Russian Maslenitsa is a tribute to paganism, an echo of those times when the New Year was celebrated in the spring. Now its celebration fits into the Orthodox calendar and precedes the beginning of Lent. This year, Shrovetide Week (March 11-17) promises to set an unusual record.
From time immemorial, the Russian people ate themselves to the gills on Maslenitsa days - without measure, without looking back, with the aim that the whole next year would be just as satisfying. The Maslenitsa menu is again traditional: pancakes with caviar, red and white fish, mushrooms and so on. But there are also innovations. In Moscow, the Daria company gathered not only to feed, but also to surprise the audience. On March 14, on the gluttonous day of Maslenitsa, they promise to please 5 thousand people at once with one pancake. You can taste it and thus join the Guinness Book of Records on Vasilyevsky Spusk. The exclusive pancake will reach as much as 14 meters in diameter, and the area of the giant will be 150 square pancakes. Oh, damn it, they give it!
Inga Zemzare.