Patriarch Macarius of Antioch and his son Archdeacon Pavel of Aleppo, who visited Russia in the 17th century, described it this way: folk customs on Easter week:
"On all days of this week, boys and small children in all parishes from with great joy They ring the bells continuously day and night, which is great fun and pleasure for them. Let it be known to you, reader, that Easter for them continues until Ascension Thursday.
Everyone, meeting friends and acquaintances here, gives them a red egg and kisses them on the mouth, saying: “Christ is risen,” just as they kiss when meeting someone who has returned from a trip.
Wine shops and drinking houses from the very beginning of Lent until New Sunday (Fomin) remained sealed; their owners are in no way allowed to open their establishments during Holy Week, because during this week this is monitored much more strictly than during Great Lent. Likewise, throughout the year, drinking houses usually remain closed from Sunday eve to Monday morning, and the same is done during major holidays.
This week, the archers scoured the city like fire, and if they found a drunk somewhere making a mess, they dragged him to the order and put him under arrest for several days, after inflicting many blows; We saw this all the time."
These customs were also reflected in the Easter card of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For the first time, artistic Easter postcards with spring watercolors by Nikolai Karazin were published by the Community of St. Eugenia in 1898. The trustee of the "Community of St. Eugenie" was Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Oldenburg (1845-1928), honorary member Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society.
IN pre-revolutionary years Postcards from the original works of famous artists Boris Kustodiev, Nikolai Pimonenko, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Vladimir Lebedev, Mikhail Germashev and others were produced in large quantities.
Easter cards based on drawings by Mikhail Germashev
At the beginning of the 20th century, the artist Mikhail Markianovich Germashev (Bubelo) was very popular among the Russian public of different classes. He actively collaborated with postcard publishers who issued a large number of open letters with reproductions of his paintings. He specially painted some of them for postcards, intensifying the colors, bringing them closer to popular prints. In 1904-14. Mikhail Markianovich worked closely with the Riga publishing house of art postcards Lenz & Rudolff-Riga. M. Germashev also illustrated children's books.
All-night vigil.
After Matins.
Returning from Matins.
Mikhail Markianovich Germashev (Bubello) (1867-1930)
Evening before Easter.
Mikhail Markianovich Germashev (Bubello) (1867-1930). 1904
Preparation for Easter.
MM. Germashev. Ed. Lenz and Rudolf, Riga
Easter night in the Moscow Kremlin.
Mikhail Markianovich Germashev (Bubello) (1867-1930)
The post is over.
MM. Germashev. Ed. Verlag Lenz & Rudolf
For Easter.
Mikhail Markianovich Germashev (Bubello) (1867-1930)
Easter ringing.
Mikhail Markianovich Germashev (Bubello) (1867-1930)
Folk holiday on Easter.
Mikhail Markianovich Germashev (Bubello) (1867-1930). Between 1904 and 1914
Publishing house "Lenz and Rudolf" (Riga)
Easter. Morning in position.
MM. Germashev (Bubelo)
Easter cards based on drawings by Boris Zvorykin
Boris Vasilyevich Zvorykin (1872-1942) - Russian artist, graphic artist and ornamentalist. Since 1898, Boris Zvorykin illustrated and designed books for the best Russian publishing houses - I. N. Knebel, A. I. Mamontov, I. D. Sytin in Moscow, A. A. Levinson and A. F. Marx - in St. Petersburg at themes of Russian fairy tales, proverbs and sayings, types of monasteries, etc. A consistent supporter and creator of the “Russian style,” Zvorykin was highly appreciated by members of the imperial family and was involved in fulfilling orders from the Imperial Court - he is known to have executed menus for gala dinners in honor of French senators and deputies in Moscow (1910) and in honor of the arrival of the British trade mission to Russia (1912). In 1909-1912. the artist participated in the paintings cathedral Saint Equal-to-the-Apostles Alexander Nevsky in Simferopol and the Theodore Sovereign Cathedral in Tsarskoe Selo, earning the gratitude of the emperor. Boris Zvorykin was one of the most notable authors of Christmas and Easter greeting cards. cliparti.jimdo.com
Christ is Risen!
Christ is Risen!
Zvorykin B.V. 1910 Watercolor, ink, graphite pencil. 13x9.5.
Drawing for Easter card
Easter card based on a drawing by Boris Vasilyevich Zvorykin (1872-1942). 1900
Easter cards based on drawings by Fedot Sychkov
At the church on Easter
Sychkov F.V. Postcard
Christ is Risen! Easter.
Sychkov F.V.
Easter morning in the family.
F.V. Sychkov. Postcard
Games for Easter.
F.V. Sychkov
Easter game of heaps.
F.V. Sychkov. Between 1904-14 Postcard published by Richard (St. Petersburg)
In the game of heaps, you had to guess under which pile of sand the egg was hidden.
Game of cue balls.
F.V. Sychkov. Easter card
In the cue ball game, the loser was the one whose egg would burst first when tapped on the egg of the second player.
Elizaveta Boehm
One of the major masters of the Easter card genre was the artist Elizaveta Merkuryevna Boehm (1843-1914), a student of the outstanding Russian artist Ivan Kramskoy. She created more than three hundred watercolors and instantly recognizable black silhouettes depicting scenes from the life of village children, and was accurate in historical detail. The artist often accompanied the image with instructive paraphrases from famous Russian proverbs and sayings.
Spring is coming, full of miracles - Christ is Risen, Christ is Risen!
EAT. Boehm
Fedorka the hen and Egorka the rooster congratulate you on the holiday and wish you happiness.
EAT. Boehm. 6th edition, no. 141
An expensive egg on Christ's day.
EAT. Boehm
Eat to your heart's content, don't listen to anyone. That's what the holiday is for.
EAT. Boehm
I cooked it, baked it, not for Gritsky, for Peter.
Elizaveta Boehm
We'll work on weekdays - We'll go out on holidays.
EAT. Boehm
It's Christ's Sunday, everyone has fun!
EAT. Boehm
In a family, everyone gives to each other
A bright red egg.
And everyone says jubilantly,
Meeting in the morning red:
Christ is Risen, Christ is Risen!
We have received news from heaven!
EAT. Boehm
Christ is risen!
EAT. Boehm
Christ is risen!
EAT. Boehm
Dear custom on the Great Day.
EAT. Boehm
Easter cards with black silhouettes.
EAT. Boehm
Ivan Kramskoy wrote about Boehm’s black silhouettes: “And what perfection these silhouettes were! Even the expression on the faces of the little black ones could be seen in them.”
Easter cards based on drawings by Alexey Trankovsky
Presentation of sugar egg.
Trankovsky Alexey Ivanovich
Egg rolling.
Trankovsky Alexey Ivanovich (2nd half of the 19th century - beginning of the 20th century).
At the beginning of the 20th century, Trankovsky's paintings on historical and folk themes enjoyed great popularity in Russia. The artist was very attentive not only to the plot, but to the details. Therefore, many of him paintings published in various magazines and as illustrations for books. But he became more famous as the author of Russian pre-revolutionary postcards.
Easter cards based on drawings by Vasily Eshkichevich
Holy Thursday.
VC. Eshkicevic. Postcard from the St. Petersburg publishing house "Richar"
Easter.
VC. Eshkicevic
Easter.
VC. Eshkicevic
Easter.
VC. Eshkicevic
Unquenchable fire.
VC. Eshkicevic
Eshkichevich Vasily Konstantinovich (1877-...) is an undeservedly forgotten Russian artist. His paintings are known only from a few postcards that have survived to this day.
On April 21, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Armavir, the winners of the Easter drawing competition “Orthodox Easter” were awarded. Students of the Sunday school of the St. John the Theological Church Chaplygina Anna and Peter Kotov took top places at the level of the Novokubansk deanery and were awarded diplomas and memorable gifts from the hands of the ruling bishop. First place at the deanery level and second place at the diocesan level was taken by the collective work of students from the Sunday school of the St. John the Theological Church in Novokubansk. The painting, made under the guidance of teacher Daria Petrovna Maistruk, was made using the mosaic technique of folded napkins different colors. It took more than two months of work to create it.
Chapel construction underway
Construction of a chapel in honor of the Kazan Icon is underway Mother of God at the intersection of Parkovaya and Pervomaiskaya streets.
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Center for Family Protection, Motherhood and Childhood
With the blessing of Bishop Ignatius of Armavir and Labinsk, at the parish of the Church of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian in Novokubansk, the work of the Center for the Protection of Family, Motherhood and Childhood was organized. The main activity of the Center is providing charitable clothing assistance to pregnant women, single mothers, fathers, large families in severe life situation. The center is located at the address: Novokubansk, Dzerzhinsky St., 59 (territory of the Church of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian). For all questions regarding the work of the Center, please contact tel. +7918-31-34-850, Demyanenko Marina Viktorovna.
Publications in the Traditions section
With light Christ's Resurrection- the most revered and joyful holiday of the church calendar, the “feast of feasts,” which symbolizes the renewal and salvation of the world and man, the triumph of life over death, good and light over evil and darkness.
Christian Easter is the memory of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, his death on the cross and miraculous resurrection. Easter is celebrated on lunar calendar Therefore, it does not have a fixed date; the holiday falls annually between April 4 and May 7. All Christians great place Easter was dominated by church rituals: solemn services, religious processions of clergy with chants glorifying Christ, family prayer services in homes.
IN Orthodox tradition The holiday begins at midnight with a solemn church service, matins and a procession around the temple. In the villages on Easter night, the church building was covered with the lights of lanterns, and bonfires were lit near it. Coals from fires were collected and placed under the roof to protect the house from lightning and fire, and hunters fired guns, wanting to ensure a successful hunt throughout the year. For a long time, in the north-west of Russia, the custom of collectively celebrating the sunrise on Easter on some hill was preserved, because It was widely believed that the sun rose “dancing” on this day.
One of the most important moments The holiday was a morning meal, when they broke their fast after strict Lent. On the Easter table, colored eggs, Easter cakes and Easter cottage cheese, consecrated in advance in the temple, were obligatory. According to tradition, during the meal, the father of the family cleared the first Easter Egg, cut it and gave it to every member of the household. Throughout Easter week, eggs were given to relatives, neighbors and acquaintances, young people who came to visit their mother-in-law were treated to eggs, and they were distributed to the poor as a memorial service. When exchanging eggs, they made Christ (exchanged three times kisses), saying: “Christ is Risen!”, and the answer is “Truly He is Risen!”. Izhora girls walked the streets and gave eggs to the guys they liked, and the Vepsians had a custom according to which the mother-in-law collected 100 eggs on Easter and presented them to her young son-in-law. Eggs consecrated in the temple have always been attributed a special miraculous power - healing and fruit-bearing.
The next day the celebration began. Teenagers and young people, festively dressed, went out into the street, sang, danced, men competed in sports games, played gorodki, lapta, and grandmas, the girls danced in circles. Everywhere in Russia there was a tradition of Easter swinging, which was installed in advance in every village. Young people swung in pairs or up to 12 people sat on a wide board, while the girls performed special “swing” songs.
The favorite game of male youth was a game using colored eggs (“roll eggs”). The goal was to knock down your opponent's egg with your egg and collect as many eggs as possible. For this game, special wooden troughs were made; eggs were rolled from an inverted trough or from natural hills.
All Easter week– Bright Week – by church calendar was considered festive. The parents of the newlyweds and engaged couples visited each other, the newlyweds went to their father-in-law and mother-in-law to celebrate Christ. Saturday was considered especially fun - the round dance. On the same day, in the evening, the ringing of bells, which had accompanied the entire holiday week, which ended with St. Thomas Sunday, ceased.