The colourful world of Russian sayings

25 Apr 2019

Safe to say that Russian is a "filthy" rich language, with an insanely wide range of different proverbs and sayings that fit every situation and can be used to convey your ...
05 Jul 2017

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With good reason known to these days as Catherine the Great, the Russian Empress was one of the most fascinating and powerful rulers ever. Despite her being an outsider, ...
14 Jan 2016

I want to dedicate this article to Russian superstitions and traditions extremely common and practiced until today by the majority of the population. Most of them are rooted ...
14 Jan 2016

As many of you know, everywhere in the world this day, January 1st, is a day off, especially because we all celebrated welcoming the new year with familiy and friends; ...
14 Jan 2016

Unlike us the Russian Christmas is celebrated on the 7th January, like in the rest of the slavic countries. As in our culture, this day marks the birth of Christ. Although its ...
14 Jan 2016

Kamchatka was founded on the Kamchatka Peninsula in 2007. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski is the oldest town of Russian Far East with 196 thousand residents. The climate on the ...
20 Apr 2015

When you are in a foreign country and you meet a different culture you can easily get into misunderstandings. As you have probably already experienced for yourself, knowing ...
18 Mar 2015

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Die Geschichte dieses Theater reicht bis in das Jahr 1783 zurück als es noch unter dem Namen „Большой Театр“ („Großes Theater“) bekannt war. Im Verlauf der letzten paar ...