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From The travels of Olearius in Seventeenth-Century Russia, ed. Samel H. Baron (Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 1967):
"On May 24th, the Saturday before Pentecost, I went to Russian Narva to see how Russians honored the memory of their deceased relatives and friends. The cemetery was full of Russian women, who had spread upon the graves and gravestones beautifully sewn, varicolored handkerchiefs, on which they set dishes containing three or four long pancakes and pies, two or three pieces of dried fish, and colored eggs. ( Read more... )