Affordable and Beautiful Hotels in Moscow with good location: Winewood Moscow Lounge Hotel https://winewood.moscow/ru-ru/rooms/standard-double-room “Winewood Moscow Lounge Hotel” is located in a vibrant neighborhood. Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station is a three-minute walk away. You can’t find a better place to get to the Moscow Zoo and Patriarshiye Ponds as quickly as possible. You will… Read More »
Is Moscow a good place to visit, good tourist/holiday destination? The city of Moscow is located in the Central Federal District of Russia and is an inland city. As the capital of Russia it is also the most populated city in the world that is considered inland with a population hovering around 11.5 million citizens.… Read More »
The Eastern and Southern Slavic people have a round white bread called kalach, usually baked in the form of a ring with a small hole in the center. The Western Slavs used this as a ritual bread. They also used wedding karavai (a small round loaf). A kalach is a sort of high-quality white bread… Read More »
Slang words are unusual expressions and words which only a small group of people knows. Slang isn’t an injurious trend in a language. It’s believed to be an important part of a modern speech system. Няша [‘nyasha] is silt, mud with slime; a liquid, boggy bottom of a lake; watery marsh according to the Dal’… Read More »
“Have a good day!” is “Хорошего дня!” (“Harosheva dnya!”). You can wish somebody to have a good day in the morning or in the afternoon. You should use this phrase at the end of a conversation. If the situation is official, you can add “Вам” (“Vam”) and say, “Хорошего Вам дня!” (“Harosheva Vam dnya!”). It… Read More »
The story of the band Malchishnik started in the 1990s. Its members met on Arbat in Moscow. They were keen on urban culture like break-dance and rap. They were giving street performances and organizing competitions. At that time it never occurred to anybody that rap with uncompromising texts about sex which was popular in North… Read More »
This is a story about Russian roofers, who climbed to the roof of the most popular city museum Hermitage to see fireworks during The Scarlet Sails celebration 2013 (White Nights Festival event) in St. Petersburg, Russia. How did they manage to do it? The roofer Ignat said: “It was amazing day for me and friends… Read More »
After a stressful year of teaching English in China, I needed a break. Not only was I grinding my teeth at night, but I had started unconsciously yanking out my eyebrow hair in a stress-based fugue state. It was not a good time for me, so I decided to declutter my life and spend a… Read More »
The original courtyard with the colorful mosaic is located in the center of St. Petersburg, Russia, near the Fontanka River, Tchaikovsky Street 2/7. Every courtyard differs from other ones. A distinctive feature of this courtyard is that the walls of houses, playground, flower beds, benches, sundial, and statues are covered with mosaic!
In Russian fairytales Ivanushka asks Baba-Yaga for steaming in a banya first and then to ask him questions. These concepts about hospitality have been kept to our time. You can find records of “myl’nya” (which is a derivative of a “mylo” (a soap)) in the ancient chronicles of XI-XII centuries in which there is a… Read More »
Photographers-animalists much depend on luck, great pictures happen to be taken incredibly easy. But you have to be patient often and work really hard to achieve the result. For example, this is photo of the wolverine, and it wasn’t made without a fortune. Wolverine is a pretty careful animal, usually active at dusk and night. They inhabit… Read More »
The proverb «Give a piece of iron to a Tula resident and he will make a new samovar from it for you» isn’t known by everyone. A unique piece of work, first brought into the world in 1778 due to the creativity of Russian master Nazar Lisitsin, samovars are known all around the world. Read… Read More »