Ethnic traditions in modern culture: jani day of berezovka estonians

The article emphasizes the decisive importance in the calendar rites Balts celebration of the summer solstice -, determines its basic elements - fires, songs, dances, a solar symbolism. It is noted that the festival serves as a marker of ethnic and cultural Estonians throughout the XX century. It focuses on the traditions of Jani Day celebration in Siberia at the post-reform Estonian immigrants and their descendants. Estonian village Berezovka in Tomsk Region has elected as the research base. The brief history information about the village is summarized in the context of the history of the population of Estonians Tomsk region. The Jani Day celebration history for more than a century is reconstructed based on the author's field data collected in Berezovka. There are marked stability festive ethnic culture in a Estonians farmsteads in the neighborhood Berezovka at the beginning of the XX century. It reveals the continuity of the existence of a festive tradition, although in a minimal amount, in terms of repression of the 1930s and the post-war 1940s. The festival celebration develops in 1950-ies, its structure has complicated - visit the cemetery, commemoration of the dead, decoration the houses by birches, dwelling fires in each lane, the Estonian songs and dances, mutual treats, humorous scenes, collecting dew and bathed her, pouring water the next day. The local authorities and employees of the club come in on festival celebration in 1960-ies, Jani Day was held orderly, but with preservation of traditional elements. Only for a short time in the late 1980s, a festival tradition fades in Berezovka, but already in the 1990s it has reborn. The holiday takes on the character of mass entertainment events held by the workers of culture and visited by locals and visitors. Jani Day celebration becomes the hallmark of the Estonian Berezovka. In the festival script innovations are introduced on a regular basis, but it is based on the Estonian traditions brought by post-reform migrants from Estonia in the Siberia.

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