Two weeks after New Year's Eve, the Orthodox are putting back the cover for the New Year of the Julian calendar.
If it was abandoned in 1918, after the Bolshevik revolution, in favor of our Gregorian calendar, the tradition continues among the Slavs, renowned for their sense of celebration.
"There are still many superstitions around this evening today: you must not sleep at night or the year will be sluggish, you must not borrow money either or we will spend the months to come. to be repaid
, ”says Mickaël Petrossian, head of the Russo-Armenian grocery store created in 1920, and which has celebrated this event since his childhood.
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While many restaurants are getting up to speed, it is also fashionable to bring together the whole family and lonely friends at home.
“With Slavic music, gypsy violins and flowing vodka,”
he continues.
The
"tamada"
- translate "master of ceremonies" - opens the evening with a toast to the dead.
Each…
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