Is there really such a thing? Russian women have been coined with this phrase for decades. The term Mail Order Bride goes back to the early settlers of America. Men would come to America and start a new life, but didn’t have a wife. At some point, a company organized a trade and brought several [...]
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Scammed by a Russian Bride
If you read my blog, you know that I don’t write anything negative about Russian women. But I think this is one of many western men’s concerns that needs to be addressed. The following is a true story that happened to an acquaintance. He had met a Russian woman. We’ll call him Greg and the [...]
Learning Russian
I have been practicing some Russian lately. I blogged an article a couple weeks ago about common Russian words and phrases. I have been trying to learn some simple phrases in the evenings with my wife and with a couple web sites I think I mentioned. I think it helps to drink a shot of [...]
Learn Some Russian
Words and phrases of everyday use English Russian (transliteration) Hello! — Zd’rastvuyte (formal) Hi! — Priviet! (informal) Goodbye! — Da svi’daniya (formal) Bye! — Pa ‘ka! (informal) Good morning — Dobroye utro Good afternoon — Dobryi vecher Good evening — Dobryi vecher Good night — Spokoinoi nochi Yes — Da No — Nyet Thank you [...]
A Little Ekaterinburg History
The city was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and named after Saint Catherine, the namesake of tsar Peter the Great’s wife Catherine (Yekaterina). It was renamed Sverdlovsk after the Bolshevik party leader and Soviet official Yakov Sverdlov from 1924 to 1991. Soon after the Russian Revolution, on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his [...]
