Russia’s Imperial capital for nearly two centuries, St. Petersburg delights with it’s unparalleled profusion of arts and culture. From mesmerizing fine arts and architecture, to world class opera, ballet and classical music, to a dynamic contemporary art scene, to spirited summer concerts and festivals – regardless of your artistic inclinations...
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Lying on the banks of the Kura (Mtkvari) River, amid the foothills of the Trialeti mountain range, Tbilisi is Georgia’s capital and largest city with a population of roughly 1.5 million inhabitants (more than a third of the nation’s citizens). Historically, due to its location at the crossroads of trade, culture and religion, it has long been a site of...
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Ethnic Russian and Ukrainian clothing is a derivative of both practicality and creativity. Many of the garments associated with Russia and Ukraine were simply founded as the best possible means to stay warm. The fur and sheep skin coat (shuba and dublyonka), warm fur and wool hats (ushanka,papakha and budenovka), as well as the wool felt footwear (valenki), are all...
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Traditional Russian folk dance is as broad and diverse as the nation itself. While most foreigners identify traditional Russian dance with the stomping and and knee bending characteristic of Eastern Slavic dance styles, many forget about traditions of dance that originated from Turkic, Uralic, Mongolic and Caucasian peoples who are also native to Russia. Below we...
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