Winter Traditions

There are a lot of different holidays all over the year; every of them has its own attractiveness. But for me winter holidays always seemed the most wonderful and mysterious.
In my childhood in our country we never celebrated Christmas on the 25th of December as we do now. These traditions came with independence. For the Russians Christmas comes on the 7th of January (it is connected with different calendar styles used in different religions). In Soviet times it was not accepted to celebrate any religious holydays, but my grandparents were deeply believing persons, so every Christmas we met at their house to sit in a family circle, to eat some Christmas food, and to listen to wonderful stories about celebrating it in the past. …