February 25 from 12.00 to 18.00
What will happen: Family Day - a whole day full of workshops, lectures and games for the whole family
Things to do: On Saturday, in Space at Flacon, kids will learn to make scarecrows under the guidance of designers, pillow fight and tug-of-war. From the Shrovetide program, this seems to be all - there will also be modeling from plasticine, weaving braids, soap making (where without it), cartoons and astrologer's legends about the stars. Adults at this time can listen to lectures on psychology and make aromatic jewelry. In general, Family Day - only without pancakes and stuffed animals - will be held at Flacon every Saturday. You can buy a day ticket right on the spot.
What to eat: The Milk cafe, located just in Space, has a special pancake menu since Monday, which includes pancakes with jam, cottage cheese and vegetarian options.
What to eat: All week on the menu of the Shardama restaurant - pancakes with homemade blueberry jam, honey and sour cream, pancake bags with Norwegian herring salad, buckwheat pancake rolls with salmon and wheat pancakes with salmon.
Arrow
February 26 from 14.00 to 17.00
What will happen: Winter picnic.
Things to do: There will be a Maslenitsa barbecue in the courtyard of Strelka on Sunday - the chefs of the Strelka bar Nathan Dallimore and Natalie Horsting are going to grill hot dogs with pork and lamb sausages and caramelized onions on the barbecue, everyone can make themselves a kebab of fruit there and marshmallows, plus pancakes, hot soup and sweet potato falafel on the picnic. Bonfires will be lit in iron barrels in the courtyard, but those who come to Strelka right after the White Circle campaign will be especially lucky: everyone who has white ribbons will receive hot tea and special attention.
What to eat: Everything that will be at the picnic - all meals and drinks - 100 rubles.
Sokolniki Park"
February 25 and 26 from 11.00 to 22.00
What will happen: Classical Shrovetide with buffoons, stilts and folk music, to which were added a disco, handmade stuffed animals and a city of snow.
What to do: On Friday and Saturday sacks of old things can be brought to the Berezka stage, made into a stuffed animal, and in exchange for a new green T-shirt with the logo of the Moroz City festival. And on Sunday - take part in the parade of homemade scarecrows, listen to performances by the Oberigi ensemble and the Balagan Limited group, play rounders, pull a rope and walk on stilts. After that, at 18.00, in Sokolniki they promise a fire show, the burning of the main effigy and a disco on Fontannaya Square, however, only until 20.00. In addition, the snow city will continue to operate throughout the weekend in the park, which still has a prison, a lighthouse, a cinema and many more interesting objects. The entrance is free.
What to eat: Sokolniki will have 12 open-air pancake shops - both from the administration and from restaurants like Violet. In addition, you can always find tents with cheap donuts and barbecue pavilions there.
Gorky ParkFebruary 24 from 14.00 to 21.00, 25 and 26 - from 12.00
What will happen: The main venue for the Maslenitsa celebration in Moscow.
What to do: In Gorky Park this weekend the program is the most intense in the city: apart from the usual accordion players, buffoons on stilts and the Golubka and Charushka ensembles, there will be master classes on baking pancakes, weaving dolls and amulets, and even lessons in blacksmithing. In front of the Musical Stage, there should be grounds for children's contests and quizzes, and nearby - a pavilion of the AiF newspaper, where children for some reason will be taught how to make clay and plasticine toys. All three days in the park there will be performances like "Luntik" and "Masha and the Bear", ice cakes will be distributed on a hill near the central entrance, and on the embankment of the Moskva River there will be an "Old Russian Settlement" - an imitation of a village square with the Museum of Folk Life, where you can look at churns, spinning wheels, old candy wrappers and baby cradles. On Sunday, at 19.00, a teleconference with London will take place in the park - Maslenitsa is also celebrated quite actively on Trafalgar Square. It will end with a light show and a burning ceremony for the 11-meter Firebird installation.
What to eat: On Leninskaya and Fontannaya squares there will be pancake rows (with pancakes "according to the most unusual recipes"), but most importantly - the farm rows of the LavkaLavka project, with pies, pancakes, broth and live geese, and an exit cafe "Gifts of Nature", in where you can eat baked potatoes, hot dogs and cranberry-lingonberry punch. And in the "Starorussky settlement" there will be a real tavern - with sour cabbage soup, pike cutlets and mead.
is already close. It lasts a whole week. , as expected, in Monday. And it will end as usual Sunday 26 February... The holiday has many traditions and customs. One of the long-standing traditions is considered burning an effigy on Shrovetide. When and why to burn a scarecrow at Maslenitsa in 2017.
First, let's say when you need to make a scarecrow. Usually the stuffed animal was made on the first day of Maslenitsa week. It will be February 20, 2017 - Maslenitsa meeting.
Our ancestors used straw to make a stuffed animal. To do this, they specially left the last bunch after harvesting from the fall. Dressed up a scarecrow in old unnecessary things. The faces were usually not portrayed. That is, the scarecrow was faceless. Nowadays it is much easier to make a stuffed animal. They knock two sticks together with a cross and clothe them in torn clothes.
The scarecrow is supposed to be burned on the last day of Maslenitsa. It will be February 26, 2017 - Forgiveness Sunday.
Why do you need to commit to burn a scarecrow at Maslenitsa in 2017? For a long time, people believed that the ritual of burning a scarecrow on Shrovetide could save them from various troubles that had previously accompanied them. In addition, old things and clothes are thrown into the fire along with the scarecrow. It is believed that this is how negative energy gets rid of.
In addition, our ancestors considered the burning of an effigy to be a kind of sacrifice ritual. In response, they hoped that higher powers would send them a good harvest in the coming year. Therefore, they scattered the ashes left after the burning of the effigy over the fields.
The custom of burning an effigy on Shrovetide has survived to this day. However, in our time, people give this ritual a slightly different meaning. Burning a scarecrow, people say goodbye to winter and welcome spring. They rejoice at the imminent approach of warmth and the clear sun.
Happy Shrovetide! Love, warmth, hope!
In order to eat pancakes, burn a scarecrow and get into a festive fight, you don't have to go to the center. The most fun on one of the most popular holidays takes place on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg ..
Parkovy
Central Park of Culture and Leisure (st.Michurina, 230)
It is in the Central Park of Culture and Leisure that the main Maslenitsa festivities will take place. For this, more cars will even be launched on tram routes, so that everyone can easily get there.
What is the price: is free.
What's in store for: a festive concert with the participation of the best bands of the city; Russian folk amusements: fight with sacks, ring throw, vertical pole, metal hockey, jumping in sacks; Maslenitsa fair; the work of interactive oilseed zones; thematic photo zones; competitive program; burning of an effigy of Maslenitsa; city disco; exhibition of handicrafts and stuffed animals; entertainment program at the skating rink; the capture of the snow fortress.
Uralmash and Elmash
Family recreation park "Elmashevsky" (st. Old Bolsheviks, 22)
What is the price: is free.
What's in store for: concert program; games; attractions; contests; creative workshops; horseback riding; pancake fair; burning of an effigy of Maslenitsa.
The site near the Central Committee "Ordzhonikidzevsky" (Boulevard Culture, 3)
What is the price: is free.
What's in store for: folk games; pancakes; burning of an effigy of Maslenitsa; fair of handicrafts.
Park "Victory Park" (st. Republican, 1a)
What is the price: is free.
What's in store for: songs; dancing; folk carnival festivities; contests; horseback riding; kebab and pancakes; burning effigy.
Site near the Sadovy Culture and Leisure Center (Verstovaya st., 14)
What is the price: is free.
What's in store for: burning of an effigy of Maslenitsa; fair; horseback riding; concert program; games; attractions.
Square in front of the cinema "Znamya" (st. Kirovgradskaya, 11)
What is the price: is free.
What's in store for: festivities with popcorn tasting; draws and gifts from the cinema; burning a stuffed movie hero. The role of "Maslenitsa" will be played by the most unloved movie characters by the townspeople, which they will define themselves. Candidates for oil burning include Clown Pennywise, Jack Sparrow, Cruella De Vil, Creek and Darth Vader.
Sorting
Park "Taganskaya Sloboda", st. Bebel, 111
What is the price: is free.
What's in store for: multinational festivities; Cossack farm, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Mari, Chuvash and other farmsteads; tasting of national dishes; competitions of accordionists and dancers; heroic fun and power extreme; Maslenitsa master classes; horseback riding, camel, llama and donkey riding.
Zarechny
SEC "Carnival", st. Khalturina, 55
What is the price: is free.
What's in store for: pancake eating contest; oil photo zone.
Centre
Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg (Karl Liebknecht st., 26)
What is the price: from 200 to 350 rubles
What's in store for: pancakes; "Riding" on the Pancake week train; Games for children; crafts; meeting with the Empress Maslenitsa; storm of the snow town.Photo: website
On the square near the building of the Central Committee for Culture and Research "Verkh-Isetsky" (Subbotnikov Square, 1)
What is the price: is free.
What's in store for: funny buffoons; folk amusements, games and contests; treating with sweets; pancakes; burning Shrovetide.
Shrovetide is a long-awaited holiday for many. Many traditions are observed during the celebration of Maslenitsa week, and the burning of a scarecrow is considered the most spectacular of them.
Shrovetide is the farewell to winter, which is why the people have adopted the custom of making a scarecrow. It personifies the cold season, which comes the time to drive away. The date of the celebration of Maslenitsa is tied to Easter, so it is not difficult to calculate it. This holiday takes place a week before Lent, and in 2018 Maslenitsa week is early: from 12 to 18 February.
Scarecrow burning tradition
The traditional rite of burning a scarecrow came to us from the times of paganism. Our ancestors associated winter with the Goddess Mara, the mistress of the cold. They made a stuffed animal from straw and dressed in old clothes, then carried them along the streets with merry songs. On the last day of Maslenitsa week, when the festivities are over, the scarecrow is burned. It was customary to sprinkle the fields with the ashes from the fire on which the scarecrow burned down. People believed that Mara was reborn through a new crop. This rite symbolizes death at the stake and rebirth through struggle, when the grain makes its way through the thickness of the earth to the long-awaited light.