Last Sunday all people celebrated Shrovetide (a Pancake Week). In Russian Shrovetide is called Maslyenitsa. It is one of the most ancient festivals of Slavonic people.

People in Starozhilovo celebrated this festival too. They wore different costumes. Some people were on the stage and showed other people a funny performance. They sang Russian songs, organized different competitions like - who can lift a weight up. Peopl ... Read more »

Russian music is clearly enjoying huge popularity. The most popular kind of instruments in Russia were string instruments such as gusli, balalayka, other popular instruments were buben, treshchotka. Though a few people can play these instruments nowadays, Russian people don't forget russian traditions and let this kind of music survive to the present days.
One of the most famous kind of music now is classical music. Such russian composers like Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Rakhman ... Read more »