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StPetersburgromanov The mission of “StPetersburgRomanov_tours” is to unfold the luxury and imperial splendor of the

03/01/2022

Today I was honored to guide a group of extremely knowledgeable diplomats from the British embassy in Moscow. The topic of the tour was very specific - the Decembrists’ revolt of 1825.

I am always impressed when foreigners are interested in Russian history and are so good at it. Bravo! Thank you so much for your feedback! I appreciate a lot! 🤩

(🎥 Alf Torrents, Executive Director of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce)

03/01/2022

Happy New Year my dear friends!🎄🥳🎊
May all your dreams come true!🤩

𝗔 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆⠀🐻Another reason Russia was associated with bears in the eyes of Europeans was a famous bear academy ...
03/01/2022

𝗔 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆
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🐻Another reason Russia was associated with bears in the eyes of Europeans was a famous bear academy that was established in the 17th century in the town of Smorgon. Calling it an academy was probably a bit ambitious for what was really just a private school that trained bears for circuses throughout Europe.
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🗺And it did not matter that at the time Smorgon was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The average European was not particularly bothered with geographical accuracy. They knew that it was somewhere in the east, and they knew that somewhere in the east was Russia.
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇷🇺🐻It is therefore not surprising that when England began to produce political cartoons and engravings in the 19th century, Russia was always depicted in them as a bear.

My dear friends💝💝💝, 🎨Art is a combination of life, history, emotions and experience. Everyone is a painter of his/her ow...
24/12/2021

My dear friends💝💝💝,

🎨Art is a combination of life, history, emotions and experience. Everyone is a painter of his/her own life. We draw the patterns of our destinies like an artist draws a picture. I wish you an amazing pattern with exciting twists and pleasant feelings, with interesting meetings and unforgettable memories.

Don’t let anything or anybody prevent your dreams from coming true! Be crazy, be unique and be creative! May angels help you on your way to catch your star👼🌟!

Merry Christmas‼️🎄🎅🏻🤶
I hope Santa will bring you the best gift in your life‼️🎁

Yours faithfully,
Oksana Romanova👑

21/12/2021

It was -14°c today but it didn’t prevent my tourist from Turkey from enjoying St.Petersburg. 😊 She got overwhelmed by its architecture and by its history, intrigued by juicy details of the life of the courtiers and impressed by delicious Russian food.

I invite you to come and see by your own eyes the beauty of the imperial city‼️

𝗔 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀(Part III)⠀💰🍯These days, most likely, everything would start with a viral meme on social media, but...
07/12/2021

𝗔 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀
(Part III)
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💰🍯These days, most likely, everything would start with a viral meme on social media, but back then the original source was advertising by shrewd English merchants. From the mid-16th century, these merchants regularly visited Russia.
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🍯🐻Meanwhile, ordinary British people's idea of Russia was shaped by the exports coming from there: honey, furs, wool, fat, wax, and what inhabitants of good old England believed to be bear’s grease. In other words, bear’s grease did to the image of Russia what croissants did to the image of Paris.
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🐻Merchants promoted Russian bear grease as the best remedy for hair loss. On what grounds? Well, on the grounds that bears are very hairy. The fact that grease came from far away in Russia explained the exorbitant price.
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👨‍🦲In fact, what was sold and marketed as bear's grease was sometimes just English pig fat, but English gentlemen were far too preoccupied with curing their embarrassing baldness, and so the power of advertising was left to do its thing...
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(To be continued...)

𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗸𝗼𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗶⠀🥮The first korovais appeared at Russian weddings in pagan times. Bread made from golden corn, baked in t...
06/12/2021

𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗸𝗼𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗶
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🥮The first korovais appeared at Russian weddings in pagan times. Bread made from golden corn, baked in the shape of the sun, was a symbol of good luck and a life of abundance.
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🥮To make the wedding korovai water was drawn from 7 different wells and flour taken from 7 different sacks. Only married women who were happy in marriage and had brought up healthy children were allowed to bake this bread.
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🥮The size of the korovai was also important: the larger and more luxuriant it was, the better the life it presaged for the newlyweds.
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💋After the ceremony the mother of the bride would take the bread to the couple who would kiss it 3 times. After this the bread was cut up into pieces and given to all the guests.

05/12/2021

𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘆
(Part II)
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🐻What is true in this whole bear story is the fact that bears have indeed been venerated in Russia since ancient times. For pagan Slavs, the bear was in effect a totem animal.
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🐻It is also known that for several centuries in the Middle Ages, troupes travelled all around Russia with tame bears that were trained to dance, do simple tricks and beg.
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🐻One of bears' main “vocations” at that time was performing ex*****ons. This had been practiced for a long time, but it was under Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century that bear ex*****ons went mainstream.
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😱Sometimes bears were used indirectly in the ex*****on process: a convict would be sewn up into a bear skin and then dogs would be set on him, tearing apart the bear skin along with the unlucky guy inside.
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🤦🏼‍♀️And yet, it wasn’t these horror stories that spread around the world so easily. In 1526, an Austrian diplomat named Siegmund von Herberstein wrote the following about the winter in Russia:
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"Bears, driven by hunger, left the woods, ran around neighboring villages and broke into houses; at the sight of them, villagers fled their houses and died of cold, a pitiful death."
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🤷🏼‍♀️This account was then copied by numerous Italian, Polish, British, German and Dutch travelers to Russia over the next hundred years, and in the process the notion that bears roam Russian streets started to be considered something normal and regular.
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But it wasn’t only Herberstein’s fault...
(To be continued...)

05/12/2021

𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿 “𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝘀, 𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀”
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🏛If you would like to learn more about Russian customs, rituals and traditions as well as traditions of other peoples inhabited the Russian empire, you are welcome to book our tour “Customs, rituals and festivities”.
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🏛During this tour you will visit the most interesting Russian museum of Ethnography where you will make an exciting journey into Siberia, the North Caucasus, the Far East, the Middle Asia and so on.
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🏛A licensed guide will show you traditional dwellings, national attire, tell about the peculiarities of life and the way of celebrating festivities.
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💎👑Moreover, our agency will arrange for you a visit to the gorgeous Jewelry Treasury situated there which consists of over 10.000 authentic items like gold embroideries, tableware, ceremonial weapons and cult objects handed by the last Russian tsar Nicolas II and other members of the Romanov dynasty.
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☎️So grab your chance and call us or text on WhatsApp and book the tour! 🤩
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🔝We provide for our guests only an exclusive service!
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Sincerely yours,
CEO of StPetersburgRomanov
travel lux club
Oksana Romanova

𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹⠀🧵🪡Pieces of decoratively embroidered fabric - a towel-is a necessary item for any folk festival or ceremon...
05/12/2021

𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹
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🧵🪡Pieces of decoratively embroidered fabric - a towel-is a necessary item for any folk festival or ceremony even nowadays.
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🤵🏻👰🏼White towels with red embroidery have been made particularly often for weddings.
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🛷These towels were used to decorate wedding carts and were given as gifts to the bride’s family.
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🥧Icons were also presented on the towels to bless the newlyweds, along with the wedding “korovai” (a big pie) which was a symbol of family abundance.
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🤵🏻👰🏼During the wedding ceremony the bride and groom took their first step together standing on this ceremonial towel.
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🧿According to folk beliefs, the embroidery on these towels protected the newlyweds from the evil eye and corrupting influences, and themselves represented a sign of the strength of the relationship.
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🤝Wedding towels were carefully kept by the couple and handed down from generation to generation...

04/12/2021

𝗘𝘅𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵
(Part I)
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🗺The first depictions of bears as features of Russia appeared in the 16th century European maps. One of the finest examples of them was “Carta marina” (sea map) made by Swedish diplomat and writer Olaus Magnus in 1539.
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🐻But the depiction of those bears lacked any satirical or ideological meaning. Europeans considered Russia to be a northern country and a bear to be an exotic northern animal.
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🧊There is an interesting fact that the word Arctic comes from the Greek word
ἄρκτος (árktos) which means “bear” and “the north”.
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📜🐻👹But at the same time in 1570 the book about allegories was written by the Benedictine monk Jerónimo Lloret (Hieronymus Lauretus). It became classical for the baroque epoch. In this book North was described as the center of evil and sins and its symbol was a bear.
Probably, that book became the source of the further negative connotation of the image of a bear.
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At the same time there were other things to blame.... (to be continued)

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