festival
Great Lent
also: Великий пост
The forty-day Orthodox Christian fast preceding Easter, during which church canon restricts the celebration of weddings.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 26 January 1887. Moscow. §7 the second week of Lent
The forty-day Orthodox fasting period preceding Easter; theatrical performances were curtailed during Lent, making public literary readings a popular alternative form of entertainment in Petersburg and Moscow society.
- Ivan Leontyevich Leontyev (Shcheglov), February 28, 1888. Moscow. §2 the start of Lent
Great Lent, the forty-day Orthodox fast before Easter; Chekhov is estimating when his travels will bring him to Petersburg.
- The Murder §31 Peter's Fast
Петровки (Peter's Fast, the Apostles' Fast) is a lesser Orthodox fast of variable length before the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29 O.S.); linked here to the same entity as Great Lent as the corpus's general fasting-calendar concept, though it is a distinct, shorter fast period.
- In One's Own Corner §44 Sunday during Great Lent
The forty-day Orthodox fasting period preceding Easter; the aunt's suggestion that Vera go to church, framed in terms of what people will think rather than belief itself, is consistent with the story's broader picture of religious observance as social performance in this household.
- If You Chase Two Hares, You Won't Catch Either §49 the Great Lent
The forty-day Orthodox fast preceding Easter, during which church rules restrict weddings -- the fact Nadenka's exercise sentence garbles.