Holidays
- International Day of Light
- International Day of Peaceful Coexistence
- Biographers Day
- BBQ day
- Holiday suck-up
- Haunted Dance Day
- Love Trees Day
Significant dates
1686 The “Eternal Peace” between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was signed in Moscow.
1881 The world's first tram has opened to passenger traffic in Germany.
1924 The first issue of the magazine “Murzilka” (0+) was published in the USSR.
1929 The first Oscars ceremony (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, Russian scientist-historian, archaeologist, philologist and art critic Ivan Tsvetaev was born.
On May 16, 1887, the Russian poet of the Silver Age and translator Igor Severyanin was born.
On May 16, 1910, Soviet poet and prose writer Olga Berggolts was born.
On May 16, 1938, Soviet and Russian circus performer, trainer of predatory animals, director Mstislav Zapashny was born.
Folk calendar
Mavra Rassadnitsa, Mavra Thrush, Mavra Green cabbage soup
Young couple Timofey and Mavra, 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, the Nursery, speaks for itself. On this day, housewives planted cabbage seedlings in the beds and sowed vegetable gardens with vegetable seeds. Sometimes fresh plantings were sprinkled with holy water to protect the plants from caterpillars and aphids.
They also adhered to some other beliefs. For example, it was not customary to plant cabbage on Thursday, even if it fell on the day of Mavra Rasadnitsa; it was believed that worms would sharpen it. When transplanting plants, women did not eat bread so that the chickens would not eat the young shoots.
The Moors' day was called green cabbage soup because in mid-May they began to cook cabbage soup not from sauerkraut (its supplies were running out by this time), but from fresh greens – sorrel, quinoa, nettle.
Mavra was also called the Thrushwoman. It was believed that on this day, cows, having eaten fresh and juicy grass, bring the most delicious and thick milk. “And it’s easy for the housewife if there’s milk on the table,” this was the saying they remembered in Mavru.
We watched for signs. Both heavy dew and a clear day foreshadowed a good harvest of cucumbers. But the lack of dew in the morning promised rain in the afternoon.
Name day on this day
Vincent, Nikolai, Pavel, Peter, Timofey, Ulyana, Feodosius.
Source: Calend.ru.
