Holidays on this day
- Bear Day
- Belly Festival
- Hot Cocoa Day
- Horse Day
- Violin Day
- Vanilla Sky Day
Significant events in history
1476 Typographer William Caxton became the first English printer.
1577 Francis Drake set out on his first serious expedition.
1642 For the first time Europeans reached New Zealand.
1742 Elizaveta Petrovna's decree ordered that Jews be immediately expelled abroad and that they should not be allowed into Russia in the future.
1971 The premiere of the comedy film “Gentlemen of Fortune” (6+) took place in Moscow.
Persons
On December 13, 1553, the King of France (1589-1610), founder of the French royal Bourbon dynasty, Henry IV Bourbon, was born.
On December 13, 1720, Italian playwright and writer Carlo Gozzi was born.
On December 13, 1797, the German poet, publicist, and critic Heinrich Heine was born.
On December 13, 1816, Werner von Siemens, a German engineer, scientist, inventor, and founder of Siemens, was born.
On December 13, 1873, Russian poet, prose writer, playwright, translator, and literary critic Valery Bryusov was born.
On December 13, 1903, the Soviet writer, co-author of Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov, was born.
On December 13, 1908, Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR Rostislav Plyatt was born.
On December 13, 1930, Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Nikolai Rybnikov was born.
Folk calendar
Andrey Zimny
On this day, the memory of Apostle Andrew the First-Called is celebrated – one of the twelve closest disciples of Jesus Christ and brother of the Apostle Peter.
In Rus', on Andrei, as before, peasants listened to water – but not only in wells, but also in rivers and lakes. If the water was calm, it foreshadowed a warm winter without snowstorms. If you heard humming and moaning, you had to wait for storms, severe frosts and a generally unlucky year.
They also paid attention to other signs. For example, it was believed that if it snows on St. Andrew’s Day, it will remain for another 110 days.
Witch doctors and healers considered the day of St. Andrew the First-Called their holiday.
On this day, the girls prayed to the apostle for good suitors and told fortunes about their betrothed. The magical rituals of St. Andrew's Day were a kind of rehearsal before the big Christmas fortune-telling. The day before, the girl, who wanted to find out her fate, kept a fast – but so that none of her relatives would notice. Also, during the evening meal, young peasant women broke off a piece from their slice of bread, and before going to bed they put it under the pillow and said the already famous: “Betrothed, mummer, come to me for dinner.”
On this day, you could pick a branch of a fruit tree – usually an apple tree – and put it in water. If the branch turned green at Christmas, it meant that the girl would get married that year.
Name day on this day
Andrey, Ivan.
Source: Calend.ru.
