For Russians, the sounds of the chimes, like champagne and Olivier salad, have long been an integral attribute of the New Year.
Many people believe that they should clink glasses of champagne after the Kremlin chimes strike 12 times. This misconception dates back to the Soviet era: when time signals were broadcast on the radio, the last radio signal corresponded to the beginning of a new hour. But this does not apply to the chiming clock. There is another opinion: the New Year supposedly begins with the first blow. This is not true either.
Now I’ll tell you when to “clink glasses”...
The exact Kremlin time is kept behind iron bars. Access to the holy of holies, the Spasskaya Tower, is only accompanied. Regime object. No elevators. Almost 10 floors up on foot along ancient spiral staircases.
Each hand is 3 meters, the dial itself is 6 meters. The size is not so noticeable from the paving stones, but the main clock of the country occupies several floors. Wheels and gears larger than a man, a huge musical drum, a 32-kilogram pendulum - in total, the entire structure weighs more than 25 tons. In all other respects, the chimes are the most ordinary mechanical watches.
Here, at the astronomical time service of the Sternberg Institute, they know everything about them, observe the stars, study the rotation of the Earth and continuously receive signals from satellites so that the chimes constantly receive reports about the most accurate Moscow time. Here they know the answer to the main question.
Evgeny Fedoseev, head of the Time Service of the Astronomical Institute. Sternberg: “The New Year begins at the first sound of the chimes. Ding-ding-ding. It’s already the New Year and we need to shout, congratulate and celebrate, but all these blows and signs come later.”
The wheels started turning. Began. This is how the arrival of the new year to replace the old one looks like in the heart of the main clock of the country.
And if we approach the problem even more pedantically, here it is:
The moment of the new year is a conditional and relative concept. How to negotiate. If you live in a city, then at different ends of it (west - east) the moment 24-00 LOCAL TIME (!) will be at different times. In mid-latitudes, with a difference in distance of about 15 km, the difference will already be a minute.
So:
The first strike of twelve sounds ten seconds after the start of a new day. And their change occurs when the chimes begin to chime. More precisely, of course, it’s the other way around: the beginning of the chime coincides with the moment the day changes. At zero hours zero minutes zero seconds chime starts. Ten seconds later, the first strike of the bell sounds, striking the whole hour.
The first clocks in Moscow appeared in 1404. At that time, Moscow was already a big city, and the Kremlin was the residence of the great princes. The Kremlin clock was one of the first in Europe and was considered a miracle of its time. This clock was located in the courtyard of Grand Duke Vasily Dimitrievich on Cathedral Square, not far from the Annunciation Cathedral. The chronicler described their structure in the following way: “This watchmaker will be called the clock; at every hour he strikes the bell with a hammer, measuring and counting the hours of the night and day; not a man striking, but human-like, self-resonant and self-moving, strangely created somehow by human cunning, pre-imagined and cunning.”
About the clockmaker it is written in the chronicle: “The prince himself conceived the clockmaker, and the clock was installed by a Serb monk named Lazar.” For installation of the clock they paid 150 rubles, a large amount for that time.
It is not known exactly when the Kremlin tower clock appeared. There is an assumption that they were placed on the Spasskaya Tower shortly after its construction (1491). However, documentary evidence of this dates back to the 16th century. Who made the clock and what it was like has not yet been established exactly. In archival materials only from 1585 there is a mention of the watchmakers of the Frolovsky (Spassky), Trinity and Tainitsky gates. Documents have been preserved that show that watchmakers received 4 rubles and 2 hryvnias per year for their work and 4 arshins of cloth for clothes.
At the beginning of the 17th century, this watch was sold in Yaroslavl, and from the surviving bill of sale we know that it weighed 960 kilograms. But the documents do not mention what kind of call they received.
A second clock appeared on the Spasskaya Tower, which was built in 1625. They were assembled under the leadership of the English master Christopher Golovey, who was invited to install the chimes by Tsar Mikhail Romanov. Thirty bells, cast by master Kirill Samoilov, chimed every hour. This mechanism was repaired several times after numerous Kremlin fires, but fire July 19, 1701 the chimes did not survive.
New chimes, by order of Peter the Great, were delivered from Amsterdam to Moscow on 30 carts. They struck the hours and quarters and rang 33 bells. It is known for certain that Muscovites heard it for the first time on December 9, 1706 at 9 am.
Alas, this watch suffered the same sad fate as the previous mechanisms. They were repaired several times, but after the fire of 1737 The chimes finally rose.
In 1763, a “large chime clock” made in England was removed from the premises under the Chamber of Facets. It took master Ivan Polyansky three years to install them on the Spasskaya Tower. The mechanism served faithfully for several decades, during which its parts wore out and the clock stopped working. Their repairs were carried out at the Butenop brothers' factories for two years. There, a musical mechanism was re-created that performed the march of the Preobrazhensky Regiment from the times of Peter the Great and the melody of D.S. Bortnyansky “How Glorious is Our Lord in Zion.” So that the belfry could play these melodies, it was supplemented with 24 bells. 16 of them were removed from the Trinity Tower and 8 from Borovitskaya. After this, the number of bells in the belfry reached 58, and 13 of them were cast for the Golovei chimes.
In 1860, the chimes surprised Muscovites with a new melody. It was the German mechanic Fatz, invited to service the clock, who retuned the copper musical shaft to the simple melody “Ah, my dear Augustine.” However, Nicholas the First considered this song unworthy of the main clock of the state. By the way, earlier Nicholas did not allow the shaft to be tuned to “God Save the Tsar,” believing that the chimes should not play the national anthem.
In the revolutionary year of 1917, a shell hit the dial of the chimes, and the watch was repaired in 1919 by master N.V. Berne. Now the melodies of the “Internationale” and the funeral march “You have fallen a victim” were played on the musical shaft. These two melodies alternated (at noon and midnight) and sounded until 1932, when it was decided to leave only “Internationale”. In 1938, the performance of this melody stopped. Now the chimes only chimed quarters and whole hours.
In 1974, the chimes were stopped for a hundred days. During this time, the watch mechanism was completely disassembled, all worn parts were replaced. A device for automatic lubrication of parts was designed. But the musical mechanism was never repaired.
On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Plenum of the Central Committee decided that the chimes should play the national anthem, written by Alexandrov. However, experts who examined the musical mechanism came to the conclusion that the available bells it is impossible to play this melody.
Everyone probably knows the principle of operation of an ordinary music box. It was invented several centuries ago, but was especially widespread in the 18th and 19th centuries, when even pocket watches, cigarette cases and snuff boxes played various melodies. The musical mechanism had a so-called program cylinder, seated with small short pins. When the cylinder rotated, they set thin metal plates into sound.
The Kremlin chimes also have a program cylinder, but its diameter is about 2 meters and its width is more than 2 meters. The mechanism is driven by a heavy weight weighing more than 200 kilograms.
After the clock strikes, the chime mechanism stopper is disabled. A huge cylinder bristling with a thousand steel pins rotates slowly. Busy with pins
30 tracks for one piece and 30 for another. Each track is dedicated to one bell. The sizes of the chime bells are different, therefore they produce different sounds: from a thick bass to a ringing treble. The weight of bells depends on their size - from tens to hundreds of kilograms. The largest bell weighs 500 kilograms.
When the program cylinder rotates, the pins touch a special device like a pedal. The pedal is connected by a steel cable to a striking mechanism (it is located above, on the 10th floor, where the bells hang). A cable pulls a specially shaped hammer from the edge of the bell, the pin breaks off the pedal, and the hammer hits the edge of the bell, producing sound from it.
While over the course of many decades the Kremlin chimes underwent all sorts of alterations, the clock mechanism always worked properly and almost never stopped.
And the music of the Moscow chimes did not sound until 1996. Then the inauguration of B.N. took place. Yeltsin, to which the music center was again repaired. This time he was “taught” to perform “Patriotic Song” and “Glory” by Glinka. To do this, we recorded the sound of each bell and analyzed both melodies using a computer. Smart electronics suggested how many bells and what tone were missing. The three missing bells were cast in Holland, delivered to Moscow and installed on the belfry.
And today you can hear Glinka’s melodies performed by the Moscow chimes. Of course, if you find yourself on Red Square at noon or midnight.
Congratulations to all readers of my blog on the upcoming 2017, I wish you all the best in your personal life and work. Take care of yourself and your loved ones!
just for lulz...
For Russians, these sounds, like champagne and Olivier salad, have long been an integral attribute of the New Year. Only the main question is, when exactly it occurs, there is still no complete clarity - with the chime of the bell, with the first or last strike of the chimes.
The exact Kremlin time is kept behind iron bars. Access to the holy of holies, the Spasskaya Tower, is only accompanied. Regime object. No elevators. Almost 10 floors up on foot along ancient spiral staircases.
Each hand is 3 meters, the dial itself is 6. The size is not so noticeable from the paving stones, but the main clock of the country occupies several floors. Wheels and gears larger than a man, a huge musical drum, a 32-kilogram pendulum - in total, the entire structure weighs more than 25 tons. In all other respects, the chimes are the most ordinary mechanical watches.
Here, at the astronomical time service of the Sternberg Institute, they know everything about them, observe the stars, study the rotation of the Earth and continuously receive signals from satellites so that the chimes constantly receive reports about the most accurate Moscow time. Here they know the answer to the main question.
Evgeny Fedoseev, head of the Time Service of the Astronomical Institute. Sternberg: “The New Year begins at the first sound of the chimes. Ding-ding-ding. It’s already the New Year and we need to shout, congratulate and celebrate, but all these blows and signs come later.”
The wheels started turning. Began. This is how the arrival of the new year to replace the old one looks like in the heart of the main clock of the country.
And if we approach the problem even more pedantically, here it is:
The moment of the new year is a conditional and relative concept. How to negotiate. If you live in a city, then at different ends of it (west - east) the moment 24-00 LOCAL TIME (!) will be at different times. In mid-latitudes, with a difference in distance of about 15 km, the difference will already be a minute.
So:
The first strike of twelve sounds ten seconds after the start of a new day. And their change occurs when the chimes begin to chime. More precisely, of course, it’s the other way around: the beginning of the chime coincides with the moment the day changes. At zero hours zero minutes zero seconds chime starts. Ten seconds later, the first strike of the bell sounds, striking the whole hour.
The first clocks in Moscow appeared in 1404. At that time, Moscow was already a big city, and the Kremlin was the residence of the great princes. The Kremlin clock was one of the first in Europe and was considered a miracle of its time. This clock was located in the courtyard of Grand Duke Vasily Dimitrievich on Cathedral Square, not far from the Annunciation Cathedral. The chronicler described their structure in the following way: “This watchmaker will be called the clock; at every hour he strikes the bell with a hammer, measuring and counting the hours of the night and day; not a man striking, but human-like, self-resonant and self-moving, strangely created somehow by human cunning, pre-imagined and cunning.”
About the clockmaker it is written in the chronicle: “The prince himself conceived the clockmaker, and the clock was installed by a Serb monk named Lazar.” For installation of the clock they paid 150 rubles, a large amount for that time.
It is not known exactly when the Kremlin tower clock appeared. There is an assumption that they were placed on the Spasskaya Tower shortly after its construction (1491). However, documentary evidence of this dates back to the 16th century. Who made the clock and what it was like has not yet been established exactly. In archival materials only from 1585 there is a mention of the watchmakers of the Frolovsky (Spassky), Trinity and Tainitsky gates. Documents have been preserved that show that watchmakers received 4 rubles and 2 hryvnias per year for their work and 4 arshins of cloth for clothes.
At the beginning of the 17th century, this watch was sold in Yaroslavl, and from the surviving bill of sale we know that it weighed 960 kilograms. But the documents do not mention what kind of call they received.
A second clock appeared on the Spasskaya Tower, which was built in 1625. They were assembled under the leadership of the English master Christopher Golovey, who was invited to install the chimes by Tsar Mikhail Romanov. Thirty bells, cast by master Kirill Samoilov, chimed every hour. This mechanism was repaired several times after numerous Kremlin fires, but fire July 19, 1701 the chimes did not survive.
New chimes, by order of Peter the Great, were delivered from Amsterdam to Moscow on 30 carts. They struck the hours and quarters and rang 33 bells. It is known for certain that Muscovites heard it for the first time on December 9, 1706 at 9 am.
Alas, this watch suffered the same sad fate as the previous mechanisms. They were repaired several times, but after the fire of 1737 The chimes finally rose.
In 1763, a “large chime clock” made in England was removed from the premises under the Chamber of Facets. It took master Ivan Polyansky three years to install them on the Spasskaya Tower. The mechanism served faithfully for several decades, during which its parts wore out and the clock stopped working. Their repairs were carried out at the Butenop brothers' factories for two years. There, a musical mechanism was re-created that performed the march of the Preobrazhensky Regiment from the times of Peter the Great and the melody of D.S. Bortnyansky “How Glorious is Our Lord in Zion.” So that the belfry could play these melodies, it was supplemented with 24 bells. 16 of them were removed from the Trinity Tower and 8 from Borovitskaya. After this, the number of bells in the belfry reached 58, and 13 of them were cast for the Golovei chimes.
In 1860, the chimes surprised Muscovites with a new melody. It was the German mechanic Fatz, invited to service the clock, who retuned the copper musical shaft to the simple melody “Ah, my dear Augustine.” However, Nicholas the First considered this song unworthy of the main clock of the state. By the way, earlier Nicholas did not allow the shaft to be tuned to “God Save the Tsar,” believing that the chimes should not play the national anthem.
In the revolutionary year of 1917, a shell hit the dial of the chimes, and the watch was repaired in 1919 by master N.V. Berne. Now the melodies of the “Internationale” and the funeral march “You have fallen a victim” were played on the musical shaft. These two melodies alternated (at noon and midnight) and sounded until 1932, when it was decided to leave only “Internationale”. In 1938, the performance of this melody stopped. Now the chimes only chimed quarters and whole hours.
In 1974, the chimes were stopped for a hundred days. During this time, the watch mechanism was completely disassembled, all worn parts were replaced. A device for automatic lubrication of parts was designed. But the musical mechanism was never repaired.
On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Plenum of the Central Committee decided that the chimes should play the national anthem, written by Alexandrov. However, experts who examined the musical mechanism came to the conclusion that the available bells it is impossible to play this melody.
Everyone probably knows the principle of operation of an ordinary music box. It was invented several centuries ago, but was especially widespread in the 18th and 19th centuries, when even pocket watches, cigarette cases and snuff boxes played various melodies. The musical mechanism had a so-called program cylinder, seated with small short pins. When the cylinder rotated, they set thin metal plates into sound.
The Kremlin chimes also have a program cylinder, but its diameter is about 2 meters and its width is more than 2 meters. The mechanism is driven by a heavy weight weighing more than 200 kilograms.
After the clock strikes, the chime mechanism stopper is disabled. A huge cylinder bristling with a thousand steel pins rotates slowly. Busy with pins
30 tracks for one piece and 30 for another. Each track is dedicated to one bell. The sizes of the chime bells are different, therefore they produce different sounds: from a thick bass to a ringing treble. The weight of bells depends on their size - from tens to hundreds of kilograms. The largest bell weighs 500 kilograms.
When the program cylinder rotates, the pins touch a special device like a pedal. The pedal is connected by a steel cable to a striking mechanism (it is located above, on the 10th floor, where the bells hang). A cable pulls a specially shaped hammer from the edge of the bell, the pin breaks off the pedal, and the hammer hits the edge of the bell, producing sound from it.
While over the course of many decades the Kremlin chimes underwent all sorts of alterations, the clock mechanism always worked properly and almost never stopped.
And the music of the Moscow chimes did not sound until 1996. Then the inauguration of B.N. took place. Yeltsin, to which the music center was again repaired. This time he was “taught” to perform “Patriotic Song” and “Glory” by Glinka. To do this, we recorded the sound of each bell and analyzed both melodies using a computer. Smart electronics suggested how many bells and what tone were missing. Three missing bells were cast in Holland, delivered to Moscow and installed on the belfry.
And today you can hear Glinka’s melodies performed by the Moscow chimes. Of course, if you find yourself on Red Square at noon or midnight.
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For Russians, these sounds, like champagne and Olivier salad, have long been an integral attribute of the New Year. Only the main question is, when exactly it occurs, there is still no complete clarity - with the chime of the bell, with the first or last strike of the chimes.
The exact Kremlin time is kept behind iron bars. Access to the holy of holies, the Spasskaya Tower, is only accompanied. Regime object. No elevators. Almost 10 floors up on foot along ancient spiral staircases.
Each hand is 3 meters, the dial itself is 6. The size is not so noticeable from the paving stones, but the main clock of the country occupies several floors. Wheels and gears larger than a man, a huge musical drum, a 32-kilogram pendulum - in total, the entire structure weighs more than 25 tons. In all other respects, the chimes are the most ordinary mechanical watches.
Evgeny Fedoseev, head of the Time Service of the Astronomical Institute. Sternberg: “The New Year begins at the first sound of the chimes. Ding-ding-ding. It’s already the New Year and we need to shout, congratulate and celebrate, but all these blows and signs come later.”
The wheels started turning. Began. This is how the arrival of the new year to replace the old one looks like in the heart of the main clock of the country.
And if we approach the problem even more pedantically, here it is:
The moment of the new year is a conditional and relative concept. How to negotiate. If you live in a city, then at different ends of it (west - east) the moment 24-00 LOCAL TIME will be at different times. In mid-latitudes, with a difference in distance of about 15 km, the difference will already be a minute.
So:
The first strike of twelve sounds ten seconds after the start of a new day. And their change occurs when the chimes begin to chime. That is, the beginning of the chime coincides with the instant of the change of day. At zero hours zero minutes zero seconds the chime begins. Ten seconds later, the first bell sounds, chiming the entire hour.
The first clocks in Moscow appeared in 1404. At that time, Moscow was already a big city, and the Kremlin was the residence of the great princes. The Kremlin clock was one of the first in Europe and was considered a miracle of its time. This clock was located in the courtyard of Grand Duke Vasily Dimitrievich on Cathedral Square, not far from the Annunciation Cathedral. The chronicler described their structure in the following way: “This watchmaker will be called the watchmaker; at every hour he strikes the bell with a hammer, measuring and counting the hours of the night and day; not a man striking, but human-like, self-resonant and self-moving, strangely created somehow by human cunning, pre-imagined and cunning.”
It is not known exactly when the Kremlin tower clock appeared. There is an assumption that they were placed on the Spasskaya Tower shortly after its construction (1491). However, documentary evidence of this dates back to the 16th century. Who made the clock and what it was like has not yet been established exactly.
At the beginning of the 17th century, this watch was sold to Yaroslavl, and from the surviving bill of sale we know that it weighed 960 kilograms. But the documents do not mention what kind of call they received.
A second clock appeared on the Spasskaya Tower, which was built in 1625. They were assembled under the leadership of the English master Christopher Golovey, who was invited to install the chimes by Tsar Mikhail Romanov. Thirty bells, cast by master Kirill Samoilov, chimed every hour. This mechanism was repaired several times after numerous Kremlin fires, but the chimes did not survive the fire of July 19, 1701.
New chimes, by order of Peter the Great, were delivered from Amsterdam to Moscow on 30 carts. They struck the hours and quarters and performed the chime on 33 bells. It is known for certain that Muscovites heard it for the first time on December 9, 1706 at 9 am.
Alas, this watch suffered the same sad fate as the previous mechanisms. They were repaired several times, but after the fire of 1737 the chimes stopped working for good.
In 1763, a “large chime clock” made in England was removed from the premises under the Chamber of Facets. It took master Ivan Polyansky three years to install them on the Spasskaya Tower. The mechanism served faithfully for several decades, during which its parts wore out and the clock stopped working. Their repairs were carried out at the Butenop brothers' factories for two years. There, a musical mechanism was re-created that performed the march of the Preobrazhensky Regiment from the times of Peter the Great and the melody of D.S. Bortnyansky “How Glorious is Our Lord in Zion.”
In 1860, the chimes surprised Muscovites with a new melody. It was the German mechanic Fatz, invited to service the watch, who retuned the copper musical shaft to the simple melody of “Ah, my dear Augustine.” However, Nicholas the First considered this song unworthy of the main clock of the state. By the way, earlier Nicholas did not allow the shaft to be tuned to “God Save the Tsar,” believing that the chimes should not play the national anthem.
In the revolutionary year of 1917, a shell hit the dial of the chimes, and the watch was repaired in 1919 by master N.V. Berne. Now the melodies of the “Internationale” and the funeral march “You have fallen a victim” were played on the musical shaft. These two melodies alternated (at noon and midnight) and sounded until 1932, when it was decided to leave only “Internationale”. In 1938, the performance of this melody stopped. Now the chimes only struck quarters and whole hours.
In 1974, the chimes were stopped for one hundred days. During this time, the watch mechanism was completely disassembled, all worn parts were replaced. A device for automatic lubrication of parts was designed. But the musical mechanism was never repaired.
On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Plenum of the Central Committee decided that the chimes should play the national anthem, written by Alexandrov. However, experts who examined the musical mechanism came to the conclusion that it was impossible to play this melody with the available bells.
Everyone probably knows the principle of operation of an ordinary music box. It was invented several centuries ago, but was especially widespread in the 18th and 19th centuries, when even pocket watches, cigarette cases and snuff boxes played various melodies. The musical mechanism had a so-called program cylinder, seated with small short pins. When the cylinder rotated, they set thin metal plates into sound.
The Kremlin chimes also have a program cylinder, but its diameter is about 2 meters and its width is more than 2 meters. The mechanism is driven by a heavy weight weighing more than 200 kilograms.
After the clock strikes, the chime mechanism stopper is disabled. A huge cylinder bristling with a thousand steel pins rotates slowly.
The sizes of the chime bells are different, therefore they produce different sounds: from a thick bass to a ringing treble. The weight of bells depends on their size - from tens to hundreds of kilograms. The weight of the largest bell is 500 kilograms.
When the program cylinder rotates, the pins touch a special device like a pedal. The pedal is connected by a steel cable to a striking mechanism (it is located above, on the 10th floor, where the bells hang). A cable pulls a specially shaped hammer from the edge of the bell, the pin breaks off the pedal, and the hammer hits the edge of the bell, producing sound from it.
While over the course of many decades the Kremlin chimes underwent all sorts of alterations, the clock mechanism always worked properly and almost never stopped.
And the music of the Moscow chimes did not sound until 1996. Then the inauguration of B.N. took place. Yeltsin, to which the music center was again repaired. This time he was “taught” to perform “Patriotic Song” and “Glory” by Glinka. To do this, we recorded the sound of each bell and analyzed both melodies using a computer. Smart electronics suggested how many bells and what tone were missing. The three missing bells were cast in Holland, delivered to Moscow and installed on the belfry.
And today you can hear Glinka’s melodies performed by the Moscow chimes. Of course, if you find yourself on Red Square at noon or midnight.
You may be surprised, but statistics show that more than half of the population of our country makes wishes for the New Year. There are no statistics on what percentage of the wish is fulfilled. But a magical night is needed to make a secret wish and believe that it will definitely come true.
Even experts are sure that the New Year's Eve has its own special, very strong energy. Many people begin to believe in miracles and magic. Therefore, people are often interested in how to correctly make a wish for the New Year while the chimes are striking.
There are different options for how you can do this:
Eat 12 grapes. It is necessary to prepare 12 large grapes in advance and, when the chimes begin, try to eat them all, while constantly repeating your cherished desire to yourself. Grapes are what the Spaniards traditionally eat on New Year's Day when the clock strikes. It seems that the Spaniards are happy and successful people, which means the grapes work. Therefore, put all your faith in your wish and hope that 2015 will definitely bring you the miracle you are waiting for;
A glass of champagne and ashes. It is considered one of the most powerful New Year rituals, which must be carried out when the chimes strike. You need to take a piece of paper and write your deepest desire on it. When the clock begins to strike and announce the coming of the new year, you need to set fire to the paper over your glass so that the ashes fall into the drink. Then stir the ashes into champagne and drink it. The entire ritual must be completed before the end of the battle.
This is interesting! Due to the fact that most rituals place people within clear boundaries, it becomes interesting how many times the chimes strike for the New Year and how many seconds the chimes strike for the New Year. 12 chimes are theoretically equal to twelve seconds. But, if we take the full chronology, then the melody before the start of the battle lasts 20 seconds, and 12 beats account for 40 seconds. That is, a little less than four seconds per blow.
Candles. Another ritual on how to correctly make a wish for the New Year while the chimes are striking. You need to take a candle and, before midnight, hold it in your hands and tell it about your cherished desire. Then, with the start of the chiming clock, light the candle and once again tell the flame about your desire. Now leave the candle on the festive table and let it burn out until the end.
During the chiming clock, you need to jump 12 times, each time repeating your wish to yourself.
In order for what you want to come true, it is important not only when to make a wish for the New Year, but also how to do it. It is those desires that are correctly formulated that come true.
How to correctly formulate a desire:
1. More specifics. You don’t just need to make a wish on New Year’s Day that you want to meet a man. Otherwise, your subconscious will understand this desire in the literal sense and, perhaps, the first person you meet in the new 2015 will be a man. But, if you want to meet your loved one or fall in love, then you need to formulate your desire there. That is, the formulation must be complete and complete. Therefore, make a wish that you want to meet an intelligent and wealthy man whom you will love and who will love you, so that you can live your life happily with this man;
2. Don't limit yourself in the ways you can get what you want. The subconscious has its own energy, and it is able to find the shortest path to your goal if you do not interfere with it. When you think that you want to earn money and buy a car, then you limit yourself. After all, you can get what you want (a car), but not necessarily through hard work. Remember this and wish for exactly what you want, and not specific paths to it;
3. Concentrate on one desire. If you have a specific dream for the next year, then you need to concentrate only on it, forgetting about everything else that is less important. Free up your energy specifically to achieve a specific dream; other goals can even be left to chance. Highlight the main thing. This is what you wish for in the New Year!
4. Be sure to think carefully about your desire and decide how true it is and comes from the bottom of your heart. Sometimes desires are caused by envy, fear, resentment - and these are the wrong goals that will not bring you anything good in the new year. If it is difficult to understand how sincere the desire is, then you need to imagine that it has already come true. Now tell me what feelings overcome you, are you happy about what happened?
Are you experiencing happiness or discomfort? Remember that even if false desires come true, they will not bring happiness.
A conspiracy when the chimes strike for the New Year and even before the New Year is an excellent opportunity to ensure happiness for yourself next year. For example, a ritual that will save you from problems and troubles next year is to clean the house. It is necessary to collect and throw away all unnecessary items and trash a few hours before the onset of the New Year.
Another ritual that will bring financial well-being is decorating the Christmas tree with coins and banknotes. If you need love in 2015, then decorate your space with hearts. A good conspiracy is to write a letter to yourself half an hour before the chimes and describe all your plans for the coming year, be sure to also indicate your most cherished dreams.
To make your wish come true, be sure to remember what you asked fate for on New Year's midnight. Often people simply forget their wishes, and then they say that what they made for the New Year did not come true. We wish you bright moments and incredibly pleasant surprises in the new 2015!
With what strike of the chimes on the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower New Year is coming? With the first? No! Is it really the last one? Also no!
The first strike of twelve sounds ten seconds after the start of a new day. And their change occurs when the chimes begin to chime. More precisely, of course, it’s the other way around: the beginning of the chime coincides with the moment the day changes. At zero hours zero minutes zero seconds chime starts. Ten seconds later, the first bell sounds, chiming the entire hour.
By the way, at different times the Moscow Kremlin chimes played different melodies. A tower clock appeared on the Spasskaya Tower back at the end of the 15th century under Ivan the Third. At the beginning of the 17th century, this watch was sold to Yaroslavl, and from the surviving bill of sale we know that it weighed 960 kilograms. But the documents do not mention what kind of call they received.
A second clock appeared on the Spasskaya Tower, which was built in 1625. They were assembled under the leadership of the English master Christopher Golovey, who was invited to install the chimes by Tsar Mikhail Romanov. Thirty bells, cast by master Kirill Samoilov, chimed every hour. This mechanism was repaired several times after numerous Kremlin fires, but fire July 19, 1701 the chimes did not survive.
New chimes, by order of Peter the Great, were delivered from Amsterdam to Moscow on 30 carts. They struck the hours and quarters and performed the chime on 33 bells. It is known for certain that Muscovites heard it for the first time on December 9, 1706 at 9 am.
Alas, this watch suffered the same sad fate as the previous mechanisms. They were repaired several times, but after the fire of 1737 The chimes finally rose.
In 1763, a “large chime clock” made in England was removed from the premises under the Chamber of Facets. It took master Ivan Polyansky three years to install them on the Spasskaya Tower. The mechanism served faithfully for several decades, during which its parts wore out and the clock stopped working. Their repairs were carried out at the Butenop brothers' factories for two years. There, a musical mechanism was re-created that performed the march of the Preobrazhensky Regiment from the times of Peter the Great and the melody of D.S. Bortnyansky “How Glorious is Our Lord in Zion.” So that the belfry could play these melodies, it was supplemented with 24 bells. 16 of them were removed from the Trinity Tower and 8 from Borovitskaya. After this, the number of bells in the belfry reached 58, and 13 of them were cast for Golovey’s chimes.
In 1860, the chimes surprised Muscovites with a new melody. It was the German mechanic Fatz, invited to service the watch, who retuned the copper musical shaft to the simple melody of “Ah, my dear Augustine.” However, Nicholas the First considered this song unworthy of the main clock of the state. By the way, earlier Nicholas did not allow the shaft to be tuned to “God Save the Tsar,” believing that the chimes should not play the national anthem.
In the revolutionary year of 1917, a shell hit the dial of the chimes, and the watch was repaired in 1919 by master N.V. Berne. Now the melodies of the “Internationale” and the funeral march “You have fallen a victim” were played on the musical shaft. These two melodies alternated (at noon and midnight) and sounded until 1932, when it was decided to leave only “Internationale”. In 1938, the performance of this melody stopped. Now the chimes only struck quarters and whole hours.
In 1974, the chimes were stopped for a hundred days. During this time, the watch mechanism was completely disassembled, all worn parts were replaced. A device for automatic lubrication of parts was designed. But the musical mechanism was never repaired.
On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Plenum of the Central Committee decided that the chimes should play the national anthem, written by Alexandrov. However, experts who examined the musical mechanism came to the conclusion that the existing bells it is impossible to play this melody.
And the music of the Moscow chimes did not sound until 1996. Then the inauguration of B.N. took place. Yeltsin, to which the music center was again repaired. This time he was “taught” to perform “Patriotic Song” and “Glory” by Glinka. To do this, we recorded the sound of each bell and analyzed both melodies using a computer. Smart electronics suggested how many bells and what tone were missing. The three missing bells were cast in Holland, delivered to Moscow and installed on the belfry.
And today you can hear Glinka’s melodies performed by the Moscow chimes. Of course, if you find yourself on Red Square at noon or midnight.
