Students' Day (Tatian Day)

Probably, the favorite of Empress Elizaveta Shuvalov did not think that with his light hand, January 25 will be the birthday of a higher school. It was in 1755, when he approved the project of Moscow University, developed by Lomonosov, obtained the approval of the document by the Senate and submitted it for signature to Elizaveta Petrovna.

He tried to time the opening of an educational institution (the first in tsarist Russia) to the name day of his mother Tatiana Petrovna. “I give you a university,” he told her on January 12 (the 25th in the new style), when the Empress signed a decree on its creation – “for the training of learned sons of the state.” Then this statement became winged.

And in 1835, Tsar Nicholas I ordered to unite the name day of the university and Tatiana Day in one holiday. This is how this holiday moves through times and countries. It is difficult to say how it came to us, but students consider the celebration of this day their sacred duty and reinforce it with various concerts, exhibitions, jokes and jokes. All this is usually delayed until the morning and classes with teachers are left with nothing, but there are no big scandals - everyone understands the importance of the event. In addition, on Tatiana Day, police officers help students get home and generally treat any student representative very favorably.