Friday 13

Tomorrow, on Valentine's Day, a boom in marriage registrations is expected in Tomsk. And today newlyweds are in no hurry to go to the registry office. According to ancient beliefs, Friday the 13th is not a lucky day. It's a sanitary day at the Wedding Palace. There were no people willing to get married on Friday the 13th. So the staff had no choice but to do a general cleaning of the Palace today. Everyone is intensively preparing for the large army of newlyweds who will pour in tomorrow, on Valentine's Day.
In the city registry office, 10 couples today still took the risk of combining incompatible things. The happiest day in life fell on the unluckiest day, according to popular belief.
Nadezhda Shumikhina: “We have been living with my husband for 40 years. And they got married on May 15th. Everyone told me it wasn't possible. But nothing like that. The main thing is a good attitude.”
However, despite the fact that neither the newlyweds, nor their relatives, nor even the registry office specialist Marina Ananyeva, who registered the marriages today, believe in superstitions, Friday the 13th was not without surprises and incidents. Marina Ananyeva, chief specialist of the city registry office: “Today I took the keys from the house and left a child and a dog in the apartment. I had to go home."
Lyudmila Petrovna and Mikhail Zakharovich, after 15 years of marriage, finally decided to officially register their relationship. And magical Friday the 13th has nothing to do with it. They are just very disciplined people.