🇬🇧 Such a beauty/glory in the street but you are staying at home!

• Красотища (colloquial, emphatic)
[kra-sa-ti-shcha]
<- Красота
  [ kra-sa-ta]
Beauty, loveliness, glory

#just_a_joke

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• Масленичные приметы
  [mas-li-nich-ny-ye pri-me-ty]
  Maslenitsa omens

🥞It was believed that the more pancakes you baked, the more luck, money and health your family would have that year.

🥞If you skimped on food and bake few pancakes, then finances wouldn’t be good for you.

🥞If the pancakes turned out poorly baked, this meant that difficult times, illnesses and troubles were just around the corner.

🥞During the process of baking pancakes, one had to be in a good mood, think about good deeds and wishing everyone goodness and happiness.

🥞Each housewife had her own personal recipes for pancakes for Maslenitsa, and they did not always reveal their secrets.

🥞They also believed that cold and stormy weather before the start of Maslenitsa meant a good harvest and prosperity.

🥞Girls who wanted to get married had to get drunk all the men they met on the day, because meeting a tipsy man on Maslenitsa was a good omen, promising a happy  marriage.

#Russian_holidays

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'Аптекарский огород'
[ap-te-kar-skiy a-ga-rot]

🔻It is the oldest botanical garden in Russia, founded by Peter I in 1706.

🔻It has the status of a cultural heritage site of regional significance - a monument of history and culture of Moscow, a monument of landscape gardening art of the 18th century.

🔻The garden was founded by Peter the Great in 1706 on the then northern outskirts of Moscow: the state garden for growing medicinal plants, located at the Gostiny Dvor pharmacy, was moved to this place from under the walls of the Kremlin - hence its name.

📍 Geoposition: Moscow, Russia

Video by: Евгения Сиротина @geni4ka1

#around_Russia

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- Who is 'Задрот'?
- It is the Little Bun rolling along the road: зад, рот, зад, рот...

• Зад
  [zad]
  A rude (but still decent) word for 'buttocks' - an ass.

• Рот
  [rot]
  A mouth

• Задрот
  [zad-rot]
  A nerd, a geek, a person addicted to something (eg: computer games)

#linguistic_joke

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Prince Alexander Nevsky voted in Veliky Novgorod.

• Александр  Ярославович Невский
[a-lik-sandr ye-ras-la-va-vich nef-skiy]

🔻Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (1220/1221-1263) was а great commander of Ancient Rus', the winner of the Battle of the Neva (that's when he got his second name 'Невский') and the Battle of the Ice, Prince of Novgorod, Grand Duke of Kiev and Vladimir.

🔻Vladimir Nevsky was canonized as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

🔻As a commander, he did not lose a single battle, and as a diplomat, he made peace with the most powerful enemy - the Golden Horde.

🔻Having repelled an attack from the West, Alexander defended Orthodoxy from Catholic expansion.

🔻The statue of Alexander Nevsky can be seen on the “Millennium of Russia” monument in Veliky Novgorod.

🔻Many Russian streets, avenues, parks and squares are named after Nevsky, along with trains and ships.

#brief_and_interesting

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