let's ask dmitry skvarchevsky, candidate of historical sciences. hello dmitry. hello!day ask about carol traditions, a little bit. let's dive into history, what kind of holiday is this and how has it survived to this day? carols are, perhaps, one of the most interesting, most meaningful holidays in our tradition. in general, this is not even one holiday, these are several holidays that are combined into a single cycle, it used to be celebrated in conjunction with the day of winter, usually stretched over 12 days of evenings, so they were called holy evenings, or crooked evenings, and as you correctly noted, he combines himself like this old mythological traditions, and... both some elements and others, that is, they do not conflict, on the contrary, they organically complement each other, their main holidays are three in this cycle, the so-called three carols or three kutia, each of them also has its own name, well, we will probably be more interested in the generous evening, depending on the calendar style, it is celebrated either from december 31 to january 1, that i