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Cossack Lunch in Medvedovskaya Village
Two-hundred years ago Tsarina Catherine II granted the land in southern Russia to the Cossacks. In day to day life, these people were faced with one difficult task – defending the State’s Azov-Black Sea borders. To this very day, the traditions of the Kuban Cossacks are kept in these Krasnodar villages. During his journey around the south of Russia, RTG TV host Stanislav Salnikov learned how to prepare Cossack-style carp, got the recipe for makovnik (a sweet poppy seed cake) and found out what zavivanets is. He then tried all of these dishes in a traditional Cossack house, a structure that helps illustrate perfectly how Cossacks lived on these lands 200 years ago.
The St. Petersburg Puppet Theater. The Road to Childhood
A strong impression received in one’s childhood is preserved in our memories like a journey into childhood. This was also true with the puppet master Yevgeny Demmeni. Having seen a puppet show at the age of five, he bore this memory with him into adult life, and made it his calling. Demmeni’s work lives on to this day. It’s a puppet theater that operates in the very center of ST. Petersburg, and for the locals, and for visitors to the city, for a hundred years, it has been a path back into childhood. Russia’s first professional puppet theater, in a new film by RTG TV.
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The St. Petersburg Puppet Theater. The Road to Childhood
The horn orchestra of Russia
The Horn Orchestra of Russia promotes the tradition of national music while playing quite unique instruments – horns. In Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was to the sounds of these soulful, captivating musical horns that emperors were crowned, and events such as great masquerades, diplomatic meetings and military marches were held. Throughout most of the 20th century horn music was believed to be a disappearing craft and the art of making the horns was considered lost. It was only at the beginning of the 21st century that listeners came to hear these sounds again. Two-hundred years ago this musical miracle with its deep, velvety sound was dubbed “the Russian organ” in countries abroad and to this day, there is no instrument and sound comparable to Russia’s special horn.
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