Calendar-ritual excursions, entertainment

Tour operator "Navigator Ukraine" invites everyone to the Maslenitsa festival, which will be held on the territory of the historical and archaeological museum-reserve "Verkhny Saltov"!

It is impossible to imagine the end of winter without the traditional Pancake week, for which every real Ukrainian manages to eat so many delicious pancakes that it’s enough for the whole year. Do you know that Maslenitsa is one of the oldest Slavic holidays, because it dates back to pre-Christian times, during the period of worship of pagan gods?

How will they meet Maslenitsa in one of the most beautiful, paradisiacal places of Slobozhanshchina - in Kovalevsky's estate, in Skovorodinovke? We are sure that it will not be boring! Are we going to Skovorodinovka?

Summer customs and rites of Ukrainians were, of course, associated primarily with concerns about the harvest. The oldest and most emotional holiday is the holiday of Ivan Kupala. Kupala Fire and Water had a healing, purifying, magical power.

Maslenitsa is an ancient Slav festival, which we got from the pagan ancestors. Pancake week is a mischievous and cheerful farewell to the winter and a meeting of spring carrying a revival in nature and solar heat.

On the spring holidays it was customary to ride horses, go to visit, have fun, cook dumplings and, of course, pancakes, which symbolized the sun, the sun's warmth and power.

Shrovetide is a farewell to winter and a solemn meeting of a beautiful woman - spring. Her celebration among the Gentiles was associated with the glorification of the Sun God Yarila, and after the adoption of Christianity, she became the last stage of preparation for Lent.

The traditions and customs of Ukraine on Shrovetide have come to us from the depths of centuries. Our ancestors celebrated this holiday in the springtime, when nature woke up from a winter dream. The meeting of spring was accompanied by fun festivities, baking of golden pancakes.