Russian holidays

New Year’s Day
A family holiday
To stay up until midnight
To see the Old Year off
To see the New Year in
To put up the New Year Tree
To do the illumination
To decorate the New Year Tree with toys
To lay the holiday table
To wait for the clock to strike midnight
To congratulate each other
To say “A Happy New Year”
To wish a strong health and happiness

Christmas
To be a Christian holiday
To decorate fir-trees with tinsels, baubles, fairy lights and to light candles
To have parties
To wish a merry Christmas
To give gifts to relatives and friends

Shrovetide
To have deep roots and to be connected with the end of winter
To be ‘’A Farawell-to-Winter Festival”
To remember hardly about them (many people)
To do a lot during this festival
To have a lot of fun
To say “goodbye” to winter
To welcome spring
To have carnivals and to ride Russian troikas
To cook and eat a lot of pancakes
To climb a pole for a gift