Nowadays, toasting at the festive table has become a tradition and a good habit. Therefore, in this article we will continue to talk about Russian toasts as a tradition of drinking alcohol at any celebration.
It is an interesting fact that the tradition to make long toasts came to Russia from the Caucasus. Today, at various celebrations you can hear both short and long toasts.
People say as many toasts on the New Year as they do on birthdays. For example:
On the 8th of March, when people sit at a festive table, they raise their glasses for women and they say the following toasts:
In addition to the celebration of Women’s day, Russia also celebrates the Men’s day or the Day of the Defender of the Fatherland on February 23, so we will give examples of toasts said on this day:
Saying a toast is not a special skill. You just make up your own original toast, or use the examples from this article, and you will definitely make a good impression!
As it seems to us, Daugavpils is the best place to learn Russian now, because our city is situated in the EU and NATO, but at the same time 90% of the city’s population speak Russian at home.
Etude on Dvinsk by F.Fedorov
The Baltic region is one of the most catastrophe prone regions of the 2nd millennium, especially its second part; it is the centre of attraction of ‘geopolitical’ interests of the European world. Probably the most tragic fate has befallen to the eastern part of the present Latvia and its multi-titled town of Dinaburg – Dvinsk – Daugavpils. During its 730 years long history, the town went through five rather autonomous periods of development, five different lives (German, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Soviet), and at the beginning of the 1990s it entered into the 6th period.
The history of Dinaburg – Dvinsk – Daugavpils is the history of five attempts by the town to begin its life anew; and this is determined not only by the fact that the town was four times burned down and had to start life from scratch, but first and foremost because each of these periods was characterized by a total change of ethnos and the socio-cultural field.
The present article deals with the cultural space of the town in one of the most efficient periods of its development – from the 1860s till World War I.