Maslenitsa
Sign in to saveMaslenitsa (; ; ; ), 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.
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Maslenitsa is an Eastern Slavic holiday celebrated during the week before Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox calendar, and it has preserved ancient Slavic mythological traditions in its rituals and practices. The holiday, also called Butter Week or Crepe Week, marks a festive period of preparation before the fasting season begins.
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- Holiday.holiday_name
- Maslenitsa
- Holiday.nickname
- Butter Week, Crepe week, Cheesefare Week, Syropust, Kolodiya, Masnytsia
- Holiday.type
- Ethnic
- Holiday.image
- Maslenitsa kustodiev.jpg
- Holiday.caption
- Maslenitsa, Boris Kustodiev, 1919 (Isaak Brodsky Museum, St. Petersburg)
- Holiday.observedby
- Eastern Slavs Mostly Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian diaspora communities
- Holiday.date2011
- 28 February to 6 March
- Holiday.date2012
- 20 to 26 February
- Holiday.date2013
- 11 March to 17 March
- Holiday.date2014
- 24 February to 2 March
- Holiday.date2015
- 16 February to 22 February
- Holiday.date2016
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- Sunday of Forgiveness
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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.
The date of Maslenitsa changes every year, depending on the date of the celebration of Easter. It corresponds to the Western Christian Carnival, except that Orthodox Lent begins on a Monday instead of a Wednesday, and the Orthodox date of Easter can differ greatly from the Western Christian date.