Another exception is Russian, in which the name of the feast, Пасха ( Paskha ), is a borrowing of the Greek form via Old Church Slavonic.

* Paskha ( dish ) ( Russian: Пасха ), spelled Pasha in Finnish

Easter () or Pascha (, Paskha ; Pasḥa ; from Pesaḥ ) is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.

* Paskha ( meal ), an Easter dish served in several Slavic countries

* Easter Molded Cheese Dessert Recipe-Paska / Paskha

Usually called the Feast of Theophany ( Greek:, " God shining forth " or " divine manifestation "), it is one of the Great Feasts of the liturgical year, being third in rank, behind only Paskha ( Easter ) and Pentecost in importance.

* Pine Cone ( Fabergé egg ), a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1900

The celebrated Fabergé workshops created exquisite jewelled Easter eggs for the Russian Imperial Court.

* March 30 – Due to different transition dates to the Gregorian calendar, Finland ( then part of the Russian Empire ) is the only place in the world to have Easter day on this particular Sunday.

* Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture

This can also be seen in Moscow ’ s Red Square and the Russian Orthodox festivity, Red Easter.

Peter Carl Fabergé, also known as " Karl Gustavovich Fabergé " ( Karl Gustavovič Faberže, September 24, 1920 ), was a Russian jeweller, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs, made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials.

* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian Easter Festival Overture

It draws a parallel between the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many Western nations and the last Russian imperial family's tradition of giving elaborately jeweled egg-shaped creations by Carl Fabergé which contained hidden surprises.

The massacre of unarmed Russian soldiers attending the Easter service was regarded as a " crime against humanity " by Russians and was an argument for a vengeance later, during siege of Warsaw.

The German delegation became the object of unwelcome attention when it concluded a political and economic agreement with the Russian foreign minister Georgi Chicherin in Rapallo on Easter Sunday ( April 16 ).

* Russian Easter Benedict replaces the Hollandaise sauce with a lemon juice and mustard flavored Béchamel Sauce, and is topped with black caviar.

* Mosaic ( Fabergé egg ), a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1914

The music for the Easter Midnight Mass scene is a Russian Orthodox Church hymn, " Bogoroditse Devo " ( Rejoice, O Virgin ) from " Three Choruses from ' Tsar Feodor Ioannovich '", taken from the album Sacred Songs of Russia by Gloriae Dei Cantores.

Among them are examples of Art Nouveau jewelry by René Lalique, jeweled objects by the House of Fabergé, including two Russian imperial Easter eggs, and precious jewels by Tiffany and Co.

From Buda, in March 1440, he published an encyclical calling on all Russian bishops to accept the union, but when he at last arrived in Moscow ( Easter, 1441 ), and proclaimed the union in the Kremlin church, he found that the Grand Duke Vasily II of Moscow and most of the bishops and people would have none of it.

* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Russian Easter Overture

However the cathedral has also introduced three separate services for the blessing of kulichs and paskha ( Russian Easter foodstuffs ) during the afternoon of Holy Saturday as well one prior to the Saturday Evening Vigil Service, in addition to the blessings of foodstuffs which traditionally have always happened at the end of each Divine Liturgy on Holy Saturday and the Sunday of Pascha itself.

Starting on April 8, 1855 ( Easter Sunday ), the Allies resumed their bombardment of the Russian defences.

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Thanks to de Bruijn's short stopover in Nizhny Novgorod during the Easter holidays, we now have his description of that major center of the Russian Volga trade as it existed in 1703, with its Kremlin, stone churches, and a lively bar ( kabak ) scene.

* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphony No. 1 ; Symphony No. 2 " Antar "; Symphony No. 3 ; Capriccio espagnol ; Russian Easter Overture ; Piano Concerto ; Sadko.

During the summer there he finished Sheherazade and the Russian Easter Festival Overture.

* Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture ; Scheherazade ; Capriccio Espagnol

A Creole trifle ( also sometimes known as a ' Russian cake ' or a ' Russian Slab ') is a different but related dessert item consisting of pieces of a variety of cakes mixed and packed firmly, moistened with alcohol ( commonly red wine or rum ) and a sweet syrup or fruit juice, and chilled.

Pavlova is a meringue-based dessert named after the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova.

In the Russian Primary Chronicle there is a story of how kissel saved a 10th-century city, besieged by nomadic Pechenegs in 997 ( the first mention of this type of dessert ).

The Samarkand Winery produces a range of dessert wines from local grape varieties: Gulyakandoz, Shirin, Aleatiko, and Kabernet likernoe ( literally Cabernet dessert wine in Russian ).

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

A variation of a White Russian made with skim milk is known as an Anna Kournikova.

The Armenian Government is working toward closing the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant and has already made an agreement with Russian " businessmen " about the construction and operation and ownage of a new Nuclear power plant.

During the years 1106-1107 A. D., a Russian Orthodox Abbot named Daniel made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and recorded his experiences.

These and other works raised his reputation so high that the most flattering offers were sent to him from the Russian court to induce him to remove to St Petersburg, but these were declined, although many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

It is sometimes made with cola, in which case it is referred to as a Dirty Black Russian, as opposed to Clean when without it.

* The Black Magic, a sour twist on the Black Russian, can be made by adding a dash of lemon juice and a lemon twist garnish.

An attempt was therefore made to send more troops from Tientsin, where British ships had been joined by French, German, Russian, Austrian, Italian and Japanese.

The first Russian examples were all made by Yevgeni Bauer for Khanzhonkov during the First World War, and include Grezy, Schastye vechnoi nochi, and Posle smerti, all from 1915.

In the end, the economic and political investments that Germany had made in Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin had paid off.

The Russian GLObal NAvigation Satellite System ( GLONASS ) was in use by only the Russian military, until it was made fully available to civilians in 2007.

This was the outcome of the Russo-Swedish War from 1741 to 1743 where the Russian Empress made the imposition of her relative Adolf Frederick as the heir to the Swedish Throne, to succeed Frederick I who lacked legitimate issue, as a peace condition.

'"-He informed Marlow " that it was Kurtz who had ordered the attack to be made on the steamer "-The harlequin-like Russian refers to a canoe waiting for him, and adds: "' Ah!

Eastern influence remained strong well until the 17th century, when Russian rulers made a conscious effort to modernize their country.

A major factor in the ascendancy of Moscow was the cooperation of its rulers with the Mongol overlords, who granted them the title of Grand Prince of Moscow and made them agents for collecting the Tatar tribute from the Russian principalities.

Lönnrot made his eighth field trip to the Russian border town of Lapukka where the great singer Arhippa Perttunen had learned his trade.

At subsequent congresses of the Russian Communist Party and meetings of the ECCI, Radek and Brandler were made the scapegoats for the defeat of the revolution by Zinoviev, with Radek being removed from the ECCI at the Fifth Congress of the Comintern

In New York City he wrote articles for the local Russian language socialist newspaper Novy Mir and the Yiddish language daily Der Forverts ( The Forward ) in translation and made speeches to Russian émigrés.