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• By the Bonfire

  …tant of all, the old Russian tradition of баня (Banja); you might want to call it sauna, but it’s just so much better. Nothing like steaming at 100C with some pine tree branch massage, to then get out and take a dunk in almost cold freezing water at the lake. It was a wonderful and special trip, that I would definitely want to repeat some time in the future. Howev…

  18.05.2017

• New Year, a time for hope, celebration, and for studying

  …at least a week to take a rest from the stresses of student life, and more specifically the stresses from the "sessiya'. Now, you may be wondering, why didn’t we get any Christmas vacations in December? Well, the thing is that we did get Christmas vacations, but it wasn’t in December, it was the week during and after New Year. You see, …

  23.03.2017

• University Life Goes Beyond the Campus

  …htened persons, writers, and artists. Something interesting about the sculpture is that Ivan the Terrible is missing from the monument, the reason being his role in a terrible massacre that happened in Novgorod in the XVI century. He is instead replaced in the sculpture by his first wife Anastasia Romanova. The next place we visited inside the Kremlin is the Holy So…

  13.02.2017

• Every story has an ending, but in life endings are new beginnings

  … tell my children in a future. But then, again, every ending is a new beginning; summer holiday began, and after having experienced a very cold winter filled with snow, Christmas celebrations (Yes, celebration[s]: in Russia, orthodox Christmas is celebrated on the 7th of January. But in some places it is also celebrated on the 25th.), …

  30.09.2016