The Shrovetide processions - banned in turn by the Catholic Church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and by the socialist government in the twentieth century - play an important role in securing cohesion within the village community.

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The decades go by, they turn into centuries, and we forget.

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Three centuries ago, when Peter the Great was trying to turn feudal, agrarian Russia into a modern state, he encountered a major source of friction inside the system.

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The archaeologists may turn up other unexpected finds as they dig back through soil packed down over centuries.

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Traders from Europe would turn up centuries ago and introduce an ingredient or dish, but before it got disseminated, the king had to agree.

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