Автор:Mikhall Krasilin Год: 1995 Издание:Панас-Аэро Страниц: 96 ISBN: [не указан] During the final days of Lent, as Easter approaches, every Russian family is drawn into a bustle of festive preparation. Passion Week Thursday is consecrated to the mysteries of housekeeping as everything is cleaned and washed. Kitchens are fragrant with the scent of spices and the smells of yeasty dough with candied fruit and raisins, as the kulich or Easter cake is prepared. Delicate-flavoured paskha is gently folded into pyramid-shaped moulds, and eggs turn deep reddish-brown as they tumble to and fro in a seething broth of onion skins. Everyone and everything is looking forward eagerly to the great celebration. Everyone is infected by the feelings of hope that still return to fill our hearts, even as the end of the twentieth century approaches.
