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A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on March 5, 2006 and March 2, 2008.

A fact from Maslenitsa appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 February 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the traditional Russian carnival of Maslenitsa lasts for a week and culminates in the burning of a straw effigy representing winter and all the left-over blintzes?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/February.

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When does Maslenitsa / Pancake Week start ?[edit]

Crepes not pancake When does Maslenitsa / Pancake Week start ? Same day as Fat Thursday in Poland ? Any relations ? It would help if dates of Maslenitsa in 2006 and the following few years are included in the article. -- PFHLai 13:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

~~BTW, is it the same day as Mărţişor and Martenitsa ? -- PFHLai 21:22, 1 March 2006 (UTC)~~ Never mind. -- PFHLai 15:21, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the 2006 dates I found at a website listed in the external links section. Someone add the future dates, please ? Don't want to miss this next year. Thanks. --PFHLai 15:21, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does anybody have the 2008 dates yet??? Smallbones 17:43, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2 to 8 march, seventh week before Orthodox Easter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.195.1.234 (talk) 18:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

now I am confused. Easter is on Apirl 27. 42 days before that is March 16. The week before the 40 day fast. Should it not be celebrated March 9 to 15 anyway any day is a good day to celebrate Maslinista... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.233.227.71 (talk) 10:43, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orthodox Easter usually (but not always) is on a different date then for Catholics and Protestants. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.7.244.172 (talk) 20:28, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Better with butter[edit]

Shouldn't this really be "butter week"? Masla = butter, after all. -HiFiGuy 00:12, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

During the Soviet times the Maslenitsa as all the other religious holidays were suppressed. After the Perestroika the celebrations resumed, although they are seemed by some as artificial restoration of a dead tradition.

This is not true. It has always been one of the favorite winter holidays we selebrated in the 70's and 80s.

This holiday featured prominately io the film the Siberian Barber. I use it as a good topic for English Lessons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.233.227.71 (talk) 10:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"During the Soviet times the Maslenitsa as all the other religious holidays were suppressed"- I'm Russian and lived in Russia during the Soviet times. Maslenitsa was not suppressed at all but always celebrated as a folk holiday. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zhannakov (talk • contribs) 14:50, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Religious holiday?[edit]

In theory Maslenitsa is derived from pagan traditions, in practice it is caused by Christian traditions, but it is not a religious holiday. It has no religious meaning, and Russian Orthodox priests generally frown at it. Along with Ivan Kupala Day, Maslenitsa is example of Russian national non-religious tradition. And of course nobody ever felt need to suppress it. — Hellerick (talk) 08:48, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So should Cheesefare week be separated from this? The article is a mishmash. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 20:06, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Traditions[edit]

"Maslenitsa also includes masquerades" - actually in Russia Maslenitsa not include masquerades. --Inngrid (talk) 18:58, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. There was no citation given for this, so I went ahead and removed the two references to masquerades. 98.212.131.125 (talk) 01:20, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why the inverted commas around [to]"fertilise the crops" ? Ashes are an excellent soil fertiliser, better still when carried and soaked into the earth with the snow/melt-water. So I don't think the tradition is merely symbolic as implied by the quotation marks? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.99.30.239 (talk) 14:47, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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