festival
St. Thomas Sunday
also: Красная горка
The first Sunday after Easter in the Orthodox calendar (Krasnaya Gorka in Russian folk tradition), traditionally associated with matchmaking and the resumption of weddings after the Lenten/Paschal ban.
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §215 Thomas Sunday
The first Sunday after Easter ("Krasnaya Gorka" in Russian folk tradition), traditionally when weddings resume after the Lenten and Paschal ban -- hence the calendar's line "one may already marry."
- Krasnaya Gorka §1 St. Thomas's Week
The week following St. Thomas Sunday (the first Sunday after Orthodox Easter); Chekhov opens by distinguishing the Church calendar's name for the period from the older pagan festival, Krasnaya Gorka, that coincided with it.
- Krasnaya Gorka §14 Krasnaya Gorka
Literally 'Red Hillock' -- the Russian folk name for St. Thomas Sunday and the week that follows, when weddings resume after the Lenten and Paschal ban; the essay plays throughout on the double sense of krasnyi as both 'red' and (in older usage) 'beautiful/fine'.