Holidays July 27
Finland celebrates Sony Day
This day has been celebrated since the Middle Ages. According to legend, seven Christian youths who lived in the 3rd century and were in military service refused to make a sacrifice to the pagan gods. For which the angry emperor Decius Troyan, sentenced them to death. Execution chose sophisticated: walled up in a cave alive. But God did not allow the youths to die, but plunged them into a dream. They woke up after 200 years, not knowing how much time had passed. This tradition spread throughout the world, it reached the borders of Finland, where in 1652 they decided to celebrate this day in memory of the seven saints.
At first, the holiday was religious in nature, and only after many years, in the middle of the 20th century, it turned into a fun carnival, which is held in Finland annually on July 27. The first Sony Day began to celebrate the inhabitants of the resort town of Naantal. The laziest dormouse of Naanthal was chosen, who was awakened in an unusual and peculiar way: he was simply dumped into the sea. The holiday turned out to be cheerful, harmless and instructive. Hinting that you can’t sleep for a long time, the world is changing during this time, and you can miss your happy chance.
A holiday takes place according to a certain scenario. On the eve of choosing "lazy sleepyhead", usually someone from the local celebrities. His name is kept secret, even from the "victim" itself. Early in the morning they come to his house, cover with a blanket, and lead to the harbor to throw into the water. Only when he comes out of the water, everyone will find out who became the main sleepyhead of the year this time. Then the fun moves to the central streets of the city and continues until late in the evening.
July 27 on the folk calendar
Aquila Day. Watch
On this day, the peasants appeased the spirit of the fields - Field. On the extreme strip of cornfield left for him a pot of porridge and a bunch of ears of rye. If Polevoy liked the treats, then the next year was rich in grain crops.
Summer was on the decline, the weather was becoming windy and changeable. Torrential rains with gusts of wind and thunderstorms were frequent. It was believed that various evil spirits were hidden in wind vortices, and if lightning got into such a vortex, the evil spirits instantly turned into an innocent child, pets or birds. Therefore, peasant peasants went out on patrols during bad weather to prevent the reincarnated evil spirits.
Historical events of July 27
July 27, 1841 Mikhail Lermontov was killed in a duel
Mikhail Lermontov was a great poet, prose writer, publicist. But he had a complex and difficult character. His temper, arrogance and straightforwardness, often brought the poet to quarrels and duels. For frequent duel, he was repeatedly exiled to the Caucasus. Lermontov possessed absolute composure, in battles he was distinguished by courage, enviable courage, even recklessness. In the war he repeatedly challenged death, but he was not destined to die in battle. Once in Pyatigorsk, returning from vacation, he met a long-time acquaintance Nikolai Martynov, with whom he studied at the cadet school. An imperceptibly peaceful conversation turned into a quarrel, which resulted in a duel. Appointed her on July 27th. The first to shoot Lermontov. He did not think of killing a friend, so he shot to the side. Martynov answered the poet with a straight shot in the chest. Lermontov's death came instantly. In such an absurd way the life of a young genius poet was cut short. He was only 27 years old.
July 27, 1952 was officially opened and the Volga-Don Canal began to function
The first attempt to connect the two rivers in the narrowest place was first made in the 16th century by Selim II, the Turkish Sultan. During one of his campaigns in Russia, he sent an army of more than twenty thousand people to dig a canal. After a month of hard work, the Turks abandoned this venture, saying that they could not cope here in a hundred years. The next attempt in the 17th century was made by Tsar Peter I. But because of the outbreak of war with Sweden, work was curtailed. A total of more than once resorted to the idea of creating a channel between the Volga and the Don; about three dozen projects were drawn up. The latter was developed according to the GOELRO plan in the mid-thirties of the 20th century. Implement prevented him from the war. The construction of the canal was a strategically important business, so the design began in 1943, immediately after the Battle of Stalingrad. In February 1948, as soon as the scheme of the Volga-Don Canal was approved, they started digging. The main workforce was political prisoners and repressed citizens. The construction of the canal was completed on May 31, 1952. The trial movement of vessels began on June 1, and the official opening of the complex took place on July 27.
July 27, 1976 Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, while at a tournament in Amsterdam, refused to return to the USSR, asking the Dutch authorities for political asylum
Viktor Korchnoi is a talented chess player, a multiple winner of the championships of the USSR, Europe, interzonal tournaments, who did not become the world champion. Since 1994 he is a Swiss citizen. Participates in competitions for this country, is the oldest playing grandmaster in the world. At the age of eighty, he won the tournament, which was held among veterans, and was dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Mikhail Botvinnik.
Born on July 27
Ludwig Nobel (1831 - 1888), Swedish, Russian inventor and engineer
Ludwig Nobel was born into the family of the Swedish manufacturer Emanuel Nobel, the owner of an engineering plant. At first he worked with his father, then went into entrepreneurial activity. He was a brilliant engineer and a talented inventor. He developed and produced steam hammers, hydraulic presses, machine tools, guns, shells, and was a recognized expert in torpedoes and underwater mines. For the first time in Russia, he began to produce diesel engines. Here, in Russia, together with his brothers, he created his own oil company. It was one of the best in Europe for the extraction, processing and distillation of petroleum products. Ludwig Nobel was a well-known philanthropist in Russia. He financed a school of workers, railway craftsmen, allocated funds for research conducted by the Academy of Sciences and the Russian Technical Society. He is the elder brother of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize.
Maris Liepa (1936 - 1989), Soviet, Latvian ballet dancer
Maris Liepa is an outstanding artist, whose name is inscribed not only in the history of Russian, but also world ballet. His stardom time fell on 1965 - 1970, when the new choreographer Yuri Grigorovich came to Bolshoi. In 1968, he staged the ballet Spartak on the stage of the theater. The role of Crassus, the Roman commander, was directed by Grigorovich specifically for Maris Liepa. This part was complex, requiring exceptional physical and choreographic training. For this role, Liepa was awarded the Lenin Prize. In addition to performing on stage, Maris, along with the Bolshoi Theater troupe, toured triumphantly around the world. France applauded him, the USA, England, Greece, Bulgaria. The Paris Dance Academy in 1971 recognized him as the best dancer of the year. In the early seventies, a misunderstanding arose between the ballet soloist Liepa and the choreographer Grigorovich, and then completely deteriorated. This negatively affected the career of the artist. He increasingly began to get secondary, and sometimes episodic roles. Maris Liepa died in 1989 from a heart attack, his grave is in the Vagankovsky cemetery.
Name day July 27
Name Day Celebrate: Ivan, Konstantin, Onisim, Nikolai, Fedor, Stepan, Peter, Nicodemus, Heraclius
