Onion and fish day and Seto Michaelmas Day

On Saturday, October 4, from 11:00 to 16:00

 

How could one possibly not mark with honor the close of the autumn fieldwork and the grazing season? At the Onion and Fish Day of the borderlands, you are awaited by celebrations of the harvest festival of the Seto people and the Russian Old Believers.

Both peoples are famed as skilled farmers and fishermen, so at the fair visitors will be able to buy the finest Lake Peipus onions, all sorts of fish, and more. In the Old Believer’s house from the Peipus area at the Estonian Open Air Museum, as well as at the Seto farmstead, one can explore the culinary traditions and crafts of the people of Peipus and the Seto community.

Village meadow between the Seto farmstead Vanatalo and the Pechonkin Old Believer’s house from Peipus

11:00–16:00

Fair of Peipus onions, fish, other foods, and more.

Making sauerkraut, salting mushrooms.

Folk games and competitions of the Old Believers and Seto..

Onion lore workshop and contest.

 

Barn of the Seto farmstead Vanatalo

11:00–16:00 Cabbage soup with lamb and other festive dishes served by Kolu Tavern.

12:00 Concert of Slavic folk songs performed by Sander Udikas, Konstantin Sedov, and Inga Pogonina.

13:00 Concert of the Seto leelo choir Sõsarõ.

 

Old log house of Vanatalo farmstead

11:00–16:00 Workshop on making lucky dolls.

 

New log house of Vanatalo farmstead

11:00–16:00 Cooking Seto onion and fish dishes.

 

Pechonkin Old Believer’s house from Peipus

11:00-16:00 Cooking Old Believer onion and fish dishes.

13:00 Pavel Varunin introduces the culture and language of the Old Believers.

Attention! The most convenient way to reach the event is from the rear gate and parking area opening to Kakumäe, as well as from the Õismäe raba bus stop, where buses 21, 21a, and 21b stop.

The event is free of charge for holders of the museum card, Tallinn Card, and the annual pass of the Estonian Open Air Museum!

How to get to the museum?

On October 4, both the main gate and the back gate of the museum will be open (about 1 km in the direction of Kakumäe). Buses No. 21 and 21B will take you to the museum (the nearest bus stop to the Setu farm and the House of an Old Believer is Õismäe Raba). Buses No. 41 and 41b lead from the museum to the city center. You can park your car for free in the parking lot at the main gate as well as in the parking lot behind the museum.