THE FIRST & THE MOST

01.03.2024     I started preparing material for an exciting tour of Moscow "The First & The Most". The car tour and excursions will focus on objects that are the only and unique, the most advanced and the best, or the most backward and the worst. The tour will include the best elements from my other current tour programs.     

BELOVED & DEAR

08.03.2024       International Women's Day is a holiday for which everyone prepares in advance. March 8 - some are in anticipation and expectation, others are in worries and problems. I am one of those who loves to give gifts, beautiful compliments and good mood. I love and respect women. On this holiday, I provide all excursions and tours for women for free, as always. Flowers, surprises, presents and gifts are also ready. 

MASLENITSA 

17.03.2024       During car excursions and tours, I will tell you about eight folk rituals for celebrating Maslenitsa in Rus'. Following traditions, I will share with you the most effective and, above all, magical ritual. Wealth comes down to those who work hard and do everything smartly. Without the main ritual rite, other rituals may simply not work.

And also - in ancient times they said that on holidays you shouldn’t be a recluse and you should go for a walk!

I conduct exciting excursions and tours for adults and fabulous tours for children. 

The magic sleigh is ready for Maslenitsa meetings at various venues in Moscow, Vladimir and Suzdal. 

CATHOLIC EASTER 

31.03.2024       Catholic Easter. 

FOOL'S DAY 

01.04.2024       International April Fool's Day / Old French New Year. The history of this European holiday is unknown for certain, but the most common is the “French” version. According to it, in medieval France, the New Year was celebrated in different regions on different days - in March or September. The “Spring” New Year was celebrated from March 25 to April 1, observing the custom of giving gifts. In 1564, King Charles IX set the national date for the New Year to be January 1st. But the tradition of exchanging gifts on April 1 was not forgotten. The French began to present each other with jokes, practical jokes, funny and absurd things.

Actually, April Fool's Day began to be celebrated in Russia during the reign of Peter I. In his youth, the tsar spent a lot of time in the German Settlement, a district of Moscow where Europeans lived. It was there that Pyotr Alekseevich learned about the tradition of playing each other on April 1st. 

COSMONAUTICS DAY

12.04.2024       Cosmonautics Day in Russia is celebrated every year. It was first celebrated in 1962, exactly one year after the first manned space flight. It was carried out by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, whose name became known throughout the world thanks to this. The first Vostok spacecraft launched on April 12, 1961 at 06:07 Baikonur time. At launch, Yuri commanded “Let’s go!” The flight lasted 108 minutes.

The holiday Cosmonautics Day was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on April 9, 1962 in honor of the world's first human flight into space on April 12, 1961 by Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin. In November 1968, at the congress of the International Air Sports Federation, it was decided to celebrate April 12 as World Aviation and Space Day, and on April 8, 2011, at a meeting of the UN General Assembly, a resolution proposed by Russia was adopted, according to which April 12 was declared International Day of Human Flight into the space.

“...humanity will not remain forever on Earth, but, in pursuit of light and space, will first timidly penetrate beyond the atmosphere, and then conquer the entire circumsolar space.”

K. E. Tsiolkovsky. 

OPERATION BERLIN 

16.04.2024       04/16/2024 On this day 79 years ago, the battle for Berlin began. The final part of the Berlin offensive operation in 1945. The operation to capture Berlin lasted from April 16 to May 2.

EARTH DAY

22.04.2024       The official name of the holiday is International Mother Earth Day, but in Russia and many other countries it is known as Earth Day. Earth Day is a series of springtime environmental events that has taken place annually in the United States since the 1970s. The holiday became an international holiday only in 2009 at the initiative of the UN. The appearance of the holiday is due to the American Gaylord Nelson - he is called the father of Earth Day. Democrat Nelson was appointed senator of Wisconsin in 1963 and began to pay great attention to environmental issues.

Birthday of V.I. Lenin. On April 10 (22), 1870, a political and statesman, the creator of the Soviet socialist state, one of the leaders of the international communist movement, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (real name Ulyanov), was born in Simbirsk.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is the leader, the main key figure of the October Revolution in the Russian Empire. Birthday of V.I. Lenin was a significant and special date in the USSR. Five main traditions on this day:

Laying flowers at monuments

Coincided with important events in the USSR

Admission to the Pioneers

Lenin's subbotniks

Lenin readings.

PALM SUNDAY

28.04.2024       Palm Sunday is the popular name for the event in Christian history known as the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem. In Orthodoxy, it is considered one of the 12 most important holidays after Easter (the twelfth holidays).

The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem is celebrated exactly one week before the Holy Resurrection of Christ, on the sixth Sunday of Lent. This is a moving holiday - that is, its date changes every year and depends on the day of Easter.

It's spring outside, there's exactly a week left until Easter, which means that today is Bright Palm Sunday!

Please accept my purest and kindest congratulations on this holiday.

Let the bad things remain behind, and let the sun, joy and happiness lie ahead!

FORTY DAYS OF MEMORY AND MOURNING

30.04.2024       03/22/24. There was a terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. The terrorists shot people in the lobby and concert hall and then set the building on fire. As a result of the terrorist attack, 145 people were killed and more than 500 were injured.

A few minutes before the start of the concert, terrorists broke into the building and began killing people in the foyer and in the hall. Panicked spectators tried to run out of the building, but many of them were hit by bullets. Chaos and hell reigned in the concert hall. People screamed, cried, tried to run away, many were injured, some died immediately.

Today, April 30, a memorial service for the victims of the terrorist attack was held at the memorial next to the Crocus City Hall building.

Everlasting memory. Kingdom of heaven to innocent victims...

SPRING & LABOR DAY

01.05.2024       Spring & Labor Day. 

ORTHODOX EASTER DAY

05.05.2024       Easter Day. 

ACT OF CAPITULATION OF GERMANY

07.05.2024       On this day, a document was signed that marked the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 and the end of World War II in Europe. The act of surrender was signed twice. Initially, the Act was signed by representatives of the Wehrmacht High Command (Colonel General Alfred Yodel and the Head of the OKW, General Wilhelm Keitel), the High Command of the Western Allies (the United Kingdom, the countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations, the United States of America, as well as France and some other countries in the anti-Hitler coalition - Chief of the General Staff of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, US Army Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith) and the Soviet Union (Representative of the Supreme High Command Headquarters under the Allied command, Major General Ivan Susloparov). May 7 at 02:41 Central European Time in Reims (France). The surrender of the German armed forces came into force on May 8 at 23:01 Central European Time (May 9 at 01:01 Moscow time). 

VICTORY DAY & EUROPE DAY

09.05.2024       Victory Day & Europe Day.  Victory Day in the Russian World.  V-E Day. Europe Day is an annual celebration of unity in the countries of the European Union and the Council of Europe. There are two separate Europe Days, celebrated on 5 and 9 May, created by the Council of Europe and the European Union respectively. In the EU, the holiday is also known as Schumann Declaration Day.

THE LAST BATTLE

12.05.2024       Czech Republic. The last battle in Europe in World War II 1939 - 1945.