Let’s Celebrate Maslenitsa Lunch Together

If you are planning to celebrate Maslenitsa this year, please come and join us on the Asian side.

In Slavic mythology, Maslenitsa is a celebration of the imminent end of the winter. It is a celebration of the end of winter chills and the start of Spring, of warmth, of hope, of growth . This is also a religious and folk holiday that is celebrated during the last week before Великий пост (Great Lent), seventh week before Paska (Easter) .Its roots are coming from both in pagan and Christian traditions .

Eastern Slavic traditional festival of масленица , the Sun Festival The word масленица comes from the noun масло (butter). Масленичная неделя (Maslenitsa week) is the week to be spent eating lots and lots of fattening foods and participating in all kinds of merriment. Once the week is up, Lent begins, with its stringent diet and time for sober reflections. In Russian language there is a saying “Не всё коту масленица, будет и Великий Пост” (literally: it’s not always a Maslenitsa week for a cat; Great Lent will come soon. Less literally, it means “every day is not a Sunday”).
In Russian language there is a good saying первый блин комом (first pancake comes out a blob) which they cheerfully apply to any first-time endeavor that doesn’t go just right.

We are looking forward to seeing you!