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English to Russian Translation and Visa-Versa

Something that came to mind that is very important when searching out your Russian bride is translation. I was fortunate enough to find a Russian woman who already could read and write English and as well, speak some English (albeit a little rough). You on the other hand are gambling to hopefully get as lucky [...]

Mail Order Brides

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Comparison of Mother’s Day and Women’s Day

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 [...]

Russian Women – Are They Really That Hot?

The simple answer is YES! You can try to compare them to American women, but they are just so different. I’ve dated many American women, lived with an American woman and was married to an American woman in my lifetime. The differences are really not comparable. But I guess the most obvious is in their [...]