Great video, thanks for the history and your research on it. Always great learning history of so many amazing cultures. Take care and enjoy your weekend.
Thank you for your great video about this Slavic tradition. Until now, I only knew about the celebrations for the beginning of spring (Maslenitsa). It's wonderful that I was able to learn something new from you. You managed again to capture the atmosphere and the many different impressions of such a holiday. I like these kinds of videos very much. Very well done. 👍
Busy days and the European Women's Football Championship made me delay the comment and greetings to my favorite Russian profiles. Mrs. Anna's reports are never trivial but interesting and colorful. Let us see the past traditions of the great Russia, even if from the point of view of tourism and folklore it always enriches. Even in Tuscany there are many events and historical re-enactments. Even my son and I when he was 17-18 years old did part of the Historical Group of Montecarlo di Lucca. We also did the duel with swords. The group was very based on soldiers, we also had a mini-catapult and the most beautiful thing was "the Assault on the Cerruglio Fortress". but in the re-enactment there were also notables, the millstone, the blacksmith, the spinning and the harvesting of spontaneous herbs. Of course there was no shortage of friars and priests. In the re-enactment that Anna presents to us there is a pre-Christian spirituality and a respect for the world of nature, woods and trees. (Here those aspects were impeded by the suffocating Roman Catholic religiosity.) Even the houses here from the fourteenth century onwards were only in stone and brick... that's why we have so many archaeological finds here. If life in Russian villages was like that, there was much more color and joy than here where war, hunger and disease reigned. We were only ahead in culture: Dante Alighieri and Michelangelo could only be born in Tuscany.
I think it's celebrated in a similar way only as far west as Poland, where the festival is called Wianki. Midsummer celebrations exist in many cultures, but are celebrated differently. For example in Sweden you can check for "Sweden's Midsummer Festival" online. Such a festival makes sense in areas with a cold winter and not in western and southern Europe. There the end of winter and the start of spring is is felt to be more important than midsummer.
Unfortunately, in Serbia people have almost forgot about their old history, religion, but some of the old traditions were merged with Orthodox Christianity. Some of us are trying to learn as much as we can, but resources are very few. So a video like this one is a treasure for me. We call those flowers Ивањско цвеће, and holiday Купало. But nobody celebrates it like you do. We are brothers and sisters! BTW, it is a part of the pre-christian religion of ALL Slavic people. And in my opinion, it wasn't a pagan religion, because people believed in single supreme being that created everything in the universe, including "lesser" gods. Showing kvas was a bad thing, because I just love it! So far the best source on the subject that I've read was "Rg veda and Slavic mythology" from Yuri Mirolubov. We should learn much more about our ancient history, and this video was just a huge step in right direction! Спасибо большое!
I'm really glad that you liked it! When I'm editing videos I'm not contented with myself and work that I'm doing. It seems to me not good enough and I know that it is not as good as it should be and I need to learn. So comments like yours make me feel good and I really appreciate that you like such videos.
And making such videos broadens my mind 🙂 I didn't know that this holiday is celebrated in so many countries and there are so many rituals! There's a lot of reading to be done.
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Is there anything similar to this holiday in your culture?
So many beautiful things to see and wonderful narration.
Молодцы, что съездили! Очень интересно )) столько венков в воде было!😁
Great video, thanks for the history and your research on it. Always great learning history of so many amazing cultures. Take care and enjoy your weekend.
Thank you very much! Have a great weekend :-)
Loved this video! Looks like a really fun event. Different activities for all ages.
Cool holiday. Interesting video.
Thank you for your great video about this Slavic tradition. Until now, I only knew about the celebrations for the beginning of spring (Maslenitsa). It's wonderful that I was able to learn something new from you. You managed again to capture the atmosphere and the many different impressions of such a holiday. I like these kinds of videos very much. Very well done. 👍
My first trip to Russia took me to the city but my next trips will be to the heartland to have experiences like this.
Very intersting movie
So cool! I wish I was there. 😭
Busy days and the European Women's Football Championship made me delay the comment and greetings to my favorite Russian profiles. Mrs. Anna's reports are never trivial but interesting and colorful. Let us see the past traditions of the great Russia, even if from the point of view of tourism and folklore it always enriches. Even in Tuscany there are many events and historical re-enactments. Even my son and I when he was 17-18 years old did part of the Historical Group of Montecarlo di Lucca. We also did the duel with swords. The group was very based on soldiers, we also had a mini-catapult and the most beautiful thing was "the Assault on the Cerruglio Fortress". but in the re-enactment there were also notables, the millstone, the blacksmith, the spinning and the harvesting of spontaneous herbs. Of course there was no shortage of friars and priests. In the re-enactment that Anna presents to us there is a pre-Christian spirituality and a respect for the world of nature, woods and trees. (Here those aspects were impeded by the suffocating Roman Catholic religiosity.) Even the houses here from the fourteenth century onwards were only in stone and brick... that's why we have so many archaeological finds here. If life in Russian villages was like that, there was much more color and joy than here where war, hunger and disease reigned. We were only ahead in culture: Dante Alighieri and Michelangelo could only be born in Tuscany.
Great content, interesting, good visuals and stories.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad that you liked it.
I think it's celebrated in a similar way only as far west as Poland, where the festival is called Wianki. Midsummer celebrations exist in many cultures, but are celebrated differently. For example in Sweden you can check for "Sweden's Midsummer Festival" online. Such a festival makes sense in areas with a cold winter and not in western and southern Europe. There the end of winter and the start of spring is is felt to be more important than midsummer.
That's interesting! In Russia the celebration of the end of winter and start of spring (Maslenitsa) is also celebrated more widely than Midsummer.
Unfortunately, in Serbia people have almost forgot about their old history, religion, but some of the old traditions were merged with Orthodox Christianity. Some of us are trying to learn as much as we can, but resources are very few. So a video like this one is a treasure for me. We call those flowers Ивањско цвеће, and holiday Купало. But nobody celebrates it like you do. We are brothers and sisters!
BTW, it is a part of the pre-christian religion of ALL Slavic people. And in my opinion, it wasn't a pagan religion, because people believed in single supreme being that created everything in the universe, including "lesser" gods.
Showing kvas was a bad thing, because I just love it!
So far the best source on the subject that I've read was "Rg veda and Slavic mythology" from Yuri Mirolubov.
We should learn much more about our ancient history, and this video was just a huge step in right direction!
Спасибо большое!
I'm really glad that you liked it! When I'm editing videos I'm not contented with myself and work that I'm doing. It seems to me not good enough and I know that it is not as good as it should be and I need to learn. So comments like yours make me feel good and I really appreciate that you like such videos.
And making such videos broadens my mind 🙂 I didn't know that this holiday is celebrated in so many countries and there are so many rituals! There's a lot of reading to be done.