The host of the programs "Morning in the Big City" and "Comedian for a Million" (ICTV) Anton Ravitsky is able to arrange a party around. Telenedelya learned what he needed to create a festive atmosphere at home.
Feeling of a fairytale Anton, how do you feel about the winter holidays? Are you waiting for them, as in childhood?.
Let me immediately admit to you: men - they are children for life. Therefore, as in 5, as in 7 or 11 years, I wait for winter holidays and still lie to myself that since this New Year everything will definitely go in a new way: I will necessarily make myself cook not delicious but useful, I will not be engaged in cheerful, and wellness and go to the gym more than once, but twice.
In Week?.
Per month! (Smiling. ) So the beginning of January for me as a milestone. I look forward and believe that this time something will happen.
And admit, until what years did they believe in Grandfather Frost and Snow Maiden?.
I am a happy child, because my parents working in the theater provided me with a winter fairytale atmosphere at the highest level. Other children were suspicious of this - why did Father and Father Frost never go to the same room at the same time? With me at the same time could be Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, fairy-tale heroes, father and mother. Until now, I say "thank you" to those actors unknown to me, who from year to year made round theatrical children, creating us an amazing sense of the fairy tale.
Poems to tell under the Christmas tree, my mother helped teach?.
Children actors live a little in another reality. Poems with us are taught mainly by grandparents, because at this time parents have a Christmas tree! The whole burden of responsibility was usually assumed by my charming grandmother on my mother's side, Maria Feodorovna, who lived with us. I can not say that I was diligent - it's her preparation for the holiday, and I have - winter, let's sculpt snowmen everywhere! Therefore, everything that I read aloud was in many ways a surprise for my parents. Sometimes I gave out such creative opuses that when they listened to me, they understood that the book with the obscene poems had to be hidden better. (Smiling. ) In the childhood you put a living or artificial Christmas tree?.
I grew up at a time when the protection of the environment was not particularly thought of, so every year on the eve of St. Nicholas' Day a lively Christmas tree appeared. It was very joyful, pressing my cheek against the window of my bedroom and looking down, see that there was already a fluffy green miracle on the parental balcony. I still remember this anticipation: another day or two - and she will be put up in the living room and dressed up. Christmas tree, as gifts, created an atmosphere of joy.
Father Frost in mini format Probably, often the parents were not at home on New Year's Eve? Where and with whom did you celebrate then?.
Being parents-actors means living according to a strange and incomprehensible schedule for most people. For the New Year, usually there are festive performances, for which they pay with great desire. My dad and mom used the opportunity to earn extra money, so I often stayed at home with my grandmother, grandfather and a decorated Christmas tree. But it did not spoil my New Year at all! Rather, it created the feeling that the holiday was mainly for me, and adults still went to work.
When they grew older, they began to take me with them. Therefore, somewhere from the mid-90s, my normal entertainment on New Year's Eve was to fight the chimes to stand in a crowd of people somewhere on Deribasovskaya, near the stage. That I was not lost, someone was put to me from the theater or from the family of other actors. Funny alcoholics, homeless crazy and other happy people around created for me the entourage of unrestrained New Year's fun.
On the stage in the New Year's performances, too, probably went out?.
When the father is the director and the mother is the actress, you can not have a different fate, except how to constantly participate in the New Year's interludes. Most often I pictured the upcoming New Year - was such a small Santa Claus without a beard. I was dressed in a red sheepskin, red boots, on my chest - a red ribbon with silver numbers of the coming year. In this form, he solemnly walked around the stage and earned his first fees. Year in the 90th for participation in New Year's fur-trees I was paid as much as 15 rubles.
And only "material" memories are pleasing - or was there something else?.
My favorite story is connected with one phone conversation. Parents left to work in Canada and on New Year's Eve were far beyond the ocean. And then talking on the phone was enough "fun" entertainment - in the beginning it was necessary to reach the switchboard, say that "we dial Odessa", wait until they connect.
So, despite all the difficulties and bad communication, a few seconds after the 12th stroke of the house chimes, a phone call came and I heard native voices that began to congratulate me on the New Year. This is really New Year's magic! Only then I realized that the parents had to take into account also the difference in time. That is, literally in the middle of the day in Canada, quit work and call me.
No corporate!.
What New Year traditions did your parents have?.
The main tradition is to decorate the whole family with a family. Dad was responsible for "hard physical work" - drag her into the house, cut off the lower branches and stuck into the stand. Then came time for me, mom and grandmother. From the mezzanine was a large box of decorations and began a favorite fun - quarrel over how to decorate a Christmas tree. "Where did you hang it?" We have a completely different idea! It breaks the concept! "In the end, I just made sure that the toys were securely fixed. And I understood this task in my own way - I was running around and constantly touching them. Those that broke up and were badly hung. I can say that I worked as a quality control engineer. (Smiling. ) And what traditions or even rituals are there in your own family?.
In my family they are more connected with the day of St. Nicholas and Christmas, these holidays touch me much more. At Nicholas I bake gingerbread, at Christmas I try to feed them friends, wishing all the best. And the New Year is such a reporting line that I try to spend in a comfortable relaxed state. No wonder they say: "How to meet a year, so you'll spend it". Therefore, the main thing is that at that moment it was good. The second condition - I basically never work on the night of December 31st on January 1. If the name is to lead the corporate, I tactfully explain that the New Year's Eve is a family holiday for me. By the way, although I also consider the smell of needles as an attribute of this holiday, we do not put a Christmas tree at home. Apparently, with age I became sentimental. I'm sad to look at how a tree dies. But the lack of a couple of branches and cones to him so much will not do much harm and will perfectly cope with the substitution.
Gifts with his wife are exchanged? By what principle do you choose them?.
I have a wonderful wife who understands that in terms of responsibility for gifts, men are decorative enough creatures. (Smiling. ) Therefore, she usually comes to me in advance and says: "Look, you will give me this for the New Year". "Wow! It I such fellow? I already ordered it? "- I answer her. - "Yes! And the right size and color. And now you need to decide with yours ". After that, I usually score in the search engine the phrase "10 gifts to a man inexpensive" and show Arisha that it can be. Then all the gifts are wrapped in a beautiful wrapper. And on New Year's Eve exactly with the twelfth blow we run to the place where they are dumped, we tear paper and with shouts "Wow, how did you guess? "And" How did you manage to order this? " »Start the new year.
Anything but canned food How did you meet the 2018th?.
This new year was, in my opinion, almost perfect. We met him with Arisha at home, where it was warm and cozy. We watched a pre-prepared selection of New Year's films, drank wine and discussed plans for the future.
I know that you love to cook. What makes your wife happy on New Year's Eve?.
I have long since given up the idea of ??bringing home all the tastiest things that were in shops within a 3 km radius, standing in the kitchen for three days, then all this desperately to eat, sitting in front of the TV, feel bad the first day and then finish it, what's left. Therefore, on the New Year's table, we had light meat snacks and fruit-vegetables.
Share your favorite recipe for a festive dish.
For Christmas, I usually bake a goose. And on the table we often have a stuffed goose's neck. I removed my skin from the goose, washed it, put it in the freezer. And before the holiday thawed, pushed minced meat. You can also add rice, nuts or mushrooms. Then sewed, boiled, fried, sliced ??- it turns out easily and quickly. Excellent snack, and besides not missing a large enough piece of goose. (Smiling. ) Where does your love for cooking come from? Who taught you to cook?.
When the parents are on tour, grandfather at work, and grandmothers, unfortunately, pretty soon did not become, you either eat canned food, carefully folded in the pantry, or learn to create your own food. I chose the second. Yes, my first experiments led to the fact that I still had to eat canned food. But gradually mastered this art. Thanks, of course, to my mother - a very talented chef, who is distracted by an equally talented acting career.
She taught me how to cook. And my dad, like most men, was able to fry eggs and something to warm up. So he taught me to eat everything that is given. Until now, I remember how once, in the absence of my mother, we decided to fry the cutlets with him. As a result, we obtained semi-liquid meat pancakes. Because there was a lot of bread soaked in milk and not enough meat. But it's fun!.
What do you wish our readers?.
Dear, beloved, wonderful people!
I wish you, in the New Year that has come, to be able to, not being cunning in front of yourself, to rejoice at every day. And that you have for this purpose there were occasions that you had time to see and enjoy them. Let every new day create a feeling that everything is not in vain, that you are moving in the right direction. And with the difficulties that are encountered along the way, you will manage. Because "I'm good"! If you yourself believe it, everything will just come true!.
Text: Inna Smirnova.