00:00hello everyone it's russian girl christmas is coming and i really want to share with you how we
00:06do celebrate christmas and new year here in russia my husband is back from his business trip so
00:13our family is finally back together so we're gonna set up our christmas tree right now in
00:20the apartment so you will have a chance to see how russians decorate home decorate christmas
00:26trees i will also share with you our traditions and some like interesting facts like for example
00:34that we do not celebrate christmas that much but we do celebrate new year and that our christmas is
00:41actually not on from 24 to 25 of december we have a different day for christmas so if you're interested
00:49please keep watching and i'll be really happy for any reactions you may leave while watching this video
00:55we're starting unpacking our christmas here i already have some christmas installation
01:02this is the christmas tree christmas flower and we also have here the christmas ball
01:09ball how you call this christmas toy the with a horse a symbol of this year so we're gonna put this
01:16on our christmas tree and also the roses my husband gave it to him because he came back from a business
01:21trip and this is our kind of tradition when he comes back he comes back with flowers
01:31this is the box in which we have our christmas tree we just took it from the
01:35outside look at the candles there
01:37i really love candles at home they really give me a lot of christmas mood
01:44i already started to put outside the bars of christmas trees and i remember that we don't have
02:00the christmas songs that's really important to create a really nice christmas mood i think i don't
02:06know because it's really magical moments that you share with your family so here we go
02:11in russia we prepare the christmas tree for new year not for christmas because in russia we are christians
02:28but we are not catholics we are orthodox christians that is why we celebrate christmas on 9th of december
02:38and we do not really celebrate much christmas the new year this is the biggest celebration of the year so
02:47that's why all the fireworks you can see on on the new year day on the new year night all the
02:54restaurants are booked in the new year and for christmas it's more like you know just a family dinner
03:01that we just have with our family and that's basically it without presents the presents are for new year
03:08you're good! you're good! you're good! you're good! you're good!
03:28also in russia we prefer to buy actually the real christmas trees from the forest
03:34but because we have a small baby with him it's gonna be impossible with a real christmas tree because
03:39it leaves a lot of like these sharp things and all the apartment will be like in a mess
03:47from from from this because baby will take it all the time and you know it's not a very good option
03:52that's why we're having the artificial one but anyways it doesn't matter which christmas tree you have
03:59a new apartment it will give you the mood the feeling of holidays and also in our country house in the
04:06country house of my parents where we will go already after the holidays because this year we celebrate
04:12new year separately and they will go to the forest and they will buy not buy they will take they will cut
04:22the christmas tree and they will bring it to home so in the countryside we will have a good one a true one
04:29and also we have the near to each metro station we have the christmas trees bazaar like christmas
04:40trees market where you can buy a real christmas tree because actually in the forest
04:45next to saint pittsburgh close to saint pittsburgh it's forbidden to cut the trees of course so but
04:51we have this one and it's gonna be a really nice one you will see
05:15that
05:24A little filibring now.
05:43let's see for how much time we will have decorated christmas tree
05:55and you already started to take decorations off from the christmas tree
06:01let me tell you a little bit about the traditions that we have
06:07for specifically for the new year's night so first of all like 5 10 minutes before 12 before new year
06:18we start on the tv because our president starts to give a speech he tells something like oh this year
06:26was a good year but it was a little difficult because of these days and that and i wish that
06:33in the new year we're gonna be stronger and everything is gonna be cool he gives usually
06:39really nice speeches really like motivational really honest ones uh he is um like highlighting
06:47the results and then he tells something like uh i wish merry christmas no i wish happy new year to
06:56everyone uh be healthy be wealthy something like that and i mean in the way i say it's like funny
07:04but no actually it's kind of a pretty serious speech and but it's a really good one and uh when he
07:11finished uh starts to be the time like one minute before new year and uh on tv they start to show
07:23the most important um clock in the moscow in kremlin and when it starts to be 10 seconds before new year
07:37uh the clocks by itself they start to make sound like 10 seconds before the next hour yes
07:43and these 10 seconds we say 10 9 8 7 blah blah blah blah and when it's new year we are making cheers
07:56and in this time we're making a wish and how we make a wish we put we write very very fast on a small
08:05piece of paper the wish i think it's kind of international tradition and then we um put a fire
08:12on it and when the fire is almost when the blame almost eaten the paper we throw the paper in the glass
08:22of champagne and that means that this wish will be completed during the next year and we make cheers
08:31so that's how it happens and after that we make fireworks we dance um we eat a cake so the main
08:41dishes are before new year we start celebrating like 9 10 p.m and the cake is after after 12 so that is
08:51the way i mean it's also family friends celebration depends how you want to celebrate we can celebrate
08:59in the country houses in the country houses in the apartments in the restaurants everywhere it doesn't
09:04matter the main the most important is for you to be comfortable to be with people that you want to be
09:10and just enjoy the time
09:15the main one with a horse
09:26successfully finished to decorate our christmas tree this year i decided to make it in like red and
09:35white colors this is the main balloon that i just put and i tried to leave the the lower level without
09:43toys for giovanni to not to take them because he already tried and that's how it is that's how we're
09:51preparing for the new year i'm really happy i really have the christmas mood and also my husband was also
09:58making the video right now he makes for his spanish channel and he was saying something like that
10:07in aquilor for example they put a lot of different decorations a lot of different ornaments so
10:11basically you cannot see christmas tree in our culture it's a little different we like to see the tree
10:18and we decorate the tree we don't just put a lot of decorations we prefer to see a lot of green
10:24parts for it to look like natural you know but beautiful and we have also here these lights these
10:32are one of the products that we sell in azon so this is really you know really perfect when you have
10:38different christmas lights and you can use them we sell them and we use them by ourselves so it's
10:46it's really really nice you don't need to buy a lot of stuff and think about which lights you will use
10:52we're gonna have a party in christmas tree looks really nice actually we just realized that today
10:58is christmas for catholics today is 24th of december so we decided to make a small dinner we invited the
11:06sister of giovanni also lives here and yeah we're gonna just spend some time together not much time because
11:14he has to go and take his tourists he has a group of tourists traveling now with him here in russia
11:21joining his tour so i hope you really got from this video this vibe of kind of russian traditional christmas
11:30i'm sorry preparations and i wish you a merry christmas i wish you a happy new year uh text me if you have any
11:38questions i will be happy for any feedback that you may leave below so let's stay in touch
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