Historically one very old Russian holiday that remained virtually unchanged is called “Maslenica”. The main purpose of this holiday/ritual is to say goodbye to winter, and welcome long awaited spring. This is considered a people’s holiday that’s why large groups of folks gather up and have a good time, they burn up a scarecrow which supposed to represent winter, they make and eat a lot of pancakes and as we see in this case they decided to do a traditional wall on wall “fight” but it’s all in good fun… Here is the video, as well as a big gallery of images from ”Maslenica” held in Moscow and Yekaterinburg…
pictures by Aleksandr M.
pictures by Denis Borisov-ris
via Aleksandr M. & Denis Borisov-ris at photopoligon.com
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 pm
all these people are russian? theres some guys with the german military gear including head covers…whats with that?