Celebrate Maslenitsa in Russia
Week from 8 March 2021 to 14 March 2021
Forget about your diet! This week is all about eating pancakes and partying!!!
๐ Maslenitsa (Pancake week) in Russia. A week before long 40 days abstinence which ends by Paskha (Holy Easter). We say farwell to winter time, we are waiting for spring.
๐ There are folk festivals, snowball fights, horses pulling sledges (mainly in the countryside), and loads of opportunities to dress up.
๐ The pancakes represent the Sun in line with Slavic pagan tradition.
๐ Maslenitsa happens during the last week before the onset of Great Lent and is the last chance for Orthodox Christians to eat eggs, milk, cheese, and other dairy products.
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