Holidays
- International Day of Light
- International Day of peaceful coexistence
- Day of biographers
- Barbeck day
- The holiday is praised
- Ghost dance day
- Day of love for trees
Significant dates
1686. In Moscow, the “Eternal World” was signed between Russia and the Commonwealth.
1881. In Germany, a passenger movement has been opened on the world's first tram.
1924. The first issue of the Murzilka magazine (0+) was published in the USSR.
1929. The first ceremony of the Oscars (18+) took place in the United States.
1985. The beginning of the anti -alcohol campaign in the USSR.
Persons of the day
On May 16, 1847, a Russian scientist, archaeologist, philologist and art critic Ivan Tsvetaev, was born.
On May 16, 1887, the Russian poet of the Silver Age was born, translator Igor Severyanin.
On May 16, 1910, the Soviet poetess and prose writer Olga Bergholz was born.
On May 16, 1938, the Soviet and Russian circus artist, a trainer of predatory animals, director Mstislav Zapashny was born.
People's calendar
Mavra Seedlings, Mavra thrush, Mavra green cabbage soup
Young spouses Timothy and Moor, whose memory is celebrated by the Orthodox Church on this day.
In the Russian folk calendar, Mavra acquired several nicknames. The most famous of them is a seedling – speaks for itself. On this day, housewives landed seedlings of cabbage on the beds and sowed gardens with vegetable seeds. Sometimes fresh plantings were sprinkled with holy water to protect plants from caterpillars and aphids.
They adhered to some other beliefs. For example, it was not customary to plant cabbage on Thursday, even if it was a day of the Mavra of the Seatar; It was believed that worries would sharpen her. When transplanting plants, women did not eat bread so that the hens did not hide young shoots.
The day of the Morara was called green cabbage soup because in mid -May they began to cook cabbage soup not from sauerkraut (its reserves ended by this time), but from fresh greenery – sorrel, quinoa, nettles.
Mavra was also called thrush. It was believed that on this day the cows, having eaten fresh and juicy grass, bring the most delicious and thick milk. “And the hostess is easy, since milk on the table,” they remembered such a proverb to Moor.
Watched the signs. Both the big dew and a clear day foreshadowed a good harvest of cucumbers. But the lack of dew promised the rain in the morning.
Name day on this day
Vikenty, Nikolai, Pavel, Peter, Timofei, Ulyana, Theodosius.
Source: Calend.ru.
