festival
Saint Peter's Day
Saint Peter's day
also: Петров день, Petrov den'
The feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June, Old Style), the traditional date marking the legal opening of the Russian hunting season; Pavel is caught hunting weeks before it.
Reading notes
- The Bride §77 St. Peter's Day
The feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June, Old Style); Andrei Andreich takes Nadya to inspect their newly furnished flat on this day, a little over a week before the planned wedding.
- He Understood! §15 Saint Peter's day
Petrov den', the feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June O.S.), the traditional date after which the Russian hunting season legally opened; shooting game before it, as Pavel has done, was against the law.