Russian Orthodox Church

autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church

Maslenitsa (; ; ; ), also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual. It is celebrated during the last week before Great Lent; that is, the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha, equivalent to the West's Sexagesima.

Russian order

ongoing split between the Eastern Orthodox patriarchates of Moscow and Constantinople

The cross with 2 horizontal crossbeams and the lower one is slanted.

Russian-language encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity

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