Best Russian Ballet Dancers Since the birth of Ballet in Russia and the creation of the Russian Ballet, there have been many ballet companies emerging to the top and getting worldwide appreciation. Moreover, along with these companies Russia produced some of the finest and most celebrated ballet dancers who not just astonished and overwhelmed their […]
Top 8 Russian Iconic buildings Saint Basil’s Cathedral. The cathedral was consecrated in 1561. Moscow tsar Ivan Grozniy named a cathedral built near the Kremlin Pokrovskiy cathedral even before the beginning of the construction. People called this cathedral the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed after completion of the construction. They named it after a local […]
Male names originated from Slavic, Greek, Jewish names are popular in Russia today. Top 10 popular male names 2018 in Russia consists of the names such as Alexander, Dmitriy, Artyom, Alexey, Sergey, Ivan, Vladislav, Bogdan, Vladimir, and Daniil. You can translate Alexander from Greek as a “defender”. It’s one of the most popular male names […]
Every country has three main symbols which are the State Emblem, the National Flag, and the National Anthem. An anthem is an ancient Greek word which comes from the verb “sing” and “glorify”. “Glorify” means “to make public” and “to honour the memory”. An anthem differs from other songs by that it’s written in a […]
Like every flag, Russian flag represents its nation and Russian people love their flag very much. They always try to keep this flag upward by means of their acts and achievements. Following are some interesting facts about Russian Flag 1. The present day Russian flag comprises three colors: white, blue and red. It was adopted […]
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. […]
Hard Russian names to pronounce There are such names in Russian which don’t exist in English. When you translate Russian names into English you use the technique called transliteration. You should take into account specific features of translation of letters of the Cyrillic alphabet into Latin. Mstislav is an ancient Russian name. It consists of […]
A Matreshka is a small wooden painted doll in which there are some smaller copies of it. The first matreshka who was a round-faced average peasant girl wearing a three-cornered colored painted kerchief and a Russian national smart sarafan appeared not at all in ancient times. The first prototype of a matreshka was brought from […]