Easter in Russia

Easter in Russia

In our country Easter- is one of the most popular holidays. It's a day of happiness, time for union of all faithful people in Russia.

Easter- is a very old holiday with old traditions. Usually orthodox people make Easter cakes, curd cakes that are called «Pasha» and colour eggs.

Easter cake It`s a round cake with raisins, nuts or candied fruits and usually with marzipan decorations. Nowadays we can buy it in a store.

Pasha This dish is made of curd in a form of pyramid. Orthodox people can cook pasha only once a year.

Eggs You can paint eggs in red colour with onion peels or paint them in different colours. After that you can decorate eggs with labels, paints or something else- you should make it with love only!

You can give an egg to somebody as a gift and say: «Christ is risen!», and answer will be: «Truly. He has risen!». It's also an old tradition.

Before the October revolution people in Russia sent Easter postcards to each other. They were really kind and nice!

Easter in Russia Vlasenco Eugene lyceum №329 10«A» form 22.04.2011