Shrove Tuesday in St. Petersburg in 2015 to celebrate folk festivals

Shrove Tuesday in St. Petersburg in 2015 to celebrate folk festivals to be held in city parks. Pancake week this year lasts from 16 to 22 February. Learn more about what awaits St. Petersburg these days, in the material below.

Shrove Tuesday in St. Petersburg in 2015 will celebrate folk festivals in urban parks. Pancake week starts on Monday, 16.02.2015 year. The first day of the festival, which is called the "meeting" can be found in the park named after Grandma in the Nevsky district. There's residents and visitors expect carousel rides, sledding and ice skating, concerts, circus performances, as well as pancakes and tea from a samovar. The celebratory program will last until 22:00 Moscow time.
Shrovetide in 2015 in St. Petersburg will celebrate in Central Park on Elagin Island 21 and 22 February. There will be an international festival "Schumi, Mardi Gras!". The park has eight stages will be performing folk groups from different countries and cities, the park will be lit bonfires Pancake, hold contests. According to the organizers of the festival, on Shrove Tuesday in 2015 entrance for those who come dressed in national costume, will be free.

Carnival holiday will bypass and the Russian Museum. He will arrange festivities 22 February 2015 in the Summer Garden, where the day can take part in competitions, listen to live music, take pictures with the students of Leningrad Zoo, and children will be able to paint balloons, make a doll or a mask.
To join the national and cheerful holiday will be on the square in front of the theater festival "Baltic house" 22/02/2015 years where at 15:00 Moscow time to start festivities called "Guly, wide Pancake!".
Pancake Day will be celebrated on the weekends and in the suburbs of St. Petersburg. In Peterhof Alexandria Park festivities will begin at 13:00 Moscow time on 21 February 2015, from where visitors can ride a horse, look at the pageant and blacksmith work. Eat pancakes will also be in the Pavlovsk Park in Pushkin.
When celebrated Mardi Gras in 2015 - the answer is already known. Holiday begins Feb. 16. It will last for a week, until February 22. Another name Maslenitsa - Cheese Week, because all week preparing for the Orthodox Lent, which begins immediately after the Shrovetide. Last Sunday - is Forgiveness Sunday, when all ask each other for forgiveness.
Carnival, which is celebrated in 2015 from 16 to 22 February, always celebrated with a big way. One of the traditions of Shrovetide - eating pancakes. In this festive week in the Orthodox do not eat meat, but you can still eat fish, eggs, dairy products. According to legend, the brighter and more interesting will be lived pancake week, the more successful and richer will be the year.
Pancake Day in 2015, as before, will burn the effigy of the carnival, which makes straw and wear on the first day holiday week. Scarecrow, according to tradition, is placed in a prominent place on the last day it burned. During Shrovetide relatives go to each other's homes, and town squares fairs, fights, people riding in a sleigh.