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• Love March 8 Like a Russian

  Blooms and chocolates… wait, isn’t Valentine’s Day over? Behold the holiday that makes the annual revenue for some flower shops and also marks the official start of spring - Russia’s perennial favorite celebration of women, the 8th of March.

  02.03.2020

• May 9: Today We Celebrate Victory Day

  There’s hardly a family in St. Petersburg that wasn’t touched by the events of 1941-1945. We don’t call it the World War II here – we call it the Great Patriotic War. To Russians, that’s just what it was: a fight for their motherland and their right to exist as a people and a nation.

  09.05.2019

• Amazing Russian Women Who Shape Our Lives

  What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than to recognize the women that inspire us to dream, care, achieve, persevere and be a force for good? Probably every Russian woman can name a few. Here're mine.

  08.03.2019

• Small Schedule for the Largest Grown-Ups Holiday!

  If you're still in school - you're really lucky (yeah, I know, it may sound crazy, but it's true), you get to have fun with so much free time during every holiday and enjoy this sweet and lax part of our lives where studying is the main activity and purpose of existence. But if you’ve already passed this beautiful era - congratulations, you're finally able to enjoy the most wonderful time of the year - winter holidays! Our small list of the must-do things for this magical adventure of week-long freedom starting from Jan 1, when we can feel like children again.

  02.01.2019

• New Year's Gifts Russian Style

  New Year is the biggest gift-giving holiday in Russia. From big-ticket items to travel-sized shampoos, it’s the time to share the joy, and get some for yourself. 

  24.12.2018

• Russian Easter: a Feast of Cheer

  Russian Orthodox Easter, one of two most important holidays in the Orthodox Calendar, will be celebrated this coming Sunday, April 8. 

  03.04.2018