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Maslenitsaмасленица
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