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Easter tarditions in Russia. |
Easter, also called Pascha, is the most important religious feast in the Christian world. For russian people, it’s one of the most favorite religious holidays and it is celebrated according to the rituals laid down by the Eastern Orthodox Church. In Russian Orthodox Church Easter services last all Saturday night. Russian people gather in the church or cathedral on Saturday evening and participate in an Easter vigil commemorating the buried Christ. They go to church with Easter cakes and Easter eggs. These are two essential symbols of russian Easter. Russian wives, ukrainian women, belarus girls bake Easter cakes on the eve of Easter Sunday. There are two kind of Easter cakes in Russia – paskha- Easter dessert of pot cheese mixed with sugar, butter, and raisins, and Kulich – sweet Easter cakes. Modern russian ladies and ukraine ladies add different ingredients into Kulich in order to make their Easter cake the most delicious and different. They put raisins, candied fruits, nuts, citrons and rind of lemons or oranges into pastry.
Some ladies from russian keep the recipe of their Easter cakes in secret in order to fascinate their guests. Another important tradition of russian Easter is eggs painting. On Easter Sunday russian people exchange their Easter cakes and Easter eggs with each other in order to greet with this holly Sunday.
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