Гжель Gzhel
Cobalt-blue flowers painted on white porcelain, named after the villages of Gzhel near Moscow.
Немно́го Росси́и
Read your first Russian words in the wild, and meet the culture behind the language: crafts, the calendar, proverbs.
Can you read these?
Tap a card to check. Letters that look English often are, and the ones that are not are your first lesson.
Немно́го Росси́иA taste of Russia
Six things you will meet in class and in your texts. Tap a card to read about it.
Proverb of the week, посло́вица
Повторе́ние — мать уче́ния.
Repetition is the mother of learning.
The reason Daily 10 exists.
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Наро́дные про́мыслыFolk crafts
Хохлома́ Khokhloma
Red berries and golden leaves on black, painted on wooden bowls and spoons in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Па́лех Palekh
Tiny fairy-tale scenes in gold and colour on black lacquer boxes, from the village of Palekh.
Жо́стово Zhostovo
Bright bouquets painted on black metal trays, from the village of Zhostovo near Moscow.
Ру́сский годThe Russian year
1 января́
Но́вый год
New Year: the biggest holiday of the year, with a tree and Дед Моро́з.
7 января́
Рождество́
Orthodox Christmas.
late winter
Ма́сленица
A week of blini before Lent; the date moves each year.
8 ма́рта
Восьмо́е ма́рта
International Women's Day: flowers for the women in your life.
12 апре́ля
День космона́втики
Gagarin's flight in 1961: you read his story in Month 12.
9 ма́я
День Побе́ды
Remembers the end of the war in Europe in 1945.
1 сентября́
День зна́ний
The first day of the school year.