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Cuisine of the Caucasus at the Owl's Nest Restaurant
The Owl’s Nest restaurant is scenically located on the bank of the Mzymta River, which originates in the Caucasus Mountains. The restaurant’s menu stays true to its location, featuring a variety of Caucasian foods. RTG TV host Nadezhda Lebedeva learned how to prepare those dishes typically ordered on festive occasions, including lamb roasted in a French Cinderella Pumpkin and a starter of young cucumbers marinated inside a watermelon.
Traditional Cuisine of Deerherders
Reindeer have always been considered one of nature’s greatest gifts to the Nenets, Khanty and Mansi peoples. These animals are used in many parts of their daily life. They use their hides to make clothes and build places to live, as well as use the creatures as a means of personal transport and to move heavy loads. These indigenous peoples make one of the main tools they use in reindeer breeding and herding, the «arkan», a type of lasso, by braiding together strips of deer hide. They carve knife handles, along with other household items, out of the antlers and use their tendons as a type of durable thread used to make snares and nets. In the olden days, parents even made toys for their children out of reindeer antlers. The animals’ meat and blood also play a primary role in these people’s traditional cuisine. RTG TV host Nadezhda Lebedeva travelled to Andreyevsky Lake, located 25 kilomet...
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Traditional Cuisine of Deerherders
Places of worship of the Donskoi monastery
The cathedrals of the Donskoy Monastery are home to the richest collection of religious relics connected to some of the most significant events in Russian history. From the moment of its foundation, a copy of the Our Lady of Kazan icon, which aided the Russian army in its victory over the Tatars, has been kept in the monastery’s main cathedral. The necropolis of the royal Bagrationi dynasty is also located in the cathedral’s basement. The monastery’s Maly Cathedral is fascinating for its own reason — it is here in 1992 that once-believed lost relics of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Russia, were found.
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