Posts under ‘Russian Traditions’

Sometimes I think vodka is man’s best friend. Yes dogs do own this saying, but vodka sure is giving dogs a run for their bones.
Not only can you drink it numerous ways - cocktails or neat as I prefer it. But recently, we had a real medicinal need for it. And no, it’s not a [...]

Stopped at one of the Russian grocery stores in Denver last weekend. I noticed that they had chocolate bars from the Red October candy factory in Moscow, so I picked up a couple.

Here in the USA, we honor or Mother’s In May every year. In other parts of the world, they have International Women’s Day on March 8th.
In the USA, Mother’s Day always falls on a Sunday. It is a national holiday, but being on Sunday, most here don’t work either.
Russia celebrates women by giving chocolates and [...]

The way of life in Russia is very simple. Russians love to eat black bread with salted herring and drink vodka.
The Russian mafia is in charge of everything.
Russian women are the most beautiful in the world.
The sub-zero cold winters are impossible to survive.
The university professors have to sell matryoshkas to foreigners to survive.
Playing balalaika and [...]

Is this the place where grown men sit naked, wear a strange hat, drink vodka, beat each other with sticks and run out of a nice warm building into the cold frigid snow or into a lake of freezing water? Yes it most certainly is. Sounds just a little more on the strange side than [...]