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A pancake week starts in Vologda today.
20.02.2023 15:52
Russian Pancake week called " Maslenitsa" will be celebrated from Monday February 20th to Sunday February 26th.
A popular Maslenitsa festival, a weeklong celebration of Russian music, dancing and pancakes marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It has its origins in pagan sun worship.
The week’s festivities will kick off on February 20, even though, climate-wise, it still feels like winter. To warm themselves, Russians spend the festival week eating tons of pancakes. The Maslenitsa menu includes stacks of pancakes with countless different kinds of fillings.
This Slavic festival is marked not only by eating pancakes but also by riding on troikas and parading around the Maslenitsa effigy, which symbolizes the harsh winter. The most charming carnival tradition of Maslenitsa is the conquest of the snow town, burning a woman of straw symbolizing winter, lighting fires, leaving festival food on the ancestors' graves.
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