{"id":348,"date":"2016-05-20T17:38:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gobelins-tapestry.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2016-03-21T20:42:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:42:59","slug":"counted-cross-stitch-kit-maslenitsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gobelins-tapestry.com\/blog\/counted-cross-stitch-kit-maslenitsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Counted Cross Stitch Kit – Maslenitsa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sigla<\/a>Dear members of our cross stitch community, in this article we present you another kit designed by us, it’s name is\u00a0Maslenitsa<\/em> <\/a>and was designed from a painting of\u00a0Peter Nicolaevick.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Russian name of\u00a0Peter Nicolaevick\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0 Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>he was a Georgian prince with inclinations for painting, that lived in the XIX-th century, between 1837 and 1892.<\/p>\n

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The leitmotif of this design is\u00a0Maslenitsa,<\/em> an ancient Russian Holiday that celebrates the imminent ending of winter. Maslenitsa is also called the Winter Holiday,\u00a0<\/em>a time when friends and relatives gather together. Traditionally the feasts leftovers are thrown into fire, and it’s ash is buried under the snow, symbolizing the fertilization of crops.<\/p>\n

In soviet period,\u00a0Maslenitsa,\u00a0<\/em>like all religious celebrations, was officially forbidden, but\u00a0continued to be celebrated individually, people sharing food with other families. With Perestroika’s debut, Maslenitsa restarted to be celebrated officially, but many say that it doesn’t have the same emotional and social impact.<\/p>\n

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