In 1791, the temple of Moscow University was also consecrated in the name of the holy martyr Tatiana. Since then, Saint Tatiana has been considered the patroness of students and teachers.
In 1918. At first there was a club 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.
Before the revolution, on Tatyana’s day, teachers and students went to church in the morning, then to the assembly hall to listen to the rector’s speech. In the evening, a noisy celebration began, in which not only students, but the whole of Moscow took part (initially this holiday was celebrated only in Moscow). The celebration of the “professional” day of students had traditions and ritual - ceremonial acts were organized with the distribution of awards and speeches. There was another tradition: on this day anyone was allowed to enter the university, inspect classrooms and laboratories, and visit libraries and museums.
Tatyana's Day was also celebrated during the Soviet era, because this day coincided with the end of the session.
IN modern Russia Traditionally, students organize mass celebrations on this day.
In 2016, the All-Russian event “Tatyana’s Ice” was held for all students in the country. Holiday programs were organized at ice rinks in the capital and regions of Russia.
On this day, the Russian Orthodox Church remembers the holy martyr Tatiana, who is considered the patroness of all Russian students. On this day, all women bearing the name Tatiana celebrate their name day (the ancient name “Tatiana” translated from Greek means “organizer”).
As church tradition says, Saint Tatiana lived in Rome at the turn of the 2nd-3rd centuries during the brutal persecution of Christians. Her father, a noble Roman, secretly professed Christianity and raised his daughter in the Christian spirit. Tatiana did not marry and devoted all her strength to serving God. At that time, all power in Rome was concentrated in the hands of the persecutor of Christians, Ulpian. 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 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 warded off blows from the martyr, then milk flowed from her wounds instead of blood and a fragrance filled the air. After terrible torture, 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 executed.
In recent years, celebrations of St. Tatiana's Day in Russia have been 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 remembrance of the patroness of higher education in Russia - the martyr Tatiana, became the temple in honor of this saint at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov on Mokhovaya Street.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
The history of the emergence and development of the student holiday is closely connected with Moscow State University - it was on January 25, 1755 that the Russian Empress Elizabeth the First signed a decree on the founding of the first national university - Moscow. In modern history, Tatyana’s Day is called “Russian Students’ Day” and is a national holiday based on a presidential decree issued on January 25, 2005. In 2007, President V.V. Putin signed a federal law, according to which the Day of Russian Students was added to the honorary list of memorable dates in Russia.
Why is the holiday called Tatyana's Day?
As already mentioned, the basis for the student holiday was the signing of the imperial decree of 1755 on the founding of the University. Both the project of the University and the idea of its creation belong to Mikhail Lomonosov and Count Ivan Shuvalov, since they the best way understood how important the emergence of a scientific organization of this kind was for Russia and the development of science in it. The official opening of the University was carried out only in April 1755, on the 26th - on the day dedicated to the anniversary of the coronation of Elizabeth the First. Therefore, for the next 35 years, this day was considered the founding day of Moscow University.
But the next Russian Emperor Nicholas the First, in 1791, issued a decree ordering that not the day of the official opening of the university be celebrated, but the day the decree on its creation was issued, that is, January 25. Thus, by order of the emperor, the first official student holiday appeared, coinciding with the day of memory of St. Tatiana. In 1791, the University was built Orthodox church, which was consecrated in the name of the holy martyr Tatiana (Tatiana). It is from this time that Saint Tatiana is considered the patroness and protector of students and teachers.
It is interesting that after the revolution of 1917, due to the denial and rejection of any religion, the temple was closed by the Bolsheviks. In order to ensure that the temple premises were not empty, a club was organized in it - a place for people to gather and communicate in their free time from the construction of communism. In the period from 1958 to 1994, within the walls of the former temple there was a student theater of Moscow State University, from which many famous actors emerged, including Mark Zakharov, Roman Viktyuk, Iya Savvina, Valdis Pelsh, Alexey Kortnev, etc. And only in January In 1995, historical justice triumphed and the building was returned to the Orthodox Church.
History of the celebration
In the first years after the holiday date was approved on January 25, no particularly magnificent festivities were celebrated. Usually, the holiday was celebrated with modest feasts. A mandatory part of the festive program was a prayer service in the university church. But around the 60s of the 19th century, the celebration of Tatiana’s Day was conventionally divided into an official part and an unofficial part. To the program official events usually included the following: holding an open day at the University; ceremonial speech by the rector of the University; visiting the university church; festive lunch in the university canteen for professors. After the official celebrations ended, the fun began! Students, united in small groups, went to wander the Moscow streets until late at night, drank alcoholic drinks, bawled songs. Favorite places for mass gatherings of celebrating students were Nikitsky and Tverskoy boulevards and Moscow squares.
Sometimes students were able to celebrate their holiday, what is called “in grand style” - from time to time, some restaurants in the city kindly provided students with their halls for the celebration. There is a legend that on the eve of the holiday, expensive furniture was taken out of restaurants, and the rich interior decoration was replaced by cheap and unsightly ones - simple tables and benches were placed, and cheap pottery was taken from restaurant storerooms. Restaurant carpets were replaced with a thick layer of sawdust. As a rule, restaurant kitchens were closed on January 25th. The students had only buffets with cold snacks, vodka, beer and cheap wine at their disposal.
A.P. Chekhov, once describing the celebration of Tatyana’s Day, said that this year they drank everything they could find. They could even drink the Moscow River, but, fortunately, it was frozen. There was even a tradition when restaurant doormen wrote their delivery addresses in chalk on the backs of drunken students, in case they couldn’t get home themselves. And the city police did their best to ensure the speedy delivery of drunken students to their homes.
It is believed that the celebration of Tatyana's Day was so loved by students and their teachers because on this day class and social differences between people disappeared - the rich celebrated together with the poor, teachers had fun with their students. Youth, freedom, student life, ease and fun of life united not only teachers - professors and students, but also former graduates of the university: doctors, officials, journalists, industrialists, lawyers, businessmen and everyone else who had at least some connection with students and his daily life.
During the formation of Soviet power, Tatyana’s Day was renamed “Proletarian Students’ Day,” and magnificent festivities in honor of the holiday were first suspended and then completely prohibited due to inappropriateness. For a long time there were no official student holidays in the USSR. It was only in 1992 that the tradition of celebrating the birthday of Moscow State University was revived and various celebrations were held in honor of the historical student holiday. And gradually, within a fairly short time, students from all higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation and the countries of the former CIS joined the celebration of Tatiana’s Day on January 25.
Usually, by this day the session ends in almost all universities, so most students can celebrate their legal holiday with peace of mind. As a rule, on this day ceremonial awards are scheduled for students for achievements in science, sports and culture, concerts, performances, KVNs, flash mobs, balls and other cultural events are held.
I must say that Tatyana's day - National holiday, having historical heritage and cultural significance. However, there is also an international student holiday, celebrated around the world on November 17th. It also arose during historical events and is closely connected with the course of the Second World War.
Signs and superstitious traditions on Tatiana's Day
Of course, over the long existence of Russian students, student rituals, superstitions and traditions could not help but appear. Thus, the following rituals are associated with Tatyana’s day, predicting a happy course of student affairs:
1. On January 25, you need to climb to the highest place in the city and, looking at the sun, make a wish - it will come true 100%, tested by time and thousands of other students!
2. Summon Freebies or Balls. To observe the ritual on January 25, you need to go out onto the balcony, porch or lean out of the window and, waving your grade book, call Freebie “Freebie, come!” at the top of your voice. It is believed that if one of the strangers shouts back, “On the way!” - this is a very good sign for a student.
3. Drawing in a grade book on Tatiana's Day is also a long-standing tradition. On the last page of the notebook, it is customary to draw a village house and smoke coming from the chimney of this house. The longer the smoke, the easier it will be for the student to study all year, until the next Tatyana’s day.
Tatyana's Day (Student's Day) 2020 is celebrated on January 25 (January 12, old style). IN church calendar this is the date of honoring the memory of the holy martyr Tatiana of Rome, who in the 18th century became the patroness of students.
Student's Day 2020. On January 25, students of secondary vocational and higher educational institutions celebrate their professional holiday - Student's Day. This date falls during the end of the fall semester, the end of the session and the beginning of winter holidays. On this day, students are awarded additional scholarships and certificates of honor.
Tatyana's Day 2020. On January 25, parishioners of the Orthodox Church pray to Saint Tatiana of Rome. On this day it is customary to congratulate women who bear the name Tatyana.
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history of the holiday
The holiday received the name “Tatiana’s Day” in honor of the holy martyr Tatiana of Rome, who lived in Rome in the 3rd century. She was born into a rich, noble Christian family. After reaching adulthood, Tatiana took a vow of chastity and became a deaconess. She dedicated her life to serving the church, helping sick and needy people. Saint Tatiana was persecuted by the pagans. Emperor Alexander Severus sentenced her and her father to death, which was carried out on January 12, 226. Tatiana was elevated to the rank of holy martyrs.
In the Russian Empire, Tatyana's Day was originally celebrated as the day of the founding of Moscow University (MSU). On January 12 (25), 1755, Empress Elizabeth issued a decree establishing Moscow State University. In 1791, the house church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana was founded in the university building. January 25 became Student's Day, and Saint Tatiana became the patroness of high school students.
On January 25, 2005, the President of Russia signed the Decree “On the Day of Russian Students.” The document officially approved the professional holiday of Russian students.
Student traditions
Students celebrate Tatiana's Day on a special scale. They visit churches, light a candle to the patron saint Tatiana and ask for help with exams and tests. Universities host festive concerts on this day, at which diligent students are awarded certificates of honor. University students gather in groups, have parties, go to nightclubs and bars.
A well-known student tradition on Tatiana's Day is calling balloons. On the night of January 25, they go out onto the balcony or look out the window and shout three times: “Shara, come!” in front of an open grade book. Students believe that such a ritual helps them pass all exams successfully.
To attract good luck during the session, university students perform another ritual with their grade book. At noon on January 25, they draw a small house on the last page. It must have a door and a window. The main elements are the chimney pipe and the smoke emanating from it. The house should be drawn with one continuous, twisted line. It is believed that if you can draw it continuously, then passing the session will be easy and successful.
Folk traditions
On this holiday, there is a tradition to congratulate all Tatiana on Angel's Day.
Believers visit churches where solemn services are held. Girls who seek to arrange their personal lives pray to the patron saint Tatiana.
On January 25, girls try to lure guys. To do this, they lay a small path on the threshold of the house. It is believed that if on this day a beloved young man wipes his feet on her, he will be a frequent guest.
Tatyana's Day is a good time for making wishes. To do this, you need to go out into a sunny meadow and think about cherished dreams. Sincere wishes made on this day come true.
What not to do on Tatiana's Day
On Tatiana's Day, it is forbidden to quarrel with family members and loved ones. It is not right to refuse help to the needy and the sick. You cannot be in an uncleaned house.
Signs and beliefs
- If it snows on January 25, then summer will be rainy.
- If the weather is clear and frosty on Tatyana’s day, then you should expect a good harvest.
- Girls born on January 25 become good housewives and wives.
- If there is an exam on the day following Student Day, then you cannot read notes the day before.
- If on this day the housewife bakes bread with a smooth crust, without cracks, then the coming year will be successful and calm.
January 25th is Tatyana's Day (Student's Day). On this holiday, everyone congratulates Tatyana on Angel’s Day, visits churches, performs rituals to attract suitors, and makes wishes. Also on January 25, students of secondary vocational and higher educational institutions receive congratulations. On their professional holiday, students perform rituals to attract good luck in exams.
Students always have something to love about their student life. Despite the fact that will undoubtedly lead us to long and deep discussions on this matter, we note that there is no need for this. And if students didn’t even have a single “legal” holiday, it wouldn’t bother them at all. Rather, on the contrary, it would give them much more enthusiasm in search of an “extra” reason for joy, because youth has a potential that is far from fully explored, and endows its owners with the most unpredictable and extraordinary ideas and solutions.
In its arsenal, the student part of our progressive society has at least two completely legal and certainly official reasons for the holiday: International Students' Day, which is celebrated on November 17th and Tatiana's Day - January 25th, which can be said to be our home or national Students' Day . The origins of the latter are fundamentally different from world holiday, it is more traditional for our students and dates back to the mid-eighteenth century.
According to the project website, Students' Day was previously dedicated to the day of the establishment of Moscow University, which, according to the old style of the Julian calendar, took place on January 12, 1755 and was initiated by the Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna at the request of the Russian statesman and philanthropist Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov. The signing of the highest Decree took place exactly on the day of his mother’s name day; in parallel, this day was also the day of the early Christian holy great martyr Tatiana of Rome, who lived in the 3rd century AD. This is an ancient Greek name, which we better know as “Tatyana”, which means “organizer”. A little later, in one of the extensions of the old university building, a house church was created in her honor, and the saint herself was declared a kind of patroness of Russian students.
Students' Day began to be celebrated first as the birthday of the University itself and was a fun and noisy event, and later it spread and became a holiday for all students of the Russian Empire.
There is an opinion that every day is a holiday for students. This opinion exists in those sections of our society for whom their student life is long behind them and is sometimes caused by the excessive burden of the harsh reality surrounding them with endless current worries, from which student life already seems easy and carefree. But any student can say that this is not so, because decisions, activities and the importance of every moment of our lives determine not only our present, but also our future, and students are in more critical conditions that require greater coordination and effort, careful searches and savvy.
On this, we are not afraid to say, professional student holiday, we join in the congratulations addressed to all our students! We wish them success in their studies, good practice, effort and time! All in your hands. Happy Students' Day!
Tatiana's Day is one of the most joyful and anticipated holidays for Russian students. This day is celebrated unanimously by both current students and those who graduated from their native university 15-20 years ago. When is Tatiana's Day 2016 celebrated in Russia, on what date? Student Day is celebrated annually on January 25 and is not an approved day off. Students of most Russian universities take the winter session in January, but on Tatyana’s Day they put lectures aside and have fun - the sign says that Student’s Day should be spent in a noisy company, then all exams and tests will be successfully passed.
The history of the holiday dates back to 1775, when Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, having satisfied the request of Count Shuvalov, signed a decree on the establishment of Moscow University, in one of the buildings of which a small church was opened in honor of the Great Martyr Tatiana. Since then, Saint Tatiana has been considered the patroness of Moscow University and all Russian students.
How and when is Tatiana's Day celebrated?
Celebrations dedicated to Student's Day consist of two parts - an official ceremony with the obligatory presence of professors and representatives of the university administration, students and graduates who come to the educational institution from all over Russia. The best students are presented with various awards and prizes, after which the unofficial part begins - concerts, fun festivities on the city streets, visits to churches.
Features of celebrating Student's Day are different for each college, university, and city. For example, in Volgograd on this day an exhibition of works that were completed only by Tatyana starts. At the Belgorod Technological University, the Tatiana Ball opens with a dance with candles, and in Vladivostok they keep a book of student records. Student life is a wonderful time, a time of discoveries and accomplishments, hopes and loves, which all former students remember with tenderness and nostalgia. By the way, on Tatiana’s Day there is a tradition: you need to go to the highest place in the area and make a wish while looking at the sun - it will certainly come true!
