[ kastrama ]
🔻The official founding year of the city is 1152 by Yury Dolgoruky. Since many scholars believe that early Eastern Slavs tribes arrived in modern-day Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia AD 400 to 600, Kostroma could be much older than previously thought.
🔻The city has the same name as the East Slavic goddess Kostroma.
🔻In 1773, Kostroma was devastated by a great fire. Afterwards the city was rebuilt with streets radiating from a single focal point near the river.
🔻The heroic peasant Иван Сусанин (Ivan Susanin) became a symbol of the city's resistance to foreign invaders of WW2.
🔻What to see in Kostroma:
• Museum of Wooden Architecture
• The Resurrection Church on the Debra
• Sweets Museum Russkiye Slasti
• Monastery of st Ipaty
• Cheese Museum
• Terem Snegurochki
• Epiphany Monastery of St. Anastasia
• Ostrovsky's Pavilion
• Museum of Flax and Bark
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#Russian_gems
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[ el'broos v loochakh zakata ]
🇬🇧 Elbrus in the sunset.
📍Location: Kabardino-Balkaria Russia
Video by: krasfit88
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Just one urgent question❗
🤔 Which video was shot first: that with the girls or the one with the chickens?
• Курица (femin.noun, offensive in reference to a girl!)
[ kooritsa ]
• Курочка (deminutive)
[ koorachka ]
• Цыпа (short from 'цыплёнок' (chick))
[ tsypa ]
• Цыпочка (deminutive, mostly about girls)
[ tsypachka ]
🇬🇧 Either a chicken/hen or a girl
There's also a Russian folk fairy tale character:
• Курочка-ряба
[ koorachka ryaba ]
🇬🇧 Ryaba the hen ('Ряба' is from the adjective 'рябая' [ r'yabaya ] 'speckled')
🎧🗣 👇 listen, practice and call your girlfriend/wife 'цыпочка'))
#useful_vocabulary
#spoken_Russian
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• Курица (femin.noun, offensive in reference to a girl!)
[ kooritsa ]
• Курочка (deminutive)
[ koorachka ]
• Цыпа (short from 'цыплёнок' (chick))
[ tsypa ]
• Цыпочка (deminutive, mostly about girls)
[ tsypachka ]
🇬🇧 Either a chicken/hen or a girl
There's also a Russian folk fairy tale character:
• Курочка-ряба
[ koorachka ryaba ]
🇬🇧 Ryaba the hen ('Ряба' is from the adjective 'рябая' [ r'yabaya ] 'speckled')
🎧
#useful_vocabulary
#spoken_Russian
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🟠 When Russians use the phrase:
Я СТОЛЬКО НЕ ВЫПЬЮ! [ ya stol'ka ni vypyu ] literally: I won't drink that much! ?
Я СТОЛЬКО НЕ ВЫПЬЮ! [ ya stol'ka ni vypyu ] literally: I won't drink that much! ?
Anonymous Quiz
68%
When Russians wanted to flirt, but even vodka won’t help if the girl is ugly
14%
When it's time to celebrate Friday but a Russian is in a bad mood
4%
When Russians need to reveal foreign spies, who, unlike Russians, cannot drink a lot of vodka
5%
When Russians need to save someone drowning in a lake
9%
Natalie, I am totally for a healthy lifestyle!
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[ ya stol'ka ni vypyu ]
Lirerally: I won't drink that much
Meaning:
The woman (or other issues) is so ugly/bad that even vodka won't help to forget about it.
Origin:
This famous Russian phrase comes from an old anecdote:
Two friends had a little drink, and one said:
- Now we’ll go to the girls, there’s one pretty there for me, and the other one is a little ugly, but you’ll drink a bit of vodka - and it will be fine.
- Fine. Let's go!
They arrived, the doorbell rang, and there were two women at the door. The second man looked at them...
- Oh, I won’t drink that much!
🎧
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🐈⬛ Чёрный кот
[ сhornyj kot ]
🔻National Black Cat Day, observed every October 27th in the UK and Worldwide, is a special occasion dedicated to the celebration and appreciation of black cats.
🔻Historically, black cats have been at the center of various myths.
🔻However, not all cultural beliefs about black cats are negative. In places like Scotland, Britain, and Japan, the arrival or presence of a black cat signifies impending good fortune and prosperity.
🎶 There is a wonderful Soviet song about a black cat by Tamara Miansarova (1964) Listen to it!
#brief_and_interesting
#sing_it_🎵
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[ сhornyj kot ]
🔻National Black Cat Day, observed every October 27th in the UK and Worldwide, is a special occasion dedicated to the celebration and appreciation of black cats.
🔻Historically, black cats have been at the center of various myths.
🔻However, not all cultural beliefs about black cats are negative. In places like Scotland, Britain, and Japan, the arrival or presence of a black cat signifies impending good fortune and prosperity.
#brief_and_interesting
#sing_it_
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[ zima blizka ]
🇬🇧 Winter is coming!
Are there any fluffy knitted outfits in your country?
#just_a_joke
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❓Did you know that:
☕ Утренний кофе бодрит только на пятнадцать минут.
[ ootrinij kofe badrit tol'ka na pitnadtsat' minoot ]
🇬🇧 Morning coffee cheers you up only for 15 minutes.
• бодрить (imperfective)
[ badrit' ]
🇬🇧 to cheer someone up
🎧
#grammar_tips
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🇬🇧 It’s just me trying to understand from memes what’s happening in the world and what to expect (in psychotherapy I was told not to watch the news).
🤔 Could you share some memes?
#just_a_joke
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