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In ancient times, the Slavs greeted the New Year on the first spring day - March 1, according to a new style, this is March 14.
Celebrations took place widely, because the beginning of the new year was a symbol of the beginning of a new time. From that day it was possible to start a new cycle of field work, to engage in other agricultural work.
This is the most ancient of the authentic and known celebrations of the New Year.
At the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea in 325, it was decided to postpone the beginning of the New Year from March 1 to September 1.
In December 1699, the Decree of Peter I established that the celebration of the New Year in Russia is postponed from September 1 to January 1.