Our students have visited workshops of manual weaving, knitting, fulling, braiding from natural materials, as well as a pottery workshop, where they learnt much about the folk crafts that are traditional for this village. They also took part in an entertaining program related to the upcoming Shrovetide: they sang holiday humorous rhymes, danced and sang in a ring, played traditional Shrovetide games, ate pancakes, and drank tea from a wood-burning samovar.

This has been a good chance for them to learn a lot about Russian ethnic arts and crafts.

Russian original information and photo source: the Department of Geography & Geology of ASU

Shrovetide Excursion for Future Geographers & Geologists