Burning dolls and old man’s funeral: old Maslenitsa traditions

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On the last day of Maslenitsa week, also known as Tselovalnik, people went to a bathhouse and a cemetery, asked for forgiveness and forgave, and also burned an effigy of Maslenitsa.



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