27 December 2005

Do you know that Russians are probably the only ones who get to celebrate winter seasonal holidays more times then anyone else ?! The history goes back to 1500-something years, when the Gregorian calendar has been introduced to Europe. Orthodox Russia was still using older Julian calendar, up until the Revolution of 1917, when the […]

Today I woke up and looked outside the windows – surprise! – the sun was shining over the lawn powdered with a bit of flour! No, I do not mean that our neighbours came stealthily under the cover of the night to spread their kitchen supplies over our garden, but it was a real snow-kind