Pancake

[Кирилл Сызранский]

They are stored in the lives of peaceful
Dear old habits;
They Pancake Day fatty
Vodilis Russian pancakes.
AS Pushkin


Pancake in 2010 - from 8 to 14 February.

Pancake Day was celebrated throughout the week, starting with Sunday Zagovezni (small Pancake) up to farewell ( "Big Pancake"), the main festivities were on Thursday. Zagoviny in the bride's relatives went to visit the bridegroom, a girl, not published in this year's marriage, braided in Spit white ribbon. Shrovetide was considered a great holiday. Mistress to her all the washing, hang clean. In a month, emerging at the Pancake week, was associated complex will the weather and well-being of the community.

Celebrate Pancake Day - perhaps the most fun time of the year - starting from Monday. Every day had its own name: Monday - "meeting", Tuesday - "zaigryshi", Wednesday - "gourmand", Thursday - "orgy", "fracture", "wide Thursday", Friday - "Teschin togethers "Saturday -" zolovkiny gatherings, Sunday - "seeing", "forgiveness day».
Pancake waited for her carefully prepared: flooded for riding steep banks, building high ice and snow-capped mountains, castles, towns. It was considered essential to go before the last days, the Pancake Week in the bath, in order to wash off all the bad things that happened in the past year. Work in those days was prohibited.
Pancake ... Even now I still feel that word, I felt it in childhood: a bright spot, call - is it in me burning stove, bluish waves fumes in a rather hum soused folk, bumpy snow-covered road, already moist in the sun, from diving on her merry sleds, with cheerful horses in Rosanna, in the bells and bells, with a playful brute force of harmony. Or a child is left in my wonderful, unlike anything else in bright colors and gilding, that cheerfully called - "carnival"?
I. Shmelev "The Summer of the Lord"

Pancake, cheese week (before the spelling reform is also frequently SHROVETIDE) - a festive cycle preserved in Russia since pagan (pre-Christian) times . The ritual is connected with wires of winter and spring meeting. After the baptism of Rus Pancake celebrated in the last week before Lent, seven weeks before Easter. The main attributes are Shrovetide pancakes and folk festivals.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%...B8%D1%86%D0%B0