Show all images on one page	#001858 Title: Pan-cake week/Maslenitsa Artist: Molodkin Nickolay Size: 24.5x18.5x5 Size (inches): 9.5x7.25x1.75 Price : $950 SOLD!

Nikolay Molodkin of Mstera is the artist who painted this colorful box. Here the artist has chosen to depict one of the ancient Russian feasts, which is called "Maslenitsa" or "Pancake-week". This feast is arranged to send off the cold winter and welcome the beginning of warm spring. It usually takes place the week before the Lenten fast. In ancient times Maslenitsa included different magic and religious rites that afterwards transformed into traditional folk customs, such as burning of a woman of straw that embodies the winter, baking of sacrificial bread