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摘要

A fortress built of wooden pallets is set ablaze during a celebration for Maslenitsa on March 9. The Eastern Slavic folk holiday-a farewell to winter-takes place the week before the start of Russian Orthodox Lent and involves the burning of a large effigy (this one representing the Bastille, a symbol of the French Revolution). The abandoned village of Nikola-Lenivets, about 140 miles southwest of Moscow, is now an art park.