Holidays
- Pharmacy Equipment Day
- Maze Day
- Tryphon and Pelageya
- Cathedral of Vyatka Saints
- Virtual Desktop Cleanup Day
- Cement Day
- Back to the Future Day
- Celebration of the Mind
- Colorful Umbrella Day
- Check Your Medicines Day
- Chatter Day
- Reptile Day
- International Nacho Day
- Pumpkin Cheesecake Day
Significant dates
1520 Magellan discovered the Strait, which was later named the Strait of Magellan.
1805 The Battle of Trafalgar took place.
1997 The Alexander Solzhenitsyn Literary Prize was established.
Persons
On October 21, 1772, the English romantic poet, critic and philosopher Samuel Coleridge was born.
On October 21, 1833, the Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor of dynamite, and founder of the Alfred Nobel Prize was born.
On October 21, 1896, Soviet writer and playwright Evgeny Schwartz was born.
On October 21, 1918, Soviet and Russian scientist, “patriarch of domestic programming” Mikhail Shura-Bura was born.
Folk calendar
Tryphon and Pelageya
On this day the memory of two saints is celebrated – Tryphon of Vyatka and Pelagia of Antioch. Tryphon was born in the 16th century in the village of Malye Nemnyushki in the Arkhangelsk province. On this day, Pelagia of Antioch, who lived in the 3rd century, is also venerated.
In Rus' at this time the approach of winter was becoming more and more noticeable. “It’s getting colder from Tryphon-Pelageya,” people said. To avoid being taken by surprise by the frosts, it was necessary to prepare warm clothes in advance. On this day, housewives took out sheepskin coats, fur coats, hats, and mittens and looked to see if they needed repairing. “Trifon is mending his fur coat, Pelageya is sewing mittens,” they said.
On Pelageya (Pelagia) and Tryphon, the owners lowered barrels of cucumbers and cabbage pickled for the winter to the bottom of the rivers. This was a successful invention of the Russian people: under the ice, the water temperature never dropped below zero degrees, so the food did not spoil, but did not freeze either. If necessary, they chopped wormwood in the ice, took the barrels out into the light of day, and delicious pickles appeared on the peasant table in the middle of winter.
Also on this day, as usual, they began to prepare new fields – they cut down and burned the forest.
Name day on this day
Vasily, Victor, Vladimir, Dmitry, Elizabeth, Ivan, Maria, Nadezhda, Nikolai, Pavel, Pakhom, Pelageya, Peter, Seraphim, Taisiya, Tatyana, Trifon
Source: Calend.ru.
