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Thursday 5 April 2007


Just outside St Petersburg, this is the festival celebrating the end of long winter and beginning of its surrender to glorious spring at last. There are pantomimes of a spellbound young lady Spring being set free, a bonfire, pre-Christian foods such as pancakes and eggs, and plenty of good traditional Russian music and dancing.




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