Thousands of English speakers will visit Moscow this year. Almost all will go to the Kremlin. A tiny fraction will attend a Moscow ballet. Let’s move those numbers closer to being even. Why wouldn’t everyone go to a Moscow ballet?
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Moscow Ballet – Everything You Need To know to go to the Bolshoi Ballet
Thousands of English speakers will visit Moscow this year. Almost all will go to the Kremlin. A tiny fraction will attend a Moscow ballet. Let’s move those numbers closer to being even. Why wouldn’t everyone go to a Moscow ballet?
27 January, St. Petersburg marks the lifting of the WWII blockade.
Drinking Song of Volkhov Front.
The Siege of Leningrad September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944
The diary of Tanya Savicheva, a girl of 11, her notes about starvation and deaths of her grandmother, then uncle, then mother, then brother, the last record saying "Only Tanya is left." She died of progressive dystrophy shortly after the siege. Her diary was shown at the Nuremberg trials.
Soviet ski troops by the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
Firebird (Russian: жар-пти́ца, zhar-ptitsa)
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City: Yaroslavl
Technology: lime tree leaves, scotch tape, three days of work.
Result: enthusiasm and amazement of townspeople.
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Author: an artist Denis Kulikov
In Slavic folklore, the Firebird (Russian: жар-пти́ца, zhar-ptitsa), is a magical glowing bird from a faraway land, which is both a blessing and a bringer of doom to its captor.
Cucumber Day Celebration in Suzdal, Russia
In Suzdal, Cucumber Day is celebrated every year in the middle of July.
You’ll be able to see many cucumber hors d’oeuvres, people, alcohol, culinary master classes, and a sky shot of a cucumber.
Welcome!
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