Student's Day January 25, 2018— one of the most popular holidays in January. The ancient tradition of celebrating Tatiana's Day and Student's Day on January 25 and goes back to the 18th century, when Elizaveta Petrovna, with one decree, linked two wonderful traditions— International Student's Day and Tatiana's Day of Honor.

On this day, we all congratulate our family and friends on Tatiana's Angel Day.

I congratulate all Tatyans!
May your house be full of happiness
May the family be healthy
And for those who are just growing up,
Whom Tatyana was named,
I wish you success, joy,
And in the future, great love!
Tatyana's day is a beautiful holiday,
He is full of joy, goodness!
Let the thoughts be beautiful
The spirit is strong and the soul is bright!

On this holiday, Tatyana's Day,
Congratulations to all Tatyans.
And the student is cheerful today,
It's not just that he's drunk.

Let the intercessor Tatiana
Will not leave you in trouble.
And luck is sure
You meet everywhere.

The current year has now begun
No worries and no hassle.
May this holiday be winter
Only joy will bring.

In Russia, every year on January 25, the whole country celebrates Tatiana's Day, which is better known as the Day of Russian Students. It is this January day that is considered one of the most beloved and joyful holidays, especially for students. It became a public holiday in 2005, although it has been actively celebrated in Russia since 1755.

I congratulate students, professors and all Russians on the bright winter holiday of students and, of course, all the wonderful Tatyans on their name days. We wish your dreams to come true, life was bright, full of only pleasant events and people. Even though you are always lucky in your studies, at work, and on your personal front, let the trouble not notice you, and every new day acquires a wide variety of colors.

Happy holiday, Tatiana's day!

The history of the emergence of Tatiana's Day

The Russians associate the date of the celebration with the day of the foundation of Moscow University.

It was established by the Decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna on January 25, 1755. She took action to support the initiative of Ivan Shuvalov (Count) and Mikhail Lomonosov. The Empress's decree also served as an excellent gift on the birthday of Ivan Shuvalov's mother. Also, on the day of all students, the memory of the holy Martyr Tatiana, who is rightfully considered the patroness of students and teachers, is glorified.

In 1791, the temple of Moscow University (in one of its buildings a house church was created) was consecrated by Orthodox ministers of the church in honor of St. Tatiana. It was closed already in 1918. Then it housed a club, a student theater of Moscow State University, and since 1995 its premises have been transferred to the Orthodox Church.
In Russia, Student's Day has always been celebrated noisy and loudly. Festivities were held throughout the country, and no one shied away from the holiday that day.

Considering that in 2007 Tatyana's Day (Student's Day) was added to the list of 7 memorable dates of the Russian Federation, and in 2005 Vladimir Putin awarded him the honorary title of a nationwide one, the Day of Russian Students is rightfully one of the most revered and beloved in the country.

It should also not be forgotten that Tatiana's day is not only a secular, but also a church holiday. Priests throughout the country honor the memory of the Martyr Tatiana.

The tradition of celebrating Tatiana's day

In the 60s and 70s of the 19th century, this holiday was celebrated with a huge scale, noise and had its own traditions.

At first, Tatiana's Day and the then unofficial Student Day was celebrated only in Moscow, but over time it spread throughout the country, where the universities were located.

In the pre-revolutionary period, all festivities took place on the street. Students and teachers celebrated the holiday in the fresh air. The scenario of the festivities was as follows: dinner, prayer services to the holy Martyr Tatiana, solemn events within the walls of the university, festive entertainment that could continue until morning. On this day, the police did not arrest students who drank too much, but, on the contrary, helped them in every possible way.

Tatiana's day - is it a fun holiday of students or a day of remembrance of the holy martyrs? Read our material about saints named Tatiana.

The power of faith and will. An offering to the holy martyrs, confessors and martyrs Tatians

What unites people who bear the same name? According to the prevailing popular opinion that has a certain basis, all namesakes have something in common in appearance, character, behavior, therefore, keeping in mind the properties of a certain name, you can know a lot in advance about the person who wears it. In the modern world, it is popular to look for the hidden meaning of names. This approach is based on the belief that a person can control his own destiny and, for example, the destiny of his children, if he performs the right actions in the right order. Of course, such an attitude towards life can in no way be called Christian. A Christian lives in the confidence that his life is not in the power of the elements, planets, good or evil spirits, but in the hands of God.

An Orthodox person knows that people who bear the same name are united by one Heavenly patron, with whom they have close prayer communication. No wonder in Orthodoxy it is customary to congratulate birthday people on the Day of the Angel, on the name day - the day of remembrance of the saint whose name you bear. According to old memory, a person is called a “birthday man”, congratulating him on his birthday.

Since ancient times, people have tried to learn more about "their" saint, so that, through imitation of him, they themselves approach the ideal. Today, on the eve of the day of St. Tatiana, let's talk about what we know about this name and the holy women who bore it.

Tatiana's day - St. Tatiana of Rome

Interesting that name Tatiana, Tatiana despite its Roman origin, it is considered traditionally Russian. In the same and in derivative forms, it is common in many Slavic countries, but in the English-speaking world, comparatively until the end of the twentieth century, it was extremely rare.

Of course, the main merit in the popularization of this name belongs to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, who immortalized "Tatiana's sweet ideal" in the novel "Eugene Onegin". They say that before the appearance of this literary work, the name Tatiana was more peasant than noble, but soon the situation changed radically. Name Tatyana became almost the most popular female name in Russia.

In his novel, Pushkin not only created a captivating female image, but for centuries to come determined the model by which Russian women began to build their relationships with the opposite sex. But if the initiative of Tatyana Larina, her bold declaration of love to her chosen one, is relevant for the secular worldview, then her line of behavior in the final part of the novel is more important to the Orthodox. In a strictly Christian spirit, her response to Onegin, who is seeking love is no longer a girl, but a noble lady, a princess is sustained: “But I was given to another; I will be faithful to him forever. "

Once having chosen her path, Tatyana does not retreat from it, remaining faithful to what seems to her most important. This trait of Tatyan's character is probably the most valuable Christian virtue that bearers of this name are endowed with. The strong-willed qualities of Tatyan also find their application in the secular arena. Leafing through the pages of the press, we will be surprised how many singers, actresses and sportswomen in our Fatherland bear this name. But it's time to turn to church history, to those names that are sacred to every Christian.

The first in seniority should be remembered. It is gratifying to see how this name is returning to our daily life. The doors of the Holy Tatiana Church at Moscow State University are open, and all students know that, because it was on January 12 (25 in the new style), 1755, on the day of commemoration of the holy Martyr Tatiana, that Empress Elizaveta Petrovna signed the Foundation Decree. It is joyful to learn that churches are opening at universities in various cities of Russia, and all of them are named in the name of the holy Martyr Tatiana of Rome.

Tatyana's day - the power of faith and will

The life of Saint Tatiana is full of various miracles, surprising and frightening, however, leaving them aside, let us turn to the two main moments of her life: her martyr's testimony of faith in Christ and her earthly deed.

Born into a noble Roman family of secret Christians, Tatiana from childhood chose the path that she consistently followed throughout her future life. Refusing to marry, she devoted all her strength to the church ministry, was made a deaconess in one of the Roman churches, fasted, prayed, looked after the sick, helped those in need, and so served God.

Deaconess Tatiana was captured and, after long torment, put to death during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus (222-235).

For many centuries the Orthodox Church has venerated only one Tatiana - Tatiana of Rome. But in the twentieth century, everything changed. The persecutions that swept across the country for the faith revealed to the world a whole host of holy martyrs Tatians, and the first of them was the noblest - the passion-bearer Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, daughter of Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

The second oldest, she possessed the strongest will and firmness of character. In their memoirs, her contemporaries often emphasize that it was Tatyana Nikolaevna who occupied the leading position among the rest of the royal children. People who knew her noted in her "an exceptional tendency to establish order in life and a highly developed consciousness of duty." Remembering her, Baroness S.K. Buxgewden wrote: “She had a mixture of sincerity, straightforwardness and tenacity, a penchant for poetry and abstract ideas. She was closest to her mother and was her and her father's favorite. Absolutely devoid of pride, she was always ready to abandon her plans, if there was an opportunity to walk with her father, read to her mother, do everything that was asked of her. "

Following the example of her Heavenly patroness, Grand Duchess Tatiana devoted most of her time and energy to helping those in need. So she initiated the creation in Russia of the "Committee of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna for providing temporary assistance to victims of military disasters", which set itself the goal of providing assistance to people in need due to military circumstances.

During the First World War, having passed the nursing exams, the senior princesses worked in the Tsarskoye Selo hospital. As a surgical nurse of mercy, the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna took part in complex operations and, when required, every day, even in her own, went to the hospital.

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna, along with all her sisters and brother, was brutally murdered only because she was born into a royal family and remained faithful to her faith, her family and her Fatherland to the end.

Today, in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, along with the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, there are nine more names of ascetics who testified their loyalty to Christ during the mass persecution of the Church in the 1930s. The list of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia is growing from year to year, and maybe soon we will witness the glorification of other Tatians.

According to the official calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, we honor the memory of the Monk Martyr Tatyana on October 8/21, Confessor Tatyana (Byakireva) on December 10/23; Monk Martyr Tatyana (Gribkova) September 1/14; Martyr Tatiana (Grimblit) 10/23 September, Martyr Tatiana (Egorova) 10/23 December; Martyr Tatiana (Kushnir) in the Cathedral of the New Martyrs; The Monk Martyr Tatyana (Fomicheva) November 20 / December 3 and the Monk Martyr Tatyana (Chekmazova) September 28 / October 11.

We know a lot about some of them, only the most general information about others has come down to us. But there is something in common that unites all these great women who, as we believe, stand at the Throne of God near their Heavenly patroness - Saint Tatiana of Rome, and who repeated her feat centuries later here, on Russian soil.

(1879-1937), whose memory is celebrated in the Cathedral of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia and in the Cathedral of the Butovo New Martyrs, was born into the family of a cabman in the village of Shchukino, which has now become one of the Moscow districts. In 1896, the girl entered the Kazan Golovinsky Convent, where she lived for almost thirty years, until the Bolsheviks closed the monastery. The novice Tatiana returned home and settled with her sister. In 1937, the young communist Kuznetsov, who rented a room in the Gribkovs' house, reported Tatyana to the authorities, accusing her of not only “doing handicraft - quilting blankets,” but also receiving many people, including the “monastic audience”. "She has good acquaintances with the higher clergy", and, quite a fantastic accusation, "she retained gold reserves, since in the first years of the revolution she collected gold to help Tsar Nicholas." Despite the testimony of a false witness, the novice was arrested not immediately, but a little later. Tatiana responded negatively to all accusations during interrogations and did not plead guilty to counter-revolutionary activities. However, the NKVD troika in the Moscow region sentenced her to death precisely for “anti-Soviet agitation”. Novice Tatiana was shot at the Butovo training ground near Moscow and buried in an unknown mass grave on September 14, 1937.

From the life of this saint, we can take out only indirect information about her character and the life she lived. She spent many years in the monastery and was deeply worried about everything that happened to the clergy and laity during the years of persecution. After leaving the devastated monastery, she tried to preserve the monastic way of life in the world and, in order not to embarrass her relatives, continued to work at home. Having suffered on earth from the cruelty of her neighbors, the novice Tatiana acquired a martyr's crown from the hands of the Savior.

O ) we know much more. In 2007, our site published dedicated to the feat of this amazing woman.

Martyr Tatiana was born on December 14, 1903 in the city of Tomsk in the family of a civil servant, received a Christian upbringing in the family, and was educated in the Tomsk gymnasium. After the death of her father, having barely finished school herself, she started working as a teacher in the children's colony "Klyuchi".

Already at this moment, the future martyr showed herself as a true Tatiana, from the very beginning of her life, laying down her life path as a feat of helping others. She deliberately chose self-denial, devoting herself to fulfilling the commandments of the Lord.

In the difficult years of the civil war and repressions, she made it a rule for herself to almost all the money she earned, as well as what she managed to collect in the churches of the city of Tomsk, exchange for food and things and transfer them to those inmates of the Tomsk prison, whom no one else cared about. Tatiana asked the administration which of the prisoners did not receive food parcels, and passed them on to them. This is how she met many outstanding bishops and priests of the Russian Orthodox Church who were languishing in the prisons of Siberia.

For helping prisoners, Tatiana herself was repeatedly sent to prison on charges of yu in counter-revolutionary activities. She was quickly released from prison, but such selfless activities annoyed the punishers more and more, and they began to collect information for her final arrest.

Having decided that she "has a connection with the counter-revolutionary element of the clergy," she was exiled to Turkestan, but soon released again. Tatyana Nikolaevna left for Moscow and settled near the church of St. Nicholas in Pyzhy, where she began to sing in the kliros. Returning from prison, she even more actively helped the prisoners who remained in exile and who were in prisons, many of whom she now knew personally.

When Tatyana Nikolaevna again fell into exile, she studied medicine right in the camp and began to work as a medical assistant. After a quick release, she settled in the Vladimir region, worked in a hospital, continued to help prisoners and maintain active correspondence with them. These letters were sometimes the only consolation of her correspondents, who did not know how to thank Tatiana Nikolaevna for her support. “In the feat of mercy and help, in the reliability and breadth of this help, she had no equal. In her heart, which contained Christ, no one was already cramped, ”hegumen Damaskin (Orlovsky) writes about her.

In September 1937, the NKVD officers broke off this correspondence in mid-sentence - Tatiana Nikolaevna went to prison, not having time to finish writing another letter.

The confession of the martyr Tatiana and the main words in which her whole life was concentrated was her answer during interrogation: “I have never conducted any anti-Soviet agitation anywhere. To phrases when, pitying me, they said to me: “You would better dress and eat than send money to someone,” I replied: “You can spend money on beautiful clothes and a sweet piece, but I prefer to dress more modestly, simpler eat, and send the rest of the money to those in need. "

Tatyana Nikolaevna Grimblit was shot on September 23, 1937 and buried in an unknown mass grave at the Butovo training ground near Moscow.

Tatiana Prokopyevna Egorova, martyr Tatiana Kasimovskaya, was born on January 15, 1879 in the village of Giblitsy, Kasimovsky district, Ryazan province, into a poor peasant family. Tatiana Prokopyevna did not learn to read and write, before the revolution she was engaged in trade in manufacture with her parents and husband. In 1932, the Yegorovs' farm was confiscated, and they themselves were expelled from the collective farm. My husband and two sons had to go to work in Moscow. They never came home again.

Tatiana Prokopyevna was arrested as an "active churchwoman" in November 1937.

As in all previous cases, the investigation tried in vain to convince Tatyana Prokopyevna that she was an active counter-revolutionary, without giving any evidence. The 58-year-old peasant woman denied all accusations, refused to sign the protocol and uttered the amazing words: "Jesus endured, and I will also endure and endure, I am ready for anything."

The "troika" of the NKVD in the Ryazan region sentenced Tatyana Prokopyevna Yegorova to death.

Martyr Tatiana (Tatiana Ignatievna Kushnir) was born in 1889 in the Chernigov province into a peasant family. She was arrested, sentenced to two years in prison and sent to Karaganda, in 1942, among a large group of religious women, she was shot by the verdict of the Karaganda regional court.

Novice Tatiana (Fomicheva) was born in 1897 into a peasant family in the village of Nadovrazhnoe near the town of Istra near Moscow. At a fairly early age in 1916, she entered a monastery as a novice. When, after the revolution, the Borisoglebsk monastery, where she was in obedience, was closed, she returned to her parents.

In 1931, the authorities began to persecute the monks and nuns of the closed monasteries, because, even living in the world, they tried to adhere to the monastic charter. So the OGPU created a "case" against the nuns of the Holy Cross Monastery in the Podolsk region. Several sisters did not leave the monastery, in the buildings of which a rest house was located, partly settling down to work in this rest house, partly settling in neighboring villages and doing needlework. Everyone went to pray at the Ilyinsky Church in the village of Lemeshevo. The church choir also consisted of nuns and novices from closed monasteries. Among others, the novice Tatiana Fomicheva sang in the choir.

In May 1931, the authorities arrested seventeen nuns and novices who had settled near the closed Exaltation of the Cross Monastery. The novice Tatiana was also in prison. She spent the period from 1931 to 1934 in a forced labor camp. Having freed herself, Tatiana settled in the village of Sheludkovo, Volokolamsk region, where she helped Archpriest Vladimir in the Trinity Church, was arrested with him in 1937, categorically refused to confirm the accusations of the investigators, not wanting to stipulate anyone. Father Vladimir was shot, novice Tatiana sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. There her earthly life ended.

It is amazing how courageous these modest middle-aged peasant women, novices, who gave their whole lives to help their neighbors, who worked in difficult conditions of hunger and devastation, met the lies, slander and threats thrown in their faces. They went to death, firmly believing that they were going to meet Christ. May God grant us, in our peaceful and calm time, to have at least a drop of such a sincere and firm faith.

Holy Tatians, pray to God for us!

The month of January is very rich in great holidays! However, at the end of the month, on January 25, we celebrate two events at once - Tatyana's day and student's day. But not all of us are familiar with the history of these holidays, so now let's talk about them.

Holy Martyr Tatiana and the history of her holiday

Saint Tatiana was born in Rome into a wealthy family and was brought up according to Christian canons. The girl did not seek to burden herself with family ties, but went into religion, fasted, helped the poor and sick. This was the third century of our era, the heyday of paganism, at this time the authorities oppressed Christians and forbade them to practice this religion, up to the death penalty. Once Tatiana was caught praying, the girl was seized, and she was doomed. Before the death sentence, Tatiana prayed persistently, the Lord God heard the suffering prayers and sent an earthquake to the earth, as a result of which the ruler himself, his wards and priests died. The ruler was possessed by a demon, and during his bodily death a demon jumped out of him and fled with terrible screams and screams. The people around accused Tatyana of everything and perpetrated lynching on her: they gouged out her eyes, cut her body, but the girl was strong in spirit, she endured and prayed all the time, turning to the Lord, so that he would forgive these people and help them open their eyes. God heard her prayers and sent angels to earth. The eight people who beat Tatiana suddenly regained faith and fell at her feet. However, the authorities longed for her death, convincing everyone that she was a witch. Witnesses of those times claimed that during the severe beatings, not blood flowed from her wounds, but milk, the body smelled sweet and did not die. Then the girl was thrown into a cage with a tiger, the animal did not touch her, only came up and began to lick her wounds. As a result, Tatiana was executed by beheading. Before her death, she was constantly in prayer, all the time she turned to the Lord God without stopping to preach Christianity. Over time, she was recorded in the book of saints, where she is honored as a martyr who died for her confession. Tatyana is honored in Russia, her day is considered special, many Christians try to get into the temple on the great bright holiday and worship the icon of the holy martyr.

Once the great ruler Elizaveta Petrovna approved the order that entrusted the opening of the university on the basis of two gymnasiums. And this date coincided with the day of the death of the great martyr Tatiana! It is logical that on the same day the St. Petersburg students began to celebrate the student's day, and then this tradition quickly spread throughout Russia. The students began to celebrate this day in their own way, held prayers and sang in the church choir. This became a great tradition and lasted until the arrival of the Soviets. The new government closed all churches and temples, and sought to destroy the student tradition. After a long period, when the government changed, religion again began to enter every home, holy church places began to open and churches were rebuilt, along with this, the revival of student traditions began. Students celebrate this day very cheerfully and fervently, gather in companies, play tricks on teachers and even go sledging!

Tatiana's Day Celebration Traditions

In the middle of the last century, the feast of St. Tatiana was distinguished by the joy of students and a special folklore celebration. The students arranged company gatherings and sang songs loudly, laughed, joked until late at night. However, after the October Revolution, this holiday was not often remembered, and it began to be forgotten. After a while, in 1995, the church of the holy great martyr at Moscow University was reconstructed and the customs of the celebration began to return little by little.

Student's day celebration in modern times

Students of all educational institutions are looking forward to their official day and are carefully preparing for it. Usually they gather in companies in the evening and arrange real noisy fun! It is not a sin for a student to "sip" a little wine on this day, even the most disciplined student of the institution wants to celebrate this holiday vividly! And only on this day, not a single passer-by will condemn the loud laughter of the student company and the singing of loud songs, embracing three and four. Even an angry concierge will let a student on a spree into the hostel, and if too "sober" will offer help to get to his room.

In 2006, President V. Putin signed an order stating that Student's Day became an official state holiday of the Russian Federation.

Along with the history of the holiday, it became interesting, but

In 1791, in the name of the holy martyr Tatiana, a church at Moscow University was also consecrated. Since then, Saint Tatiana has been considered the patroness of students and teachers.

In 1918 the temple was closed. At first, a club was located in its premises, and from 1958 to 1994 - the student theater of Moscow State University. In January 1995, the building was returned to the church.

According to the descriptions of contemporaries, before the revolution, the celebration of Tatiana's Day as a university holiday was a real event for all of Moscow.

It began with an official ceremony in the assembly hall of the university, where professors, teachers, students and graduates from all over Russia gathered. After the prayer service, the academic report and the rector's speech, everyone stood up, sang "God Save the Tsar!" Then the unofficial part began, which often lasted until the morning, the festivities. In their circle, graduates of the university celebrated the holiday, among whom were professors and officials, doctors and lawyers, industrialists and businessmen. Towards evening, many gathered in the hall of the Big Moscow tavern in the city center, where speeches and toasts were made, after which they rode in troikas to the Yar restaurant, which served only the university audience that day.

In modern Russia, traditionally on this day, students arrange mass festivities.

On January 25, 2016, the All-Russian campaign "Tatiana's Ice" will be held for all students of the country. Holiday programs will be organized on ice rinks in the capital and regions of Russia. The central platform will be the GUM Skating Rink on Red Square.

The Russian Orthodox Church remembers on this day the holy martyr Tatiana, who is considered the patroness of all Russian students. On this day, all women who bear the name Tatiana celebrate their name days (the ancient name "Tatiana" in translation from Greek means "organizer").

According to church tradition, Saint Tatiana lived in Rome at the turn of the 2nd-3rd centuries, during the cruel persecution of Christians. Her father, a noble Roman, secretly professed Christianity and raised his daughter in a Christian spirit. Tatiana did not marry and gave all her strength to serve God. During that period, all power in Rome was concentrated in the hands of Ulpian, the persecutor of Christians. Tatiana was captured and tried to force her to sacrifice to the idol. But in the temple of Apollo, where she was brought, according to legend, the virgin offered up a prayer to Christ - and an earthquake occurred: the pagan idol split into pieces, and the fragments of the temple buried the priests under them.

The pagans tortured Tatiana. During the torture, many miracles happened: either the executioners, for whose insight the saint prayed, believed in Christ, then the angels deflected blows from the martyr, then milk flowed from her wounds instead of blood and a fragrance spread in the air. After terrible torment, Tatiana appeared before her executioners and judges even more beautiful than before. The pagans despaired of breaking the faith of the sufferer and executed her. Together with Tatiana, her father was also executed.

In recent years, in Russia, the age-old traditions of celebrating St. Tatiana's Day are based on the common prayer of the Russian Church and higher education.

Traditionally, the center of church celebrations on the Day of Russian Students, which is also the day of memory of the patroness of higher education in Russia - Martyr Tatyana, was a church in honor of this saint at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov on Mokhovaya street.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, on the day of Russian students, for the first time performed the divine liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The service was attended by the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy, rector of MGIMO Anatoly Torkunov, rector of GITIS Karina Melik-Pashayeva, as well as professors, teachers and students of secular and church universities in Moscow, student delegations from other regions of Russia. At the end of the liturgy, the student youth continued their fellowship at student festivities near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

On January 25, students of Russian educational institutions celebrate Student's Day. On hearing the second name of the holiday - Tatiana's Day. But who is Tatiana, and what does she have to do with high school?

13 interesting facts about the holiday of Tatiana's Day

Fact 1

Tatiana's Day is originally an Orthodox holiday. On this day, the church honors the memory of the great martyr Tatiana of Rome.

Her life story is amazing. Tatiana was the daughter of famous and wealthy parents, but as a child she adopted the Christian faith, for which she paid with her life. As a young girl, she served in the temple, helped the disadvantaged and sick. In those days, paganism prevailed in Rome, and any disbelief was severely punished. The Roman governors learned that Tatiana professes a foreign religion, and demanded that she publicly renounce Christianity. But Tatiana was adamant. She was tortured and tortured, but nothing could force Tatyana to abandon God. Powerless to change anything, the executioners killed Tatiana, but did not kill her faith. And now, for more than one and a half thousand years, the church has been venerating the feat of Tatiana. Every year on January 25, services in honor of St. Tatiana are held in all the churches of the country.

Fact 2

On January 25, 1755, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna signed a decree establishing a university in Moscow. The idea and draft of the order was prepared by Mikhail Lomonosov himself with his comrade, Lieutenant General Ivan Shuvalov. Subsequently, the day of January 25 was annually celebrated at the university as his birthday, and then two holidays - St. Tatiana's Day and the day of the university foundation were combined into one - Tatiana's day. The people eventually renamed the day of the establishment of Moscow State University as Student's Day, and the celebrations spread throughout Russia. The Great Martyr Tatiana was given the status of the patroness of students, although initially Saint Tatiana had absolutely nothing to do with the teachings.

Fact 3

Why did the empress sign the above-mentioned decree on Tatiana's Day? Coincidence? Not at all. According to one version, Ivan Shuvalov, the founder of the country's main university, timed the day of filing a petition to sign the decree to coincide with his mother's Angel Day. In such an original way, he wanted to give her a gift.

Fact 4

The symbol of Moscow State University is the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana, built on its territory. It appeared in 1791, and since then every year services have been held in it in memory of the saint. Festive liturgies were not held except from 1812 to 1817, when, together with the university buildings, the church burned down, and during the Soviet era. But in 1944, Patriarch Alexy II held the first service during a long break, thereby renewing the tradition of the university.

Fact 5

The founding day of Moscow State University was widely celebrated by students and teachers. The festivities acquired the greatest scope in the 60s. 19th century. First, the official part awaited everyone: congratulations and the presentation of awards to the best students, a prayer service in the church at the university. Then the university fraternity went to the bars and taverns of Moscow, and an extravaganza began! The capital did not know more noisy fun. In bars, the owners removed expensive furniture so that drunken students would not spoil it. Students walked with professors, poor people, ordinary residents: on that day, the borders were erased, everything was allowed.

Fact 6

Tatyana's Day is the only date of the year when the tsarist police did not touch the brawlers. On the contrary, on this day, law enforcement officers were so loyal to drunk students that they offered their help. If the students were so drunk that they could not get up from the ground, the gendarmes wrote the addresses on their backs with chalk and took them home.

Fact 7

Tatiana's Day is a peasant holiday. Saint Tatiana's Day - Tatiana Kreschenskaya or Babiy Kut. Women in families baked round cakes, symbolizing the sun, and treated them to all household members. People, tired of the prolonged Epiphany frosts, in this way invited spring into the house. "To Tatiana" young girls went to the river, where they shook and washed the rugs, which were then hung out in the yard. By the cleanliness of the rugs, people judged the hostess - whether she would make a good wife.

And on January 25, unmarried girls made bouquets of feathers, hay and rags, and hid them in the house of a potential groom. If they managed to do this, then marriage is not far off.

Fact 8

The student holiday has been celebrated for more than two centuries.

During this time, signs and traditions associated with this day appeared:

• On Tatyana's day, you cannot prepare for the exam - you will fail it.
• It is considered a good omen to celebrate the holiday with alcohol - the exam will be passed the next day.
• Well, the favorite tradition of all students is Shara's call: students open windows, shout “Shara, come”, and if they hear an answer (usually from the same students or passers-by), then you don't have to worry: you will get the easiest ticket on the exam.

Fact 9

Currently, Tatyana's Day is an official holiday of all universities in the country. This event is most solemnly held at the main university in Russia - Moscow State University. Festive events take more than one day. Necessarily held: a service in the Tatiana Church, awarding of the laureates of the Lomonosov and Shuvalov prizes, youth forums, a concert and, of course, the traditional ceremony of pouring mead by the rector.

Fact 10

Mead is a primordially Russian low-alcohol drink based on honey, associated with Student's Day. Why exactly mead? Tatiana's Day was celebrated with this drink in the 19th century, during the time of noisy festivities on the occasion of the holiday. Not all students could buy wine and champagne. Mead is another matter entirely. She was the cheapest, and as a result, available alcohol at that time.

Fact 11

Few people know that the idea of ​​pouring mead on Student's Day belonged to the rector of Moscow State University. In 1992, there was a controversy among teachers at the university over the celebration of Student's Day. Many professors supported the idea of ​​collective swimming in pools, as students did in America. But Viktor Sadovnichy recalled how he once witnessed an interesting scene: after the solemn inauguration, the rector of one of the German universities, at the request of a student, poured and served him a mug of beer. This episode was so remembered by the rector of Moscow State University that it became the prototype of a new university tradition - treating students with mead.

Fact 12

The student's day is marked on the calendar. In 2005, President V.V. Putin signed a decree on the official status of the holiday, and in October 2007, Student's Day also became a memorable date along with such holidays as National Unity Day and Russia Day.

Fact 13

Russian Student's Day does not coincide with the International Day, which is celebrated on November 17. Unlike the merry holiday of Tatiana's Day, it is not customary to celebrate International Student Day loudly. On this date, young people are remembered who paid with their lives for patriotism. In 1939, in Prague, students marched on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia, not being afraid of the Nazi invaders. Many of them were subsequently shot or sent to concentration camps. All over the world on this day, November 17, remember the innocent victims of fascism.

Tatiana's Day is an unusual holiday. It so happened that it organically merged both Orthodox and secular traditions. This day will allow everyone to plunge into the atmosphere of fun, carelessness and youth. On a cold winter day, this is exactly what you need.