Maslenitsa festivities are celebrated in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the press service of the administration of the Kamchatka Territory reports on March 17.
The events took place near the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky polling stations. The festive program, organized on the last day of voting in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation, was attended not only by residents of the regional capital, but also electoral experts from Serbia, Argentina, Indonesia, Paraguay, Algeria and Russia. Democratic Republic of Congo.
Performances by dance and music groups were organized for the guests of the event, and a gift was prepared for the townspeople: Russian pancakes.
Let us remember that Maslenitsa is a traditional East Slavic holiday that is celebrated during the week before Lent and that preserves in its ritual basis a series of elements from pre-Christian Slavic mythology.
In the popular calendar of the Eastern Slavs, the holiday marks the border between winter and spring, as well as between the Flesh Eater and Lent. An analogue of carnival in European countries. Maslenitsa is similar to “Fat Tuesday” and Empty Meat among Catholics. In the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, this period is called Cheese Week. The names of Empty Meat Week, Empty Meat Week and Cheese Week in Russia were used only in the calendar as “church names.”
The date of Maslenitsa changes every year depending on the date of Easter. Traditional attributes of the popular celebration of Maslenitsa are the Maslenitsa scarecrow, fun, sleigh rides, festivities; Russians eat pancakes and flatbreads, while Belarusians and Ukrainians eat dumplings, syrniki and kolodka.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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