“Due to the transition after the revolution to the Gregorian calendar, the New Year precedes Christmas, when Orthodox Christians are fasting. For church people, there is some inconvenience in this. Since the Russian Church did not switch to the Gregorian calendar, we got a strange conflict. And as a result, another holiday appeared – the Old New Year, and on this day believers no longer have restrictions related to fasting,” he explained. The historian recalled that January 1 became a New Year’s holiday by decree of Peter I. Before the revolution, Russia lived according to the Julian calendar: then Christmas was celebrated on December 25, at the end of Lent. “After the revolution, the New Year absorbed the attributes of celebrating Christmas — a traditional Christmas tree, gifts to each other, a festive feast, in the conditions of Soviet reality, the holiday took root because there was no politicization in