Student's Day is one of the favorite holidays of a huge number of young people. During their student days, almost everyone is noisy and merry on January 25 and congratulates all Tatyans in the district. After all, Tatyana's day appeared earlier by as much as a dozen and a half centuries.
Instructions
Step 1
In the III century AD, after the brutal torture and forced to renounce the faith, the abbess of a Christian church named Tatiana. Her refusal to worship a pagan deity and her frantic Christian prayer caused the deity to fly to pieces, falling off the pedestal. The abbess was executed, and later she was canonized. Students, scientists still celebrate Tatiana's Day.
Step 2
Elizabeth I chose Tatyana as the patroness of the Russian students, signing in 1755 a decree on the construction of the future Moscow State University on January 25. At first, the new holiday was interpreted as the day the university was founded and was celebrated very modestly. The festive program included only small celebrations after the prayer service in the university church.
Step 3
After some ten years, the holiday began to be divided into official and unofficial parts. The official prayer service remained obligatory, the rector made speeches and awarded the most distinguished students, excursions were conducted in the halls of the educational institution. And then the fun began. A multitude of students filled the central streets of Moscow, merry din and songs were heard from everywhere. The newspaper "Moskovskiye Vedomosti", founded by the university, received cat concerts and broken windows from students as gifts.
Step 4
Wealthy students preferred to walk in the Hermitage - the most prestigious restaurant in the capital, whose employees prepared for the influx of students in advance, changing the luxurious decoration of the premises to the most modest one. But more often than not, differences by class on this holiday were not to be found: changing expensive clothes for simple ones, the rich had fun on a par with the poor, teachers joined the students, and even graduates could not resist the temptation to become a student again for one day. The police were sympathetic to the celebration, and students who had gone too far were even taken home in the morning, with addresses written on their backs.
Step 5
After 100 years, graduates of the University began to meet on this day, making the annual celebration on Tatiana's Day a tradition.
Step 6
The Revolution greatly changed the holiday, turning it into the Day of Proletarian Students, and the church of the patroness of students was given over to the library hall. Celebrating Tatyana's day was and is now impossible at all. But the University grew and got stronger; over the years, the day of its foundation did not become less honored. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the holiday began to play with new, bright colors and to this day remains one of the favorite among young people.
