Maslenitsa
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Maslenitsa, also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its r
Maslenitsa, Boris Kustodiev, 1919 (Isaak Brodsky Museum, St. Petersburg)
Burning of the Maslenitsa effigy, during the Celebration of Forgiveness Sunday in Belgorod, February 21, 2015
A girl wearing a traditional Russian kokoshnik hat for Maslenitsa in Slovenia
Vasily Surikov. Взятие снежного городка Taking a Snow Town, 1891.
Mardi Gras
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Mardi Gras, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is the final day of Carnival; it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", referring to it
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Mardi Gras in Dakar, Senegal
Mardi Gras in Marseille, France
Mardi Gras in Binche, Belgium