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11-08-2017, 02:54 PM
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The Saint Petersburg and Moscow State Orchestras, two of the best in the world.
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11-08-2017, 03:25 PM
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Location: New York
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You're all forgetting the most significant gift they gave us: Russian dressing.
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11-08-2017, 03:25 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Middle England
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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
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11-09-2017, 04:16 AM
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And, of course, that zany Russian parlor game, Russian Roulette.
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11-09-2017, 03:44 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: Gloucestershire, UK
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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
:-)
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11-09-2017, 05:33 PM
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Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Brodsky.
Solzhenitsyn.
Pasternak.
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11-09-2017, 05:36 PM
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Location: Halcott, New York
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Tsvetaeva
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11-11-2017, 10:47 PM
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kalashnikov ak47
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11-12-2017, 12:01 AM
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Yes, that is certainly Russian, and it's been provided to the world.
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