Did you know that it is possible to catch, hold and even play with a soap bubble?
Video: Pictures On The Sand
Август 31st, 2010 
Anastasia This video shows the winner of «Ukraine ’s Got Talent», Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about Ј75,000.
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
How To Apply Vodka
Август 31st, 2010 Anastasia 
Vodka is the first thing what people of other countries think of when they are asked to tell what they know about Russia. You think that vodka can be only drunk? That’s not true. Unlike Scottish whisky or Japanese sake vodka is multifunctional. Here are at least a few ways how vodka can be used.
1. Vodka is good for getting rid of scruff. Here is the recipe:
one glass of vodka + 2 teaspoons of powdered rosemary. Leave it for 2 days then filter it through coffee-grounds. Rub it on your head skin slowly, don’t wash it away. Alcohol will clean the skin from scruff and toxins and helps your hair growth.
Some Short Moscow Legends
Август 31st, 2010 Anastasia Ploshchad’ Revolyutsii, The Subway Station
1. Sculpture “Scout with a dog”. Students have coming to it to ask for luck since 1938. They rub the dog’s nose to pass the test, or its paw to pass the exam.
2. The day will be financially successful if one touches the chekist’s gun.
3. Do not rub the bronze rooster especially its nib else something bad may happen
An Unknown Animal?
Subway As A Paleontological Museum. Photos Of Remains
Август 31st, 2010 Anastasia There’s a lot written and said about Moscow subway. There are many books and articles about its history and architecture. But the subway is also a paleontological museum. Ammonites, nautiluses, corals, sea lilies lived in seas many millions years ago and now you can see inhabitants of ancient seas on the subway’s walls and columns coated with marble and limestone and you don’t need a loupe to see some of the creatures.
Where To Find
Rasputin’s Museum
Август 31st, 2010 Anastasia 
The Rasputin’s museum was opened in Pokrovskoye (Tyumen region) where Grigoriy Rasputin was born. It is his reconstructed home, that was destroyed in Soviet times because the government was afraid of tourists who could be interested in this person. So now, everybody is welcome.
Oh by the way, there is a chair that Rasputin presented to a groom and said that when that groom sits down on it and think of him (Rasputin), the chair will give him (the groom) sexual energy for the rest of his life. Hurry, the chair is old and everyone may want to sit on it.
Some Of Russian Superstitious Beliefs
Август 31st, 2010 Anastasia 
There are very many of them and these are the ones I know and follow:
If you hiccup, it means somebody is thinking about you
If anything is lost, say “Devil, play with it and give back”
A spider in the house – to good money
Many flies in the house – to a decedent (before my grandma passed away in January a few years ago, we had many flies in our apartment in late autumn (October, November). We killed 20 flies a day during a week or a two. That was strange).
In January 2008 I’ve Been To Three Monasteries
Август 31st, 2010 Anastasia The Temple In Honor Of The Icon Of Kazanskaya Holy Mother
Nikolo-Ugreshskiy Monastery
Underground Moscow. Part 2. Dungeon Tales
Август 31st, 2010 Anastasia …Next time they found bones of an unknown big animal but the culmination was a ghost of a woman that appeared in a small concrete chamber where the tunnel led…
This is the second part of the Underground Moscow post series. The first article “Underground Moscow. Part 1. Dungeon History” tells about the history of the Underground Moscow and some general facts.
Moscow diggers explored 12 levels and 24 sublevels of Underground Moscow, namely Moscow subway, subway-2, drainage systems, bunker systems, nuclear reactors, master mines and many other objects. On the 10th level there are Neolithic caves, then Moscow sea in the karst cavities. The 12th level contains unexplored pilot objects. So Moscow is dug along and across.
