Village gatherings in an old village.

Getting together is a party in an old Novgorod Russian village. In Russia it is the custom of the peasant people to gather in the evenings in the hut for work and entertainment. The gatherings began at the end of summer-autumn fieldwork, culminating in the Christmas period. In central Russia, youth parties were played from the day of Kuzma-Demyan or Pokrov to carnival, Meetings were arranged on weekdays and Sundays.The time of gatherings was divided into working, when the girls sewed, spinned, knitted, quietly talked, sang long songs, and idle - communication with the boys. Their arrival at gatherings was ritually decorated: they entered with a gourd, bowed on the threshold, took off their hats and greeted the girls present, after which each chose a pair for himself.