Mayovka

{{Short description|Type of picnic during the Russian Empire}}

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In the context of the late Russian Empire, a mayovka ({{langx|ru|маёвка}}, {{IPA|ru|mɐˈjɵfkə|IPA}}) was a picnic in the countryside or in a park in the early days of May. Eventually, "mayovka" came to mean an illegal celebration of May 1 by revolutionary dissidents, typically presented as an innocent picnic.{{Cite web |url=http://homofestivus.ru/maevki.html |title="Маевки" |access-date=May 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518100624/http://homofestivus.ru/maevki.html |archive-date=May 18, 2015 |url-status=dead }} After the revolution, this proletarian mayovka merged into Labour Day.