Windows to Russia

The Optina Hermitage (Russian: Оптина пустынь, Optina Pustyn) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery for men near Kozelsk in Russia. While much about the founding of this monastery is unknown and or not allowed public. The monastery is an extremely important spiritual center of the Orthodox Church… Most of the monastery buildings were erected at the […]

When are the people in America going to stop the US government from causing all this turmoil in other countries? Ukraine is close to my heart and I love the country. That is why I get so upset that we as a nation (USA), have been black and white proven to, hundreds of times, that […]

Hello, Today we continue reading a Stories from my Soviet Childhood what seemed so funny for me. That will be one more story by Nikolay Nosov. This story is pretty long so we divide it on two parts. Hope you’ll enjoy this story also. (You can read the story in Russian in Moshkov library.) Laddy […]

Hello, Today we finish reading a story “Laddy” by Nikolai Nosov, what we started to read look Stories from Soviet Childhood: Laddy (1). Laddy (Part 2) I noticed that the teacher was staring at him. Her forehead was puckered as if she were trying to remember something. Suddenly she stopped him and said: “Just a […]

Blueberry jam: Now that is something Russians know how to make and blueberries are plentiful in Russia. I use this same recipe to make any form of a jam here in Russia, but since Russians are very likely to have a jar of homemade Blueberry Jam in the fridge! I decided to use Blueberries instead […]

A saying that is thrown around a lot on the internet by democracy pushers is: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” by Sir Winston Churchill… Now that seems to me, that we are saying: All governments are yuck, but we have […]

Every once in awhile I find someone or someones that make me smile. This video is one of many videos that are done by the JulianSmith.tv… Gotta love it for I love coffee and I base many articles about sipping that cup of coffee… Try it you may like it: “Don’t Drink That Racist Coffee!” […]

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & thinking about an old Children’s Park we found on a trip we took years ago. It was left to decay and grow over with weeds and it just seemed so sad… You could walk among the rides and still feel the energy of the kids running […]

The propaganda is strong here. They don’t know when to quit. Do the owners / controllers of our media hate Russia? Or just want to keep us fearful / hateful all of the time? Maybe both… It wouldn’t be such a big deal if there were true opposing views in our media, but there aren’t. […]