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Kyle Norwood 11-08-2017 02:54 PM

The Saint Petersburg and Moscow State Orchestras, two of the best in the world.

Roger Slater 11-08-2017 03:25 PM

You're all forgetting the most significant gift they gave us: Russian dressing.

Jayne Osborn 11-08-2017 03:25 PM

And no one's mentioned food...

Chicken Kiev
Beef Stroganoff
Blinies
Caviar

and lots of other foodstuffs I've never heard of, listed here

Jayne

Jim Moonan 11-09-2017 04:16 AM

And, of course, that zany Russian parlor game, Russian Roulette.

F.F. Teague 11-09-2017 03:44 PM

Music!

A few of my favourites:

Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, The Firebird
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on the Bare Mountain
Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade
Borodin, Polovtsian Dances
Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf

:-)

John Isbell 11-09-2017 05:33 PM

Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Brodsky.
Solzhenitsyn.
Pasternak.

R. Nemo Hill 11-09-2017 05:36 PM

Tsvetaeva

Nemo

RCL 11-11-2017 10:47 PM

kalashnikov ak47

John Isbell 11-12-2017 12:01 AM

Yes, that is certainly Russian, and it's been provided to the world.


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