festival
Feast of the Ascension
the Ascension
also: Вознесенье, Voznesenye
A movable Orthodox feast, forty days after Easter, marking Christ's ascension into heaven; provincial towns timed trading fairs to it, which is why the Chikamasov household buys its yearly stock of dress material there.
Reading notes
- The Dowry §17 the fair at the Ascension
The movable feast of Christ's Ascension (forty days after Orthodox Easter); provincial towns held trading fairs timed to such feast days, which is why the household's yearly stock of cloth is bought there.