The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-07
EASTER BRINGS
ERA OF HOPE
TO MOSCOW
First Time Since Upheavel That
Feminine Population Par
ade in New Gowns
No Finery.
BIC RUSSIAN HOLIDAY
Nobility Stand Aside in Pre-
War Clothes for Shop Girls
Religious Services
Not Forgotten.
By EDWIN W. HULLINCER

(United Press SfGt CorTespondenD
Moscow, June 2.-Easter will go down
in the personal history of the Russian
Revolution, particularly in the memories
/ Of feminine Moscow. as new clothes
Easter"
For the first time since the great up
heaval, Moscow was able to have a real
Easter fashions parade, with real new
gowns-so new that their newness seemed
fairly to radiate its message than the
long years Of isolation from the rest Of
the world were now ended and a new era
of hope was upon Russia.
This was the first time since the war
that new dresses have been seen in num-
bers on the streets Of Moscow. The
dresses were simple and there was little
Of the old grandeur Of finery and jewels.
While the belfries of Moscow's sixteen
hundred churches changed out an Easter
chorus, Moscow's entire population, so it
seemed, turned out on the big boulevards,
enlivening the long promenade from the
Nikitskaya Gates to the ancient monas-
tary at Tverskaya once more with color
and happiness.
FORMER MAIDS IN LEAD
This time, however, il was the prin-
cesses and countesses' who stood quietly
in the sidepaths, in sober prewar gar
menis. looking enviously at the new
dresses of the shop girls, some Of whom
may have been their former maids.
Here and there former officer in drab
french overcoat (many still wear their
old uniforms. having nothing else to
wear) stood reAectively watching, his
walking stick the only relic Of his for
mer glory, while Red army officers, in
their flaming crimson trousers, high
shiny boots with clinking spurs, red
caps and snappy green or blue coats,
strobe by, drawing the eyes of the bright
shawled peasant girls on the benches.
For it was fashions day for the Red
army, as the shop girls. And they came
out en- masse in their new piece uniforms
Of brilliant hues.
THE GREATEST EASTER
Easter week, the traditional climax of
Russia's national religious, emotional and |
artistic life, was the greatest Easter this
year Russia has had since the Revolution. !
To Russia, Easter means all that Christ !:
mas, New Years, and perhaps the Fourth,
IF July combined mean to America. It'I
$ the supreme of Russian holidays and
eastdays.
Never were such preparations made.
For weeks, family after family had been
aging aside tiny portions Of their small
lays fare to have enough -four for Easter
Zurich, kind of cake. Children and
alike had been boarding nuts,
ruit preserves and spices for the Paskha,
2ussia's national Easter cheese-cake.
Money that should have gone for meat
vas treasured away to buy a first bottle
# wine.
Moscow's bells rang almost continu-
'usly for seven days-I might almost
ay seven nights-kept ringing volunteer
orps of church members who took rlrns
n the belfries. The revolutionary 4
population tried for brief space of a
seek 1.-THE Easter holidays las, through
ut the entire week after Easter in Rus
ia) to forget the hungers and cares Of
he last five years. II
Cafes and cabarets remained open the
reater part of the night and paper
osibles went by the hundreds of mil
ons. For MoscOw's new aristocracy Of
newly rich, the spectators,
ave almost as much money in compari-
On as the former aristocracy Of wealth
nd birth had in comparison with the
common people" Of those days. II
5000 WITH CANDLES.
Nor was the religious beauty Of the
,siival neglected. Six thousand per-
,ns, each with Pickering candle in his
and, stood with barred heads on the hill
efore the steps Of the Cathedral Of Our
aviour, Easter midnight, as the Patri-
,ch, his long golden robe and his be-
,oo-ll.,U e ,oucbt II