Easter Eggs

[Markus]

Is anyone's wife decorating or dressing up eggs for Easter in that special way that FSU people do? My wife brought the necessary things from
Russia and is making those special eggs.

[Jumper]

and pashky?

[knighta]

http://gotovim-doma.ru/view.php?r=886-recept-Kulich-na-zavarnom-teste

[Boethius]

Where do you live, Markus?  Most of what is needed to make pysanky is readily available in the West.  Incidentally, these are made throughout the Slavic speaing countries of Eastern Europe.  In Ukraine and Poland, there are regional variations in the decorations, and different decorations have different meanings.

Kalach, in Ukraine, is a bread served at funerals and at Christmas, not Easter.  Only paska is served at Easter.  Ukrainians have a basket of foods which are blessed at a midnight (or early morning) Easter service.  There are specific foods that are included.  Easter is a huge holiday in Orthodoxy. 

[Markus]

Boethius,

You'll have to pardon my ignorance on the specific words. But, my wife decorated some eggs and I took them to our next door neighbor kids. They loved them. My wife said that
her family did this same thing in Russia around this time. The father of the kids responded and said he had seen something similar to the eggs on the news but they were
laced in gold and cost in the 7 figure number. For us, the cost of the eggs and the covering was sufficient. I've seen photos on very expensive eggs before but have not
studied why. I'm just happy my wife enjoyed doing this for the neighbors.

[I/O]

a basket of foods which are blessed at a midnight (or early morning) Easter service.

Beloved and number one son are still Zzzzzzzzzzz (It's 11.30 am Easter Day here) as we returned only at 5.30 am (Departed at 11.00 pm last evening) to join the RO community in the capital of my state about 80 miles away for the Easter Day (Morn) vigil (Which began at 7.00 pm last evening). The finale at around 3.00 am was the blessing of the Eggs and Easter "Cakes" (Bread IMO) wifey (As have the other Russian Women) has diligently prepared. The Eggs are rather simple, dyed with red beet juice. The "Cakes" are somewhat more elaborate.

Easter is a huge holiday in Orthodoxy.

Nowhere more so than in Romania as I recall when I was there during Easter some years ago. The devotion to Orthodoxy almost takes on a ferocity in Romania but boy oh boy, do they cut loose and party at Easter.

[Simoni]

Is anyone's wife decorating or dressing up eggs for Easter in that special way that FSU people do? My wife brought the necessary things from
Russia and is making those special eggs.

Yep.  Here is a fresh batch.  Amazing art :-)

First pic is traditional; second is our fun innovation. Not your typical walmart sugar egg at all!

[Boethius]

Markus, perhaps you are referring to Faberge eggs?  You can google a lot of information about them, they were made for the Tsars.

I/O - I've never been to Romania.  In our home, or, perhaps more accurately, my Grandmother's home, Easter was a huge celebration, but no alcohol was served.  Same in my husband's family.   In both our grandparents' families, no meat was ever served on Wednesdays or Fridays, and Lenten periods, both before Christmas and Easter, were observed very strictly.  Graves are blessed the second week after Easter.

[I/O]

I/O - I've never been to Romania.  In our home, or, perhaps more accurately, my Grandmother's home, Easter was a huge celebration, but no alcohol was served.

There couldn't have been any alcohol served. I'm convinced Romania consumes Europes entire supply for several days over Easter. Reverence turns to revelry within hours (Sometime late on Friday) and doesn't seem to revert for several days.