Russian ballet
Glinka's A Life for the Tsar and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake were first performed in this theatre. Name the theatre
The Bolshoy Theatre
A large walled area built to the Moskva River on one side and Red Square on the other. Its name means fortress
The Moscow Kremlin
This city was founded in 1628 on the Yenisei River, you can see there unusual cliffs at Stolby Reserve
Krasnoyarsk
Giving flowers of this color is considered to be a breakup or bad luck in Russia
Yellow
She was the first woman to walk in space
Svetlana Savitskaya
The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world. Who composed it?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Krymsky Val and Lavrushinsky Pereulok are the addresses of the famous collection of paintings. Name it
the Tretyakov Gallery
This lake in Eastern Siberia contains more water than all the Great Lakes of America put together and it is still growing at a rate 2 cm a year. It's also the oldest lake in on Earth
Lake Baikal
She is the spirit of a young woman who drowned. When there is a new moon she comes out to the nearby forest, sits there on a tree and combs her hair
Rusalka
In 1998, fifteen-year-old he won the World Junior Championships and finished the 3rd in the Senior Championships. Later he became World and Olympic Champion. Name him and his sport
Evgeni Plushenko, figure skating
Choose 6 names of the famous Russian ballet dancers: Maya Plisetskaya, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Fyodor Shalyapin, Matilda Kshesinskaya, Anna Pavlova, Elena Obraztsova, Galina Ulanova, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rodion Shchedrin
Maya Plisetskaya, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Matilda Kshesinskaya, Anna Pavlova, Galina Ulanova, Mikhail Baryshnikov
The first Russin ... was founded n Moscow on 25th January, 1755 by Count Ivan Shuvalov, Empress Elizabeth the Great and Mikhail Lomonosov
university (Moscow State University)
The longest Russian and world railway, it covers 9,000 miles, that's a third of the way around the Earth
The Trans-Siberian Railway
If a ... falls on the floor a woman will come, if a ... a man will come
spoon
knife
She is the first and only single skater in the history of figure skating — a seven-time European champion, two-time world champion, Olympic medalist
Irina Slutskaya
In 1738, the world's second ballet school was founded in St. Petersburg, which still works today
The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
Moscow has got its name from the river that runs through it, the Moskva. “Moscow” means "....”
wet
An ancient Russian city that stands on a high hill where the Volga flows into the Oka River where you can see a lot of ancient churches, the red brick towers of grand Kremlin, the Archangel Cathedral. In the 20th century it was named Gorky in honor of the world-famous writer.
Nizhny Novgorod
It's bad luck to shake hands or kiss through a doorway because it will offend him. Whom?
Domovoy
He was a Russian novelist, journalist and philosopher of the 19th century whose works has had a huge impact on world literature. He is still the most widely read author in Russia
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In 2005 this Russian ballerina was nominated in London for the National Dance Award as the best dancer according to British critics for her performance as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake
Irina Kolesnikova
In Moscow, there are seven buildings that look exactly the same:
Moscow State University
Hotel Ukraina
Leningradskaya Hotel
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building
Kudrinskaya Square Building
Red Gates Administrative Building
Name the last one
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
This city witnessed the full horror and heroism of World War II. You can go to Mamayev Kurgan to see the enormous statue Motherland calls that celebrates the enduring spirit of Russian people
Volgograd
If someone makes comment hitting about something bad that might happen some Russians believe that they are inviting bad luck. What do they do to counteract it?
They knock on wood and/or spit over the left shoulder
He was an outstanding Russian icon painter, who was canonized in 1988. Now his icons can be seen not only in the Tretyakov Gallery, but also in ancient cathedrals, for example, in the Cathedral of Annunciation that in the Cathedral Square in Moscow
Andrey Rublev