Масленица – праздник языческий. И первоначально ее празднование на Руси было связано, по одним версиям, с прославлением бога Солнца Ярилы, по другим - "скотьего бога" Велеса.
В древние времена этот день был одним из тех, что осмыслить течение времени - смена сезонов обросла множеством примет и ритуалов. Масленица была одним из них - праздновали уходящую зиму и надеялись на скорое тепло. Гуляния всегда сопровождались огнем - горящие костры, колеса и чучело были главными атрибутами Масленицы и отзвуками культа солнца, царившего на Руси
Shrovetide is a pagan holiday. And initially its celebration in Russia was associated, according to some versions, with the glorification of the sun god Yarila, according to others - the "cattle god" Veles.
In ancient times, this day was one of those that help to comprehend the passage of time - the change of seasons was overgrown with many signs and rituals. Shrovetide was one of them - they celebrated the outgoing winter and hoped for an early warmth. Festivities were always accompanied by fire - burning bonfires, wheels and a scarecrow were the main attributes of Maslenitsa and echoes of the cult of the sun that reigned in Russia.
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Where is your brother? - He … a bath.
b. is having
4. … playing board games, don’t you?
a. Do you like
5. Helen is a vegetarian. She ... meat.
b. doesn’t eat
6. We must leave. It … late.
c. is getting
7. He is the most friendly person I …
b. have ever met.
8. Your idea … great!
c. sounds
9. My mother never buys expensive clothes, …
b. does she?
10. Who … you with your work?
b. helps
11. The FIFA championship … on the 1st of July.
a. starts
12. Susan … short fair hair and big grey eyes.
b. has got
13. I … what you are talking about.
b. don’t understand
14. Things … more and more expensive these days.
b. are getting
15. What … of it? – In my opinion, it is not a very good decision.
a. do you think
16. We … each other since childhood.
b. have known
17. My friend … English for 3 years now.
c. has been learning
18. They … a lot of problems since they have moved to the USA.
c. are having
19. John is here. He …
a. has just come.
20. I can’t climb the wall because I … a ladder.
c. don’t have got
Born into the Russian aristocracy in 1799, Pushkin was brought up in a heavily European-influenced environment. From his early years in Moscow, Pushkin had easy access to French and British literature—Voltaire, Byron, and Scott would become his early literary models. After graduating from a government lycée at Tsarskoe Selo in 1817, he obtained an appointment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in St. Petersburg. While there he alternated between periods of reckless dissipation and intense writing, finishing his first full-length work Ruslan i Lyudmila (Ruslan and Lyudmila) in 1820. Just prior to its publication, however, Czar Alexander I exiled Pushkin to southern Russia for the allegedly revolutionary political sentiments expressed in his poetry. During the first four years of his six-year exile, he retained his civil service position and lived in various towns in the Caucasus and Crimea. Despite bouts of gambling and drinking, he was productive during his years in southern Russia and wrote prolifically. Pushkin was eventually pardoned by Nicholas I in 1826, though the czar appointed himself the poet's personal censor, keeping him under strict observation and forbidding him to travel freely or leave Russia. In 1831 Pushkin married Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova, and in the final ten years of his life he lived primarily in St. Petersburg, producing his most enduring poetic works, including Eugene Onegin and all of his shorter fiction. In 1837 he was severely wounded in a duel with George d'Anthès, an Alsatian nobleman who had openly made sexual advances toward Pushkin's wife. Pushkin died two days later