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Maslenitsa
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Maslenitsa. ViaggiareinRussia.com. Maslenitsa (Pancake week) is the only purely Russian Holiday that dates back to the pagan times. For seven days Moscow jingles with bells, sings with garmoshkas and glares with gaily-painted dresses. The people are letting the long-annoying winter out and the long-awaited spring in. The counters in the Maslenitsa town are groaning with various dainties. There are the paunchy samovars with mellow tea, bunches of sweet-scented barankas, nuts and honey pies. But the essential elements, of course, are pancakes (blini). On the last day of the Great Maslenitsa the feasting and drinking ends up by burning down the scarecrow symbolizing winter thus saying goodbye to winter till the next year.


Day 1
Tuesday

March 10. "The LAVISH GLUTTONOUS DAY"
Transfer from the airport to the Hotel. Accommodation (5-10 minutes walk to Maslenitsa town).
*Welcome to the Maslenitsa town (Vasilievsky Spusk) with different attractions, trade of pancakes and a fair of national craft products. Clowns, public criers, buffoon-jokers & other fancy dressed actors meet the guest.
17:00 - 21:50 Pancake's show
22:00 Fireworks show!

Day 2
Wednesday

March 11. "THE MOTHER-IN-LAW EVENING"
Breakfast.
City Tour round the most beautiful places of Moscow
- the Cathedral of St.Basil the Blessed, the Tverskaya street the most animated and saucy, the former headquarters of the KGB, University located in Lenin's Hills considered to be the highest point of the city, Russian White House, Kutuzov street and the Victory Park with its fountains and churches.
*Lunch at the local restaurant.
Excursion to the Moscow Kremlin & Kremlin Cathedrals including Armory Chamber.
The Kremlin has always been perceived as a symbol of power & might of the Russian land. Each era of Russian history left its architectural mark on the Kremlin. Within the Kremlin walls there are many architectural monuments, churches, cathedrals, museums, etc.
Return to the Hotel.
*Welcome to the Maslenitsa town (Vasilievsky Spusk) - with different attractions, trade of pancakes and a fair of national craft products. Clowns, public criers, buffoon-jokers & other fancy dressed actors meet the guest.
18:00-21:00 - Evening concert.

Day 3
Thursday

March 12. "THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW PARTIES"
Breakfast.
Excursion to the Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk)
- the Trinity Monastery of St.Sergius the center of Russian Orthodoxy with its Theological Academy and Seminary. You will have a chance to have a look at Russian church service, listen to the singing. Visit to the museum of Russian icon painting and Doll museum (Sergiev-Posad is native for Matreshka-doll). The trade of real Russian pancakes and a fair of national craft products will also take place!
Lunch at the local restaurant (Zagorsk).
Return to the Hotel.

*Welcome to the Maslenitsa town (Vasilievsky Spusk) -with different attractions, trade of pancakes and a fair of national craft products. Clowns, public criers, buffoon-jokers & other fancy dressed actors meet the guest.
14:00-19:00 - The children program. Children & family competitions.
19:00-21:00 - The concert of the Russian folklore groups.

Day 4
Friday

March 13. "THE FORGIVENESS SUNDAY" On the last day of Maslenitsa everybody used to ask each other for forgiveness. The young married couples made visits to their relatives, presented gifts to their matchmakers, parents and friends, who made presents at the wedding.
Breakfast.
Visit to Estate Museum Kolomenskoe
to take part in the festivities and a traditional troika ride. A Great Princes' mansion in the XIV - XVII century. It is the unique art, historical, architectural and nature - landscape museum-reserve, situated in the South region of Moscow. You will have a chance to see traditional attractions devoted to Maslenitsa celebration. The trade of real Russian pancakes and a fair of national craft products will also take place.
* Lunch at the local restaurant.
16:00 Welcome to Triumpalnaya Square - to start the procession to the Vassilievsky spusk headed by an orchestra, an accordionist company, and buffoons. Everybody ask one another for forgiveness in order to redeem themselves from their sins before the Great Lent. They bow to one another and say, "God will forgive you". Maslenitsa is over and so is the winter giving way to the spring.
17.00 - 18:00 - The "Russian song" concert.
21:30 - Burning of the Maslenitsa scarecrow. The closing ceremony.
21:40 - 22:00 - Continuation of the "Russian Songs" concert. Fireworks!!!
Return to the Hotel.

Day 5

March 14.
Breakfast.
Departure transfer to the Airport.

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