Алые паруса 2013. Романтическая традиция белых ночей /5 канал Санкт-Петербурга www.5-tv.ru /. St.-Petersburg has a phenomenal romantic holiday for students, school graduates, schoolboys and cadets (show of celebrating the end of school year). Yes, only the ship of dreams can have scarlet sails. But in order to understand the meaning of this holiday it is necessary to read the book by a most romantic and mostly Petersburg Russian writer Alexander Grin the " Scarlet Sails", the book, doing absolute justice to a romantic dream!
The holiday has a slightly nostalgic shade due to the memory of pre-WWII days' talented girls of "Scarlet Sails" who lost their lives proving absolute justice of a romantic dream: high school students --Aliya Moldagulova, who became a sniper and was killed, and Helen, the daughter of Nicolai Gumilev, who died defending her native city during the siege in 1942.
This tradition was begun by city survivors after the Siege and the end of WWII, when graduate students of several schools united to celebrate the end of a school year, associating the day with the symbolism of the children's book Scarlet Sails by Alexander Grin, popular before WWII.
Thus the "Ship of Dream" under scarlet sails moves along the English and the Admiralty Embankments towards the Winter Palace.
The "Scarlet Sails" tradition eventually evolved into a huge demonstration of deliverance from "schools and rules" and became a most popular public event ever since, celebrating the end of every school year.
The Scarlet Sails celebration takes place in St-Petersburg, Russia, and is the most popular and famous public event during the White Nights Festival.
