A child watching a little Maslenitsa dummy burn at the Maslenitsa Pancake Week celebrations at the Yusupovsky Garden in St. Petersburg.17.03.2013#1415982
Burning of a Maslenitsa dummy at the Maslenitsa Pancake Week celebrations at the Yusupovsky Garden in St. Petersburg.17.03.2013#1415981
A participant of a fist-fighting tournament, an Old Russian tradition, at the Maslenitsa Pancake Week celebrations at the Yusupovsky Garden in St. Petersburg.17.03.2013#1415980
Participants in a "wall on wall" fist fighting at the Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) celebrations in St.Petersburg's Yusupov Garden.17.03.2013#1415979
Participants in an old Russian amusement - "wall on wall" fist fightintg at the Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) celebrations in St.Petersburg's Yusupov Garden.17.03.2013#1415978
Participants in an old Russian amusement - pulling off a cap from a man rotating a sack - at the Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) celebrations in St.Petersburg's Yusupov Garden.17.03.2013#1415977
Maslenitsa effigy burning celebrates the end of winter in the town center of Suzdal, Vladimir Region.17.03.2013#1415790
Bliny, a Russian samovar and sushki (bagel crackers) at the fair during Maslenitsa celebrations in Tomsk.17.03.2013#1415283
A woman in folk costume sells whistles at the fair during Maslenitsa celebrations in Tomsk.17.03.2013#1415282
Chingis Akatayev, deputy governor of Tomsk Region for social policy, left, makes bliny during Maslenitsa celebrations in Tomsk.17.03.2013#1415281
Chingis Akatayev, deputy governor of Tomsk Region for social policy, left, makes bliny during Maslenitsa celebrations in Tomsk.17.03.2013#1415280
A girl participates in a knitted bliny flipping contest. Popular entertainments during Maslenitsa celebrations in Yaroslavl.17.03.2013#1415601
A mother feeds her child a blin at a folk festival during Maslenitsa celebrations in Yaroslavl.17.03.2013#1415571
Maslenitsa effigy burning on the grounds of the wooden architecture museum in Suzdal, Vladimir Region celebrates the end of winter.16.03.2013#1415314
Maslenitsa effigy burning on the grounds of the wooden architecture museum in Suzdal, Vladimir Region celebrates the end of winter.16.03.2013#1415207
Girls drink tea at Maslenitsa celebrations on the grounds of the wooden architecture museum in Suzdal, Vladimir Region.16.03.2013#1415312
A Suzdal resident climbs a wooder pole laden with gifts during Maslenitsa celebrations.16.03.2013#1414794
Participants of the Bakshevskaya Maslenitsa (Egg-Sunday) festival near Moscow storming a snow fortress. This year the festival was held in Ramensky District, Moscow Region.01.03.2009#377007
Theatrical performance during the Farewell to the Russian Winter festival in the Izmailovo Park of Culture and Leisure in Moscow. Fairy tale characters adorning a park walkway.01.03.1987#8353315
Theatrical performance during the Farewell to the Russian Winter festival in the Izmailovo Park of Culture and Leisure in Moscow. At the entrance to the park, visitors are greeted by three epic heroes, bogatyrs.01.03.1987#8353295
Participants and guest of the traditional folk festival of Seeing Russian Winter Off in Zhemchuzhina vacation center in the Moscow Region.09.03.1977#6483702
