Maslenitsa масленица. Where? When? How? In Russia, every year one week of February to March, they celebrate send winter and come spring. 56 days before.

Maslenitsa масленица

Where? When? How? In Russia, every year one week of February to March, they celebrate send winter and come spring. 56 days before Easter

Alias : Butter festival It is named butter festival from butter to put in blini Blini???

Blini is like a crape. They eat blini everyday for the Maslenitsa.

The end of the Maslenitsa is the start to prepare period of the Easter. They cannot eat dairy product until the Easter, so they eat blini.

How to eat blini? put a salmon roe put on sour cream

Maslenitsa’s history and background Festival of old slab. Religious ceremonies of the Russian Orthodox Church in Rus era.

Masle mean “spirit of sun” and “oil, butter”. ”They ask spirit of sun “pleas end cold winter and bring warm spring”.

To ask spirit of sun, straw doll that Maslenitsa is burned on the final day

This year’s Maslenitsa February 24 ~ March 2

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