Our team of Vladivostok English News made a bite of Russian traditional pancakes.

This week Russians say goodbye to winter by frying lots of pancakes, visiting relatives and 

burning a straw effigy of winter. Enjoy this time with us - and read our step-by-step guide to 

follow these traditions.

Last week Russia celebrated Maslenitsa, or pancake week, which is followed by Great Lent (40 

days of fasting) starting on March 11. For many in the country it was the last chance to eat 

red-blooded meat, seafood with backbones, and dairy products, as the Orthodox Church dictates.

So, as you can imagine, believers and non-believers alike wasted no time in using the holiday 

as an excuse to gorge themselves on pancakes, or bliny. The collective sizzle of batter 

hitting hot pans could be heard across the country.

Only your imagination can hold you back when choosing which toppings to slather over bliny. 

Anything goes, including jam, sickly sweet condensed milk, berries, stewed cabbage, smoked 

salmon, red and black caviar, minced meat...

One of the symbols of Maslenitsa is a straw doll, which is burned on the last day of the 

celebration, so some Russians decided to create their own dolls by draping Barbies in bliny to 

mimic national costumes.

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Team: Arthur O. Nwabufo, Ekaterina Gritsenko, Vladimir Biryukov

Place: L'écume des jours (Pena dnei) Cafe, Vladivostok, https://www.instagram.com/pena_cafe/

Camera: Apple Iphone X 

Date: 7th of March 2019

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