treason, and the controversy around this has not subsided to this day.

1906
Boris Vasilievich ANDREEV

Honored Master of Sports, twenty-time champion of the USSR in bullet shooting, silver and bronze medalist of the 1952 Olympic Games

1906
Igor Alexandrovich MOISEEV
(1906 - 2.11.2007),
choreographer, People's Artist of the USSR.

1921
Valentin Ivanovich Ezhov
(1921, Samara - 8.5.2004, Moscow),
screenwriter ("Ballad of a Soldier", "Wings", "Thirty-Three", "White Sun of the Desert", "This sweet word is freedom!", "Sibiriada", "Red Bells" - all co-authored).

1940
Genrikh Aronovich ROTMAN
(1940),
clown, circus director. He performed on the carpet in tandem with Gennady MAKOVSKY.

1944
Rodion Rafailovich NAKHAPETOV
(1944),
film actor and film director.

1957
Tatyana Andreevna BOZHOK
(1957),
film actress.

1960
Dmitry Vadimovich KHARATYAN
(1960),
actor.

passed away

1775
Emelyan Ivanovich PUGACHEV
(~1740 or 1742 - 1775),
leader Peasants' War 1773-75, a Don Cossack who called himself Emperor PETER III.

1803
Kirill Grigorievich RAZUMOVSKY
(29.3.1728 - 1803),
Count, Field Marshal General, President of the Academy of Sciences.

He appeared in St. Petersburg after the elevation of his older brother Alexei, was sent abroad and returned to Russia as a completely European: he danced excellently, spoke French and German. All the beauties were crazy about him. At the age of 22, Razumovsky was appointed president of the Academy of Sciences "in the discussion of the special ability seen in him and the art acquired in the sciences." Being no worse than his German predecessors, he conducted business just as badly, but he managed to lend a helping hand to LOMONOSOV. In 1750, Kirill was elected hetman of Little Russia, and in 1764 he became a field marshal. According to CATHERINE II, "he was good-looking, of an original mind, very pleasant in communication and incomparably superior to his brother, who was also handsome." It is said that he kept the costume of his youth when he was still herding oxen, and liked to show it to his excessively puffy sons. From one of them he had to listen to a reasonable answer: "There is a huge difference between us: you are the son of a simple Cossack, and I am the son of a Russian field marshal."

1870
Alexander Ivanovich GERTSEN
(6.4.1812 - 1870),
revolutionary, journalist, writer

1916
Anatoly Leonidovich DUROV
(8.12.1864 - 1916),
founder of the famous circus dynasty.

1924
Vladimir Ilyich LENIN/ULYANOV/
(22.4.1870 - 1924),
founder of the Soviet state, first chairman of the Soviet people's commissars, the leader of the world proletariat.

Initially, the body of the deceased was going to be buried, but the endless stream of people who wanted to say goodbye to the leader in the Hall of Columns, which did not stop for a minute, day or night, led the comrades-in-arms to the idea of building a Lenin Mausoleum near the walls of the Kremlin.

1927
Mitrofan Efimovich PYATNITSKY
(3.7.1864 - 1927),
musician, collector and performer of Russian folk songs, founder and artistic director of the Russian Folk Choir, which after his death began to bear his name.

1944
Viktor Mikhailovich GUSEV
(30.1.1909 - 21 or 23.1.1944),
poet, playwright, screenwriter. He lived a little, for a long time there were no his plays in the repertoire of theaters, but the films by I. PYRYEV staged according to his scripts “The Pig and the Shepherd” and “At Six P.M. After the War” entered the golden fund of Soviet cinema. Songs to his poems brought true fame, among them “Song of Moscow”, “Song of the Artillerymen”, “Oh, Zimushka-Winter”, “Steppe Cavalry (Polyushko-Field)”, “There were two friends in our regiment”, "Vanya Kryuchkin".

1992
Viktor Leonidovich ILCHENKO
(2.1.1937 - 1992),
entertainer, who performed together with Roman Kartsev.

1999
Alexey Nikolaevich SAKHAROV
(17.4.1934 - 1999),
film director (“The Case with Polynin”, “A Man in His Place”, “The Taste of Bread”), laureate of the State Prize.

Events

After the death of Khan AKHMAT, who ruled the Great Horde (Crimean and Russian sources differ in dates), the Horde began to be ruled by his sons - "Akhmatov's children".

1711

On the way from St. Petersburg to Courland in Duderhof (now the village of Mozhaisky Leningrad region) died the husband of the niece of PETER I, Princess ANNA, the young Duke of Courland, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (b. 1692). Thus, her bitter widow's fate was predetermined for the next 20 years.

The young people, who got married in the fall, left the Russian capital a day earlier, but misfortune happened at the very first pit (post station where they changed horses). It is believed that the death of the nephew of the Prussian king came from drinking, because on the eve of his departure, the duke took it into his head to compete in drunkenness with the tsar himself. The 17-year-old widow returned to St. Petersburg to her mother, Empress Praskovia, but in the fall of the following year she was again sent to Courland. Mitava (modern Yelgava) became her dwelling place until 1730, when fate unexpectedly elevated her to the Russian throne under the name of Empress ANNA Ioannovna.

And no one asked her consent to marry the duke: the decision was made for political reasons. Peter, having cut through a window to Europe, decided by example Kievan Rus(then the daughters of Yaroslav the Wise were married off to Norwegian and Hungarian princes, and ANNA became the Queen of France altogether) to intermarry with European royal houses. Negotiations about the wedding of Alexei's son were already in full swing, when Elizabeth grew up, the tsar decided to marry her to the King of France LOUIS XV, and the first sign turned out to be middle daughter his brother Tsar IVAN V Anna. The fate of all the princesses was previously one: upbringing and life in the parental home, and then - the monastery cell. They were not given out for their own (serfs, no equal), but they did not go for foreign princes and princes, as this would be a mockery of the faith. But Peter sought to take advantage of the fruits of his victories over the Swedes after Poltava, the capture of Revel and Riga.

Having knocked out the Swedes from the Baltic states, he could have used military force against Courland, which by that time had become a backwater in Europe. But why spoil relations with the allies Poland and Prussia, who also claimed influence here? Later, Catherine II would successfully solve this problem, including not only Courland, but also Poland in the empire. Peter, having married the duke, and after his unexpected death, sent a widow to Mitava, under the pretext of protecting his niece, he could interfere in local affairs, since it was only 2 hours from Riga.

Without knowledge of the language, culture and customs of a foreign country, without friends, ties with the local nobility, without material support (they write that the widow was poor, like a church mouse), the stay of the duchess carried an indefinite "service" here. Apparently, because of her, meekly vegetating away from her homeland, they remembered when the grandson of Peter I, the young emperor PETER II, died. The boyars, who then formed the Supreme Privy Council, decided that Anna would agree to all their conditions and allow them to limit autocratic power. They miscalculated badly. And Anna, during the ten years of her reign, so zealously enjoyed all the previously inaccessible joys that “an unhygienic life early upset the health of the empress” (as it was written in the school textbook!) And brought her to the grave.

Empress EKATERINA II approved the plan to create an Orphanage for Orphans, Foundlings and Other Rootless Children. From all the spectacles arranged for money, a part of the income began to be collected in favor of the Orphanage. The main branch in Moscow was opened in 1764, the junior branch in St. Petersburg - in 1770.

The St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater hosted the premiere of N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov's opera May Night.

The idea to use the plot of Gogol's story for an opera was suggested to the composer in 1872 by his then-fiancee Nadezhda Nikolaevna PURGOLD. She, who became his wife that same summer, was dedicated to the opera written later.

In Afghanistan, the 9th company left the height of 3234, having completed the task assigned to it. In her native 345th Guards Airborne Regiment, she was greeted with an orchestra and an unfurled banner.

Yes, this is exactly that company - allegedly abandoned and forgotten, every single one of them died for no one knows why, when the war was already over. In fact, she fought with honor for another year, and then 39 soldiers and officers from her composition held the height for three weeks, thereby ensuring the passage of columns to the blockaded province of Khost. The paratroopers had to endure the most terrible battle on January 7-8, when they were attacked by an enemy more than ten times superior. They write that these were BIN LADEN's "black storks", who were then trained in Pakistan with the generous support of American intelligence services, and allegedly the current terrorist number 1 himself was wounded in that battle.

The company repelled 12 attacks, lost six, 28 people were wounded, machine gunners Junior Sergeant Vyacheslav ALEXANDROV and Private Andrei MELNIKOV were posthumously awarded the title of Heroes Soviet Union, and all other defenders of the height were awarded orders. The Mujahideen lost no less than 100 people.

The paratroopers were supported by artillery, and help came in time.

Gymnast Svetlana KHORKINA was awarded the title of Candidate by the Academic Council of the Moscow Academy of Physical Culture pedagogical sciences for her dissertation, in which she explored theoretical basis sports and gymnastic exercises and their didactic programming.

According to the materials of the site "a day in history"

Hug Day

- international holiday
All over the world, January 21 is celebrated as one of the best and most unusual holidays, which, according to some assumptions, was founded in 1986 by American students under the name Hug Day and in a few years the whole world learned about it. On this day, you can enclose anyone, even a person you do not know, in a warm friendly embrace. Why the date of the holiday was chosen on January 21 - today it is not known for sure
According to some legend, during a warm hug, people exchange their warmth with each other, but psychologists believe that, on the contrary, people who want to wrap you in their arms strive in this way to experience a feeling of comfort, love and security.
We accompany our whole life with hugs, we often hug relatives and friends to express our love, happiness, joy or gratitude.
The celebration of Hug Day on January 21 does not require any material costs from you.
You can generously reward everyone you wish with your warmth and love, congratulating on this bright holiday.

Day of Engineering Troops in Russia and Belarus

In Russia and Belarus, on January 21, the professional holiday of workers and military personnel of the engineering troops is celebrated.
The history of the first engineering troops of Russia dates back to the time of Peter I, when, by his Tsar’s Decree of January 21, 1701, he organized the “School of the Pushkar order” in Moscow, in which artillery officers and military engineers were trained.
For the first time in 1702, graduates of the "School of the Pushkar Order" were recruited into the mining units of the regular army of Russia.
In 1712, the engineering school was separated from the school of the Pushkar order and expanded by order of Peter I. Then, by the Decree of the Tsar in 1719, an engineering school was established in St. Petersburg.
In the royal Moscow and St. Petersburg schools, non-commissioned and chief officers were trained for the engineering troops.
The head of the engineering school in 1753 was the engineer-general Abram Petrovich Gannibal, the great-grandfather of A.S. Pushkin, the famous "Moor of Peter the Great". Engineering troops in all battles defended the Fatherland. The knowledge, courage and courage of military engineers have always contributed to the conduct of successful military operations both in Patriotic War 1812, during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and during the two world wars. Also, the engineering troops made a significant contribution during the liquidation of the consequences of the accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Grandmother's Day in Poland

In Poland, the kindest family holiday is celebrated every year. On this day, all adults and little grandchildren congratulate their grandmothers. On this day, grandchildren give gifts and flowers to all their grandmothers and always visit them. Grandmothers greet their grandchildren with joy, treating them with sweet pies. On this day, grandmothers gather together all their children and grandchildren.
As it turned out during the survey, 60% of Poles believe that they were raised by their grandmother. Also in the process of research conducted by Professor Harald Eyler, it became clear that most people consider the connection with their grandmother to be very strong.

Prosinets

- holiday of the Slavs
Prosinets is the Old Slavonic name for January, and “to shine” meant the rebirth of the Sun. This holiday was celebrated with water blessing. On this day they praised Heavenly Svarga - the Host of all Gods. Prosinets fell just in the middle of Winter, and the Slavs believed that on this holiday the sun's warmth returned to the Slavic lands at the behest of the gods, and the cold began to subside, the Slavs bathed in icy river water and created grandiose feasts.

Holiday according to the folk calendar

Emelin day, Emelyan winter

This day was named after the venerable Bishop Emilian of Cyzicus, who lived in the 9th century. If yesterday, on the eve of Ivan the Brazhnik, the happiness of girls who were given in marriage against their will was “washed down”, then guys were already “washed down” on Emelya.
The decision on the marriage of the Parents did not always coincide with the desire of the guy, therefore, it was believed among the people that the hated union would come to the point that it would “endure - fall in love” if the unwanted marriage was “filled with” strong drinks.
On this holiday, they treated the godfather with the godfather, it was believed among the people that this would bring health to the children. And godfather and godfather, coming to a dinner party, brought with them a towel and a bar of soap. At the first bath, a newborn should be wiped with this towel and washed with this particular soap, saying: “Water from a goose, thinness from my child!”.
On this day, there were customs to tell various fairy tales, stories and interesting fables. To do this, in the evening they gathered in the house with the whole family and took turns telling a story. From here a well-known saying came to us: “Meli, Emelya, your week!”. Among the people, Emelyan, like Ivan the hawk, was called Perezimnik. On this holiday, there was a quick change in the weather and the turn of winter to spring began.
Emelyan, at the same time, was considered to be "wind up with a snowstorm." On this day, a blizzard was considered a common occurrence.
The peasants followed the weather and signs. They noticed the direction of the wind that day. The wind blows from the south to Emelya, which means that there will be a summer rich in thunderstorms.
Name day January 21 with: Vasilisa, Vasily, Victor, Vladimir, George, Grigory, Dmitry, Evgeny, Emelyan, Ivan, Ilya, Mikhail, Pafnuty, Julian

Unusual holidays

— The day when last year's money runs out
- Proud Feminist Day
- The day of conquering your temptations
- Day of lovers of outdoor recreation
- Day of admiring one's own charisma

January 21st in history

1924 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, political and statesman, founder of Soviet state(born in 1870).
1925 - Recognition of the USSR by Japan. Japanese troops leaving the borders Far East.
1925 - The Krasny Proletarian oil refinery began operating in Makhachkala.
1926 - Zabit Rizvanov (d. 1992), an outstanding Lezgi poet and writer, publicist, collector of folklore (epos "Sharvili"), was born. One of the authors of the book "History of the Lezgins". Author of poetic and prose books "The Stream of Shakhnabat", "My Muse", "The Wind Loves Space", "The Green Banner of the Prophet", "South of Samur". One of those who stood at the origins of the LND "Sadval" ("Unity").
1934 - XII Congress of the CP(b)U decided to transfer the capital of Ukraine from Kharkov to Kyiv.
1941 - Placido Domingo, Spanish opera singer, was born.
1943 - Soviet troops liberated Stavropol from the Nazis.
1949 - The Memorial House-Museum of V. I. Lenin was opened in Gorki Leninskiye.
1949 - Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of China due to a long string of defeats for the Nationalist army.
1952 - Italian scientists announced that the Leaning Tower of Pisa should fall in 2151.
1954 - The first nuclear submarine Nautilus is launched in the USA.
1968 - Beginning of the Siege of Khe Sanh, one of the most famous and controversial battles of the Vietnam War.
1976 - Commencement of operation of the Franco-English supersonic passenger aircraft Concorde.
1977 - Abortion is legal in Italy.
2001 - Paul McCartney became the first musician whose fortune exceeded one billion dollars.

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If you are sad today or just have nothing to do, then remember that on such a day people celebrate Hug Day. And it doesn’t matter who you hug, the main thing is to do it with all your heart.

International holiday 21 January

international hug day

All over the world on January 21, people celebrate such a celebration. It can be equated to one of the most unusual. It was founded in 1986 in the USA. Then it rapidly gained popularity around the world. If you believe the traditions of the holiday, then on such a day you can even hug a stranger. Despite the fact that the celebration is still too young, it is difficult to find its author. No one knows for sure who came up with this idea first.

It is also not known why the date of January 21 was chosen. Some say that the initiators were students. It was girls and boys that could hug on such a day without any intimate background. It is also worth noting that it is students who have been holding various flash mobs in recent years. It is also worth noting that there is another hug day, which is celebrated on December 4th. But this event is not so popular.

Psychologists say that people who want to hug you subconsciously hope for safety, love and comfort. But it is hugs that accompany us throughout our lives. We always hug friends and acquaintances - at a meeting, parting or congratulations.

Most importantly, the celebration of January 21 does not require any material costs. You just need to generously reward everyone you want with warmth.

Other events on January 21

Engineering Troops Day

The engineering troops of Russia and Belarus celebrate their professional holiday every year on January 21. The engineering troops begin their history with the Decree of Peter I of 1701 on January 21. Then a school was created in Moscow - the School of the Pushkar Order. Artillery officers and military engineers were trained in such institutions. But the first miner units of the army began to be completed from school graduates.

Peter I in 1712 ordered to separate the engineering school from the school of the Pushkar order and then expand it. Then, according to the decree, the St. Petersburg Engineering School and others are being built. Once the central body of the engineering troops was the Office of the main artillery and fortification. It is worth noting that during the defense of Sevastopol from 1854 to 1855, the engineering troops took the main part and were able to bravely withstand the battle.

Also, the engineering troops made a significant contribution to the elimination of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Prosinets This is how people call the month of January. They celebrate it with water blessing. On such a day it is necessary to praise the Heavenly Svarga - the Host of all gods. Shine - means the rebirth of the Sun. Prosinets himself comes in the middle of winter. At such a moment, it is believed that the cold will subside and heat will return to the earth by the will of the gods.

In Vedic temples, on taco day they remember how in ancient times Kryshen gave people fire. After all, people died from the cold during the Great Glaciation. But then Kryshen spilled the magical Surya from the heavenly Svarga onto the Earth. So people believe that all the water on January 21 becomes healing. That is why believers bathe in the waters. But in the late afternoon, the Slavs gave grandiose feasts. At such feasts, milk and other dairy products were required to be present.

Grandmother's Day in Poland

In Poland, every year on January 21, Grandmother's Day is celebrated. So the grandchildren congratulate their grandmothers and can give them their handmade gifts. This day has gone down in history for the first time since 1964. When a poll was given on such a day, it turned out that 60% of Poles believe that their feelings and moral principles were presented by the upbringing of their grandmothers.

In the course of the study, which was also created by Professor Harald Eyler, it became clear that the majority of respondents from 16 to 80 years old consider their relationship with their grandmother to be stable and strong. All grandmothers on such a holiday should be given flowers and gifts. And don't forget to visit them. Grandmothers will gladly meet their grandchildren and treat them with sweet pies.

Event in the folk calendar on January 21 Emelin day, Emelyan winter

This day received such a name in memory of the Monk Bishop Emilian of Cyzicus. This man lived in the 9th century. If Ivan the hawk, that is, the day before, the happiness of girls who marry against their will - you have to drink it down, then the turn of the guys came to Emelya. The parental decision to marry did not always coincide with the desire of the groom. But, if such a union is poured with strong drinks, then marriage will be according to the principle - endure, fall in love.

On such a day, it was also customary to treat a godfather with a godfather. It was believed that such actions could bring health to children. When godfather and godfather came to a dinner party, they brought with them a gift - a bar of soap and a towel. When a child bathed for the first time in his life, he should be washed with this soap and wiped with a gift towel.

In addition, there was also the custom of telling fairy tales and fables. For such stories, the whole family gathered in the house in the evening. If there was a snowstorm on such a day, then this meant a common occurrence. But it was worth noticing the direction of the wind. If the wind blows from the south, then the summer will be rich in thunderstorms.

Folk omens for January 21

If the godfathers are well treated, the children will grow up healthy. Godfathers should also give gifts to their godchildren in return. In the old days, they gave soap and a towel to their parents so that the baby would grow up white and ruddy. If you wash a child with such soap, it will save him from illness and the evil eye.
The wind blew from the south - to thunderstorms in the summer. North wind - to increase the cold. Windless weather - to a clear and warm summer.
The day turned out to be clear - to the drought.
What is the weather on Yemelyan, this will be the whole of August. If it snows, August will be rainy (however, like spring). If the day turned out to be sunny, the end of summer will be hot.
If there is a snowstorm on Yemelyan, it is better not to go on the road. The blizzard that day was considered especially strong and dangerous.
The dog in the yard sleeps, curled up in a ball - to the cold.
The windows in the house fog up - to the thaw.
A clear starry sky - to the cold, a starless sky - to cloudy weather.
The moon shines brightly - to frost.
If a person falls ill on this day, he will recover soon.
On January 21 in the morning it was not allowed to work. If urgent, urgent matters arose, they were transferred to the second half. However, in the afternoon only such things were allowed to be done.
To pass the time - went to visit each other and told at the table interesting stories. This is where the saying “Meli, Emelya is your week” came from.
A strong cold on this day - the heat will not come soon.
If a guy in the near future was to marry not out of love, he certainly needed to get drunk that day - so that later it would be better to get used to an unloving wife.

Who celebrates name day on January 21

Vasily, Vasilisa, Victor, Vladimir, George, Dmitry, Evgeny, Emelyan, Ivan, Ilya, Mikhail, Julian.