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We must live in peace, without wars and terrorism!!! However humanity does not strive to live in peace, because of globa...
25/03/2024

We must live in peace, without wars and terrorism!!!

However humanity does not strive to live in peace, because of global economic dependence.

Someone has everything , others have nothing. All people and all mankind are equal inhabitants of our planet.

Since there are more than enough resources, then access to these resources should have all citizens of this world.

There is less water somewhere, but there is gold, less gold, more iron, etc.

Political games, crimes, dirty and awful strategies - this is what is happening in our world at the moment, mainly because they try to get more economic influence.

I want everything to be in balance, then there would be no war, no victims. Only friendship and peace all around the Globe.

Condolences to all those who died on 03/22/2024 at Crocus City Hall 🙏🙏🙏in Moscow 🙏🙏🙏

😯Russian superstitions are very diverse. I want you to compare some popular superstitions with yours. Please have a look...
15/02/2024

😯Russian superstitions are very diverse. I want you to compare some popular superstitions with yours. Please have a look: 👇🏻

1. To spill salt - to shed tears🧂

This is considered to be a bad sign, which cause quarrels and misfortunes. Salt in the old days was a very expensive product, so spilling it was equal to losing money. 🫢

2. If you whistle at home, you’ll miss the money💸

😗According to legends, whistling can attract evil spirits into the house, which can steal wealth. In addition, whistling can offend a brownie, who can leave the house, taking luck and well-being with him.

3. Clothes which you wear inside out is a bad sign. 👖

😦According to legends, clothing protects a person from evil forces. If you put it on inside out, it loses its power and the person becomes vulnerable to trouble.

4. If you sew on yourself, you will sew up your memory🪡

🧠According to legend, a needle can pierce a person’s memory, which can lead to its weakening or even complete disappearance.

5. If you step on the threshold, you’ll wake up your forefathers🤫

😯Passing through the threshold, a person leaves the house and enters another space where different rules apply. Therefore, it is important to be careful not to break these rules.

6. If a woman’s hair falls, the grass does not grow💇🏼‍♀️

According to the legend, hair is a source of human strength. Hair loss means loss of strength and vulnerability to trouble.🫣

Does it coincide with your superstitions or not?

🇷🇺Russian hat. 🪆The Russian hat with earflaps absolutely does not need advertising. It is as much a part of the Russian ...
14/11/2023

🇷🇺Russian hat.

🪆The Russian hat with earflaps absolutely does not need advertising. It is as much a part of the Russian history as matryoshka dolls.

🥶These hard with "ears" are always in demand in Russia during a winter time.

🧳During the Soviet times, ushanka hat was not only a necessary accessory for people, but also an ideal storage place: money, papers and valuables were hidden in its lapels.

🧐In the 90s, mink earflaps were considered something luxurious and prestigious

😎After the 2000s, the Russian ushanka crossed the limits of its practicality and appeared on the world podium. The ushanka became a fashionable element thanks to the couturier Vyacheslav Zaitsev.

😮He was the first to use it in his images, the next were Dolce & Gabbana.

⚽️This headdress is also considered one of the main symbols of Chelsea Football Club fans. It indicates the appreciation of the club's fans to the Russian oligarch, who does spare funds for the development of English football.

Watermelons in Antarctica? 🍉😯Russian scientists have grown real watermelons in the coldest place on our planet – at the ...
17/08/2023

Watermelons in Antarctica? 🍉

😯Russian scientists have grown real watermelons in the coldest place on our planet – at the Vostok Antarctic station. In 103 days, they managed to harvest eight watermelons!

👍🏻The plant was grown in a specially created phytocomplex, which was developed at the Agrophysical Institute. The plants were planted in April, hand pollinated in May and, in July, the first watermelons were tasted.

👏“The results of the experiment are impressive - we managed to grow the southernmost watermelons in the harshest conditions of Antarctica, in taste and aroma no worse than domestic ones! The size of the fruits reached up to 13 cm in diameter and their weight – up to 1 kg. Naturally, all polar explorers were happy to remember the taste of summer. Even the observation of sprouting seeds, their growth and appearance of fruits and their increase brought positive emotions,” shares Andrei Teplyakov, leading geophysicist of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.

🥒In the near future, the polar explorers expect a no less impressive harvest of cucumbers.

👩‍🔬The experiment takes place within the framework of the 68th Russian Antarctic expedition together with scientists of the Agrophysical Research Institute and the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

❄️‘Vostok’ is a year-round Russian station in Antarctica, which was founded in 1957. It is located almost in the very center of the continent, at a point that is dubbed “the cold pole of the planet”. In 1983, a record low temperature of -89.2°C was registered there. Even in summer, it rarely rises above -30°С.

Soviet doctor story🧑‍⚕️ An attack of acute appendicitis caught Leonid Rogozov at the most inopportune moment in the most...
19/07/2023

Soviet doctor story🧑‍⚕️

An attack of acute appendicitis caught Leonid Rogozov at the most inopportune moment in the most inopportune place. The surgeon was on a Soviet station… in Antarctica! 🥶

❌Hunger, cold and rest did not help. It was impossible to leave the station and there were no other doctors nearby either. Leonid had to operate on himself.

🩺In the late evening of April 30, 1961, he began the operation. Mechanical engineer Teplinsky held a mirror at the doctor’s feet and meteorologist Artemiev handed him the necessary instruments. They were all extremely frightened.

💉“I was scared, too,” Rogozov recalled. “But then, I took a needle of novocaine and gave myself an injection first. Somehow, I automatically switched to surgery mode and, from then on, I didn’t notice anything different.”

🫣The operation lasted almost two hours. The surgeon worked by looking in the mirror and, sometimes, acted simply by touch. He had to overcome the dizziness and weakness and make forced pauses. At one point, Rogozov’s heart nearly stopped, but, in the end, everything ended safely.

The news of Leonid Rogozov’s feat went around the whole USSR. For a short while, the simple doctor even became a very popular person in the country.👏

🚀Sixty years ago, the flight of the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, took place. Her solo mission aboard th...
27/06/2023

🚀Sixty years ago, the flight of the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, took place. Her solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6 was a great historical event not only for the Soviet Union, but for all mankind.

🪂Tereshkova aspired to rocket into space as a young girl: she parachuted and made more than one hundred jumps. Thanks to her sporting success and physical prowess, she eventually became chosen to be the first female to conquer space.

🏆 Tereshkova is the first person to receive a special Gagarin award.👏

Felix Dadaev, Stalin’s double. 😦 🤫Dagestani Felix Dadaev became the official double of the Soviet General Secretary at t...
08/06/2023

Felix Dadaev, Stalin’s double. 😦

🤫Dagestani Felix Dadaev became the official double of the Soviet General Secretary at the age of 24.

🎤Before the Great Patriotic War this regular village boy performed in a song and dance ensemble; when the war started, he performed in a concert brigade at the front.

📢Word of his uncanny resemblance to Stalin quickly reached the generals.

📨Dadaev was seriously wounded and was considered dead; his relatives were already sent a death notification.

🕵️‍♂️This “disappearance” played right into the plans of the Chekists. In 1943 he was sent on a secret special flight to Moscow, where he was stationed at one of the country dachas, and told what was required of him..

🫢To resemble Stalin even more, Dadaev gained 11 kilograms, yellowed his teeth (Stalin smoked, while Dadaev didn’t) and learned to copy Stalin from newsreels for several months under NKVD surveillance.

🎭However, there was one major mismatch – their ages. The difference between Dadaev and Stalin was almost 40 years. So Dadaev learned by himself how to put “pockmarks” onto his face like those of Stalin and always walked around with makeup on.

👤He was trusted with official visits, foreign delegation receptions, starring in newsreels, attending the parade on Red Square, and even reading reports on the radio.

No eyewitness ever suspected a thing! Until 1996, information about his secret job was classified.
He’s alive, by the way, having turned 100 on March 2, 2023!👏

How to bake “Kravets” - a hearty festive pie from Russia’s Republic of Mari El  🥮Kravets pie is a culinary gem of the Re...
10/05/2023

How to bake “Kravets” - a hearty festive pie from Russia’s Republic of Mari El 
 
🥮Kravets pie is a culinary gem of the Republic of Mari El, which is located in the eastern part of the European Plain of Russia. Some say that this pie is an easy way to prepare tender meat in an edible pot.
 
Depending on the time of year, different fillings are used: lamb in summer, pork and beef in winter, and poultry in autumn. 🥧
 
🔺According to wedding tradition, the pie should be cut into seven equal parts by the groom's best man. But it’s not as easy as it looks.

Yuri Gagarin 👩‍🚀🚀 62 years ago Yuri Gagarin flew around the Earth, becoming the first man in outer space. 🛰️From this da...
18/04/2023

Yuri Gagarin 👩‍🚀

🚀 62 years ago Yuri Gagarin flew around the Earth, becoming the first man in outer space.

🛰️From this date, the era of manned space travel began. Inside of the ‘Vostok-1’ spacecraft Gagarin started from the Baikonur cosmodrome and in 108 minutes he landed in a collective farm field in the Saratov region.

👨‍🚀🧑‍🚀Gagarin was one of several cosmonauts being considered for the flight. In the spring of 1960 the first group of space travelers enrolled 20 people.

‼️In summer, six of them were chosen: Yuri Gagarin, German Titov, Andriyan Nikolayev, Pavel Popovich, Grigory Nelyubov and Valery Bykovsky.

🚀Only a few days before the launch, the State Commission decided that it was Gagarin who would go into space.

🚔Karl Lagerfeld’s stayed in prison in Siberia for 10 years…  You know Karl Lagerfeld very well. He was a very talented d...
04/04/2023

🚔Karl Lagerfeld’s stayed in prison in Siberia for 10 years…

You know Karl Lagerfeld very well. He was a very talented designer and the brand of clothing with his name is still in Russia despite of the sanctions. 👗

👇🏻But I would like to tell you a story not about him, but about his father. Why in the context of Russia? Read further….

🥶Verkhoyansk (the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia) is one of the coldest places on earth and one of the smallest towns in Russia. And, starting in the 1860s, a labor camp for exiles was established over there.

🥛In 1907, Lagerfeld, a 26-year-old trading representative of a concentrated milk factory, arrived from San Francisco via Japan to Vladivostok and opened an office there.

🙏When Germany declared war against Russia on August 1, 1914, the merchant sent a request to the Russian authorities to get permission to travel back to the United States via Japan.

🕵️Nevertheless, on August 3, 1914, he was arrested on suspicion of espionage as a former member of the German army. Within a month, Otto was first sent to the guardroom on Russky Island, then transferred to the Vladivostok regional prison, after which he was sent to a settlement in Yakutia, to Verkhoyansk.

After the war, Lagerfeld was allowed to leave for Germany. He returned to his homeland town of Hamburg and continued selling concentrated milk.❤️

👏🏼He subsequently set up his own production in several cities across the country, including the East Prussian town of Allenburg.

🌎After World War II, East Prussia was ceded to the USSR. And Allenburg became the village of Druzhba in the newly renamed Kaliningrad Region.

🧳Karl Lagerfeld also visited Russia. But only Moscow and only on short fashion-related visits.

📜An interesting story about Nikolai Yelizarov.  👷‍♂️In 1978, Nikolai Yelizarov, a former simple Soviet worker, became th...
16/03/2023

📜An interesting story about Nikolai Yelizarov.

👷‍♂️In 1978, Nikolai Yelizarov, a former simple Soviet worker, became the president of anti-Soviet Taiwan.

❗️His story:

In 1925, a sixteen-year-old Chinese teenager by the name of Chiang Ching-kuo arrived in the USSR. 👦

🫡He was the eldest son of Generalissimo Chang Kaishi, the permanent leader of the national conservative party, the Kuomintang and the Taiwan-based Republic of China (not recognized by the Russian Federation).

🤝Stalin and the leader of China maintained good relations at the time.

In the Soviet Union, Chiang received a Russian name, an education and a job at the industrial enterprise in the Urals district. 👍

👰‍♀️He even married a simple Russian girl named Faina Vyakhireva.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦However in 1937 Chiang Ching-kuo, together with his wife and children, returned back to China and, after the defeat of the Kuomintang in the Civil War, together with his father, moved to Taiwan.

🕴️For ten years (from 1978 to 1988), Ching-kuo led the partially recognized island state and did much to promote its economic prosperity and turn it into an “Asian tiger”.

The president himself was characterized by an extremely modest lifestyle, which he picked up in the Soviet Union and gave most of his income to charity.🙏

Favourite biscuits of Leo Tolstoy 🙏🥮Leo Tolstoy adored thegingerbread with almonds. This recipe originated in the kitche...
09/03/2023

Favourite biscuits of Leo Tolstoy 🙏

🥮Leo Tolstoy adored the
gingerbread with almonds.

This recipe originated in the kitchen of Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia Andreyevna. Since then, this vegetarian gingerbread has remained a favorite in the Tolstoy family. ❤️

🏠Yasnaya Polyana is the famous estate of one of the greatest 19th century Russian writers, Leo Tolstoy.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Among its idyllic beauty and serenity, he penned some of the world’s greatest literary masterpieces, studied pedagogy and, of course, spent a lot of time with his family.

🍲Proper nutrition was a priority at the Tolstoy estate. For example, every day the family always ate at the same time. And every day, the writer's wife, Sophia, set the menu that the cook had to prepare for the next day.

🧑‍🍳Sometimes, however, Sophia had to cook for the whole family herself.

Sophia was a warm and enthusiastic hostess. She bought kitchen utensils that were expensive for that time, subscribed to home economics magazines and even compiled her own cookbook, which was never published during her life.🍽️

📖It has been lying in the family archive for more than a 100 years and only recently became known to the public.

🥗The book has 162 recipes. They are considered a model of balanced and proper home nutrition. After Leo Tolstoy became a vegetarian, Sophia eagerly embraced this diet.

Zhamki is one of the recipes from Sophia’s cookbook that’s suitable for a vegetarian diet.👍

🥮In the Tula Region zhamki is still the name of small gingerbread.

This name comes from the verb "to squeeze", (in Russian ‘zhat’’), because of the process when making this sweet delight: unlike the famous mass-produced Tula gingerbread, the small gingerbread was made by squeezing with one’s hands.🫴🏻

🤨Suzdal cucumber jam: interesting…. 🫙When the cucumber crop is harvested, it's time to pickle and marinate them. But Rus...
02/03/2023

🤨Suzdal cucumber jam: interesting….

🫙When the cucumber crop is harvested, it's time to pickle and marinate them. But Russians also cook a jam from cucumbers.

📍Though, such a dessert you can find only in the Vladimir Region, in Suzdal (about 180 km east of Moscow).

“Varenye” (jam) is an old Russian word meaning "boiled delicacy". Housewives prepare it in almost every corner of Russia.🥣

🫐So many different ingredients can be used when cooking it! In addition to the usual berries and fruits, you can find the most unusual combinations, for example, jam from carrots and calendula buds, or jam from young pine cones. And yes, cucumbers are also used. 😅

🍯The traditions associated with this sweet delicacy are long-standing. According to contemporaries, Ivan the Terrible was very fond of cucumber jam with honey.

🥒Gardening and farming have long been very popular among the inhabitants of Suzdal. In Soviet times, the people of Suzdal sold their cucumber products throughout Russia.

👏🏼Another fascinating fact is that one of Suzdal’s favorite summer holidays, which today is a hallmark of the city, is the famous Cucumber Day. Usually it’s celebrated on the third Saturday of July.

So if you are ever in Suzdal (one of the Golden Ring cities) , try a cucumber jam. It’s a unique dessert that could be found only there.🤫

Russian apple dessert: BELEVSKAYA PASTILA. Pastila, airy puffs with a delicate apple flavor, first appeared in Russia du...
19/01/2023

Russian apple dessert: BELEVSKAYA PASTILA.
 
Pastila, airy puffs with a delicate apple flavor, first appeared in Russia during the reign of Ivan the Terrible.

👍It was a kind of medieval way to preserve the harvest. Today, we’ll show you how to bake this delicate dessert at home.

👩🏻‍🍳Ingredients:
Apple – 2 kg
Powdered sugar – 3 tablespoons
Egg whites – 4 piece

1. Put clean whole apples directly on a baking sheet. Bake them at an average temperature of about 40-50 minutes (depending on the size of apples). 🔥

🫕Then peel the apples while they are warm from the seeds and partitions and make a puree by blender.

2. Then we separate the yolks from whites. Whip the whites with a pinch of salt until it becomes thick and foamy. 🥚

3. We shift the whites into the puree, while not forgetting to set aside a few tablespoons of whites for sticking the layers.🥣

4. Take a baking sheet. We cover it with parchment paper. Then spread the puree so that the thickness is no more than 3-4 cm. We put it in the oven at a temperature of 90 degrees. Dry for 5-6 hours.⏳

5. After 6 hours, we take out the baking sheet. We cut the layer into 4 parts. 🔪

Lubricate them with the additional whipped whites. We put layers on top of each other. Dry for 3-4 hours.

6. We take out the finished dessert and sprinkle it with powdered sugar so that it does not stick.🥮

❄️The pastille should be stored in the refrigerator.

😋Try how delicious it is!

Soviet traditions which still alive🤫The Soviet period gave birth to a particular living style practiced by many generati...
10/01/2023

Soviet traditions which still alive🤫

The Soviet period gave birth to a particular living style practiced by many generations ahead. Many of traditions are still a part of Russians’ lives.❤️

Cleaning rugs in the snow❄️

😅The Soviet obsession with rugs was funny. They lay not only on the floor but played a role of wall ornaments. But they were dust collectors…

👆🏻Special constructions would be seen not too far from children’s playgrounds - a sort of metal clothesline (many remain to this day) to clean rugs.

Winters are especially convenient for cleaning rugs, as you could clean it using snow in a fresh air. Some people still clean them this way.😂

🎨Painting half of the walls in buildings - and only in green or blue  
🤷🏻‍♀️This strange tradition was first explained by economic necessity: the paint would reach to the height of an adult person’s face. It was enough to protect the walls from dirt.

🏥This was a practice observed more in public space: hospitals, entrances, houses of culture. Why it was green or blue, this is a big question, I don’t know. May be those colors were cheaper.

😅Nowadays, state buildings in small cities, towns or villages could still use this method of printing.

🧹Saturday free of charge community service SUBBOTNIK
‘Subbotnik’ - became a tradition during the Soviet period. People gathered one Saturday in May for cleaning the territory of schools, factories, offices where they worked or studied.

👍This tradition is still alive and people decide which day they meet and they all clean the territory together.

Soviet holidays:

🎇New Years Eve is still the main holiday instead of Christmas. As I told you before, Christmas was prohibited in the Soviet Union and only few years Christmas is getting more audience.

🌷8th of March- International Womens day- all men are staying in queues for flowers as there is a tradition to give flowers to all women and girls.

I think this tradition will never die. Russian women will not let it happen.❤️

Tatyana Bakalchuk, the RICHEST woman in Russia.👏🏻A mother of four, Korean origin and a former English language teacher, ...
13/12/2022

Tatyana Bakalchuk, the RICHEST woman in Russia.

👏🏻A mother of four, Korean origin and a former English language teacher, Tatyana Bakalchuk set up a Russian version of Amazon from scratch and, in 2021, became the Russia’s richest woman.

😓It is autumn and it’s raining 2004. Tatyana Bakalchuk, travels by public transport - first by metro, then by bus, then 10 minutes by feet - to collect yet another 20 kg parcel of clothes from Germany….

She launched an online platform called Wildberries the same year in 2004, still being on the maternity leave. 🫢

📦Before Wildberries, practically no clothing was being sold on the internet in Russia.

Initially, their office was their flat, which was completely cluttered with boxes of merchandise. 📤

🫣Tatyana was the business’s first call agent, as well as its courier, administrator and owner.

🔝In terms of a business growth in the year of the pandemic 2021, she came second among the billionaires around the world.

The next revolutionary move was a free delivery and collection points with fitting rooms all over the country - no-one had done the same in Russia before.👍🏻

📈Bakalchuk’s wealth increased by 1,200 percent and became $13 billion in 2021.

The export turnover of Wildberries also grew - by 89 percent in 2021.

🔝There have been medical masks, sugar-free pastila confectionery, peanut butter, diapers, T-shirts and the book, “History of Russia for Children” among the top items of delivery.

5 interesting facts about kokoshnikThe Russian traditional costume has many interesting elements, most of all I love kok...
01/12/2022

5 interesting facts about kokoshnik

The Russian traditional costume has many interesting elements, most of all I love kokoshnik.

It is a symbol of my company as well.

This unusual headdress has long been a symbol of the national history, expressed in clothing.

🔺The name of a female headdress from a traditional

Russian costume comes from the word "kokosh" — a rooster, a hen, which reflects its shape resembling the crest of this bird.

🔺One of the popular versions of the appearance of the kokoshnik is the Byzantine.

Even in antiquity, noble Greek women decorated their hairstyles with tiaras. During the period of active trade between Russia and Byzantium, the daughters of princes could get acquainted with Byzantine fashion.

🔺Kokoshnik has many options. The shapes depend on the Russian region.

🔺Kokoshniks were expensive. They were made by craftsmen using expensive materials - expensive fabric was embroidered with gold and silver threads, and pearls were often used among the jewelry.

That is why kokoshniks were inherited and stored in a special way so as not to damage them.

🔺The kokoshnik era was temporarily interrupted under Peter the Great.

He banned their wearing in court dresses as part of the fight against remnants of the past and the policy of Europeanization.

However, after many years of forgetting Kokoshnik at the highest level in the Russian Empire, it still managed to return.

This happened with the initiative of Nicholas I, who in 1834 issued a decree introducing a new court dress for ladies-in-waiting.

🌍Leo Tolstoy is known all over the world. 10 interesting facts about Tolstoy: 1.🔸Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828, and died ...
08/11/2022

🌍Leo Tolstoy is known all over the world.

10 interesting facts about Tolstoy:

1.🔸Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828, and died in 1910 (lived 82 years). Married at the age of 34 to 18-year-old Sofia Andreevna.

They had 13 children, five of whom died in childhood.

2. 🔹Tolstoy's wife was a real hostess and conducted her household an excellent way.

Sofya Andreevna (Tolstoy's wife), copied almost all of her husband's works in order to send manuscripts to the publishing house.

This was necessary because no editor could have deciphered the great writer's handwriting.

3. 🔸The diary of Tolstoy L.N. 7. All significant works ("War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "Resurrection")
Leo Tolstoy wrote after his marriage. He did not engage in serious writing until the age of 34.

4. 🔹Tolstoy had excellent command of English, French and German.

5. 🔸The novel "War and Peace" was written for 6 years, and then corresponded 8 more times.

Tolstoy rewrote individual fragments up to 25 times.

6.🔹Tolstoy denied the Orthodox Church. He read vedic books. His Indian friends and colleagues were sending him vedic journals.

7.🔸Tolstoy's notions of living in poverty led to serious problems in the relationship with his wife.

He was going to give up copyrights, which were the main source of income for the family.

8. 🔹It is interesting that Tolstoy had a serious influence on the outstanding and world-famous Indian figure Mahatma Gandhi.

9. 🔸In his old age, Lev Nikolaevich often walked barefoot, emphasizing his closeness to the people.

10.🔹In the early morning of October 31 2010, Tolstoy secretly ran away from home to live the rest of his life alone.

It happened after another breakup with his wife.

However, on the way he fell ill with pneumonia and died in the house of the Railway station manager.

The last meaningful words he uttered were: "I love a lot, I love everyone...".

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