Old New Year

Celebrate on the night of 13 to 14 JanuaryOld New Year in Serbia and Montenegro, as well as in Russia, is celebrated on the night of January 13-14.

It is on this night that he comes on the old Julian calendar, which is followed by the Serbian Orthodox Church along with the Georgian and Jerusalem.
The old New Year is celebrated in Switzerland. Residents of the canton of Appenzel in the XVI century did not accept the reform of Pope Gregory and still celebrate the holiday on the night of 13 to 14 January.

Fans of assigning international customs exclusively to themselves, the Serbs call this holiday “Serbian New Year” or “Little Christmas”.

Little Christmas coincides with St. Basil’s Day. In many ways, this predetermines the nature of the holiday. Sometimes the Serbs on this day bring into the house "badnyak" - one of the two logs that they prepared on Christmas Eve for Christmas and Little Christmas.

Prepared for the Old New Year, basilica: round cakes from corn dough with kaimak - cream, flaked like cheese. Sometimes another dish from the corn dough is cooked - steaming.