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