The artist of the pen" that the main meaning of November 4 remains another day off, replacing November 7: the Russian holiday of tomorrow is not very lucky with the date, which due to historical circumstances remains in the shadow of the anniversary of the October Revolution. Of course, the revolutionary holiday has long since ceased to be a weekend and a red day on the calendar, but in the previous era it was so inherent in the agenda that even today, by default, it remains a prominent background for all the events that take place the week before and the week after November 7. Of course, they do not choose history, they live with it and drink it, and since the companies of Minin and Pozharsky liberated Moscow from the Polish invaders on November 4, 1612, it means that they could not cope with the task earlier, but it is certainly not appropriate to reproach the heroic ancestors for not timing this victory with the new year or holiday now. It was easier and more convenient for descendants to create a new holiday calendar. National Unity Day, which falls on November 4, is good because it gives the country an extra day off in the middle of the week, and even a short work day the day before. Nothing consolidates and unites as strongly as a holiday on Wednesday, when only about thirty or forty years ago the country worked and did not want to have a break.