July | 2009 | English Russia

Categories Culture, History, Russian People

Samuel Collins, an Englishman, who was a doctor of tsar Alexis of Russia (the 17th century) and spent nine years at his court, wrote a letter to his friend, describing in what environment he lived and what weird traditions Russians had back then.

Neither men, nor women dare forget to wear a belt under pains and penalties of heaven. They do not whistle using their lips (it’s considered to be inappropriate), but do this with their teeth, and that is very strange.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Photos, Russian Nature, Society

These days Kiev's downtown has turned into a small lake where everyone could give a bath to his car or

just wander around shoeless. People seemed to enjoy the situation and even smiled a lot.

Categories Funny, Photos, Russian Nature, Technology

Just eighty-five kilometers (fifty miles) away from Moscow city there is a hill of

white, that is absolutely alien to Russian birch-and-oak scenery.

Categories Automotive, Funny, Photos, Russian Art, Technology

For sure the owner of this highly modded Russian car would light his way up the

Russian roads with so much additional stuff installed on the vehicle.

Categories Photos

Palmyra of the North, St. Petersburg, has a tram system of record length. There are 2402 trams working in the city now

(the data is from September, 2006) on 64 routes. The total length of the tram road is more than 690 km.

Categories Culture, History, Photos, Russian Art, Society

„Seven sister project” in Moscow is one of most ambitious projects in mid-20th century. Between 1947 and 1953 on the orders

of Jozef Stalin they built seven similar skyscrapers that were meant to be rivals to USA’s skyscrapers.

Categories Funny, Photos, Video

Sometimes the buildings need showers too. In this case the underground high pressure water pipes come in very handy. When they become too

worn out they demand some attention and complain about this to houses in a furious fountain way. There is a video inside too.

Categories Funny, History, Photos, Russian People

Lenin was absolutely indifferent to alcohol, from time to time he threw back just a few German beers or a glass of Italian chianti. He would also refuse Russian strong drinks flatly and just hated drunk people. He was also a strong advocate of the dry law, which was carried into force in 1914. He had a horror of drunk soldiers with guns, and used to say that Russian would drown the revolution in vodka. The Vodka

Museum supervisor Alexander Nikishin says, that in 1917 Lenin was really shocked when he was driving by some vodka distillery ruined by soldiers and saw them kneeling down and liking the spirits flowing out right from the ground. Soon after this he ordered to shoot all marauders who dared to make an attempt on liquids. In his view, only sober proletarians of all countries could unite.

Categories Fiction, Photos, Russian army, Technology

Now Russia has its own stealth jet bomber. They promise to have it here already this year and start producing it in series starting 2010. They tell that the design of

the plane is still kept secret and those sketches are the only clue that people have, but as it is known it would be a decent F-22 competitor.

Categories Exclusive, History

On 14 (26) of May, 1896 in the morning all the stalls and shops in Moscow were closed and there were no pedestrians and carriages at all -- the city seemed almost deserted. But in fact, thousands and thousands of people gathered near the Kremlin and

were waiting for the new emperor to be crowned. The area around the Kremlin was flooded with local people and guests of the city, some of them were just standing, and some of them were sitting in the amphitheatre around the square.

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