On the kitchen a hotchpotch and a soup made from fermented rye flour are cooking with mushrooms. A borscht is boiling. Carp prepared for frying. To do the time ears to the borscht. Stuffing consists of mushrooms and the cabbage.

Already bedecked Christmas tree.

Wafer on the table prepared. He is laid on the hay to the souvenir of the fact that the Jesus was born in the Bethlehem stable.

For the moment the entire family is about to a congregational prayer. After her we are exchanging Christmas greetings, we are giving ourselves our best wishes. It is a moment of great poignancy.

Shared Christmas Eve supper.

borsch with ravioli

small square noodles with the cabbage

Not perhaps a carp to be missing compote of

dried fruits

sweet roll called the "puppet"

After the supper time for presents who are them facing under the Christmas tree. A cherub most probably brought them;).

The Christmas Eve is expiring on conversations, for singing Christmas carols. At night the family is setting off for the church to mass who is called "midnight Mass".

Two consecutive days of holidays are above all a time of family gatherings, but also accepting "carol singers". These are groups of young people who are visiting houses with the shed. They are singing Christmas carols and they are giving their best wishes. Sometimes they are describing biblical scenes about the Christmas.

Small financial donations are being given to carol singers, they are being offered sweets, but the time - when the group is also adult- with alcoholic beverages.