Forgiveness Sunday.

It had different names. They also called him the tselovalnik, and the wires. The party ends, on the ice slides fires are lit, to melt the ice, to destroy the cold. Forgiveness is asked, compassionate works do. Everyone begs each other for forgiveness, they bow to their feet, and in response they hear: “God will forgive, and I forgive.” The Shrove Carnival was burnt. The ashes left by the “winter hostess” were scattered over the fields as a sign of the future harvest.
People’s signs for this day:
Frosty day – spring will be early and warm, and in the summer there will be no rain.
No snow on February 18 – wait for a drought in the summer.
If the frost hits, a sign to the fact that, most likely, the summer will be sultry.
If Agafia is warm, then winter has already ended – you can expect spring.

Gorki on the Champ de Mars, photo 1895.

“Maslenitsa”, B.M. Kustodiev. 1919 year.

Artist E. Kudryashova.