Holidays on this day
- Maslenitsa day 7
- Forgiveness Sunday
- International Day of Support for Victims of Crime
- World Encephalitis Day
- World Thinking Day
- Day of attracting good mood
- Walking the Dog Day
- Wildlife Day
Significant events in history
1632 Galileo Galilei presented the Duke of Tuscany with a book dedicated to him.
1714 The St. Petersburg Botanical Garden was established.
1878 The Fourth Symphony of P.I. was performed for the first time. Tchaikovsky (0+).
1921 The State Planning Committee of the USSR was created in Soviet Russia.
1968 The first Soviet Antarctic station, Bellingshausen, was opened.
Persons
On February 22, 1732, the 1st President of the United States (1789-1797), American statesman and military leader George Washington was born.
On February 22, 1788, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was born.
On February 22, 1800, Russian noblewoman and memoirist Anna Kern was born.
On February 22, 1810, Polish composer and pianist Fryderyk Chopin was born.
On February 22, 1821, Russian writer and satirist Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov was born.
On February 22, 1850, Russian landscape painter Fyodor Vasiliev was born.
On February 22, 1857, German physicist and one of the founders of electrodynamics, Heinrich Hertz, was born.
On February 22, 1897, Soviet military leader, Marshal and Hero of the Soviet Union Leonid Govorov was born.
Folk calendar
Pankratiya Day
On this day, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Pankratius of Pechersk, a recluse who lived in the 13th century. According to legend, he retired to caves and led an ascetic lifestyle there, spending time in prayer.
In Rus', Pankratia has always been used to weave bast shoes. Winter was coming to an end, there were few grain reserves left, so they said: “Not every Pankrat is rich in bread, but our Pankrat is rich in bast shoes.” And since Saint Nicephorus was also honored on this day, the peasants kindly made fun of the two righteous people sharing one holiday for two: “Pankrat’s bast shoes are good, and even those are Nicephorians.” Nikiforians usually called high bast shoes that were worn at home on bare feet.
Also on this day, it was supposed to check the entire household, see if everything was in order, and whether the property needed repairs. It was not for nothing that they said: “If Pankratiy has the matter in his hands, the owner has bread in his mouth.”
We also watched the weather, noticing that winter was beginning to weaken. The approach of spring is dedicated to the saying: “The night is dark on Pankratia – winter is running away.” It was believed that the colder the week that begins from this day, the warmer it will be in March.
Name day on this day
Vasily, Gennady, Ivan, Innokenty, Nikifor, Pankraty, Peter, Tikhon.
Source: Calend.ru.
