Russian Travel Guide

The Geography of Taste. Rye Shortcake 

Perhaps the oldest but least well known dish of Udmurtian cuisine is “perepechi”! They’re open pies made with savoury rye dough and savoury fillings. The name comes from the way they’re cooked. Perepechi were always cooked in a stove, or “pech.” But not inside the stove on open flames - they’re cooked in front of the stove, on the hearth. Embers were usually kept there to be used to light the stove up again later. When the mistress of the house would put the main dish into the stove to cook, she’d put her beloved perepechi in front of the stove – they’d cook evenly there and she’d end up with a juicy, delicious dish. To make this national Udmurtian delicacy today, you can use a stove of the 21st century – an oven. But what you definitely can’t do without are the culinary secrets of Vladimir Pavlov. The chef and host of the Geography of Taste will be showing us his variation on this tradi...

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The Petersburg classic yacht regatta

Once a year the St. Petersburg week of classical yachting gives citizens a chance to witness a true sailing race. There they can see the uncompromising battle taking place between sailors, their characters, the wind and the waves all only several hundred metres from one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Only the most prepared and close-knit team have a chance at winning. That said, predicting the results under such difficult conditions is an extremely tricky thing to do.