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Don Cuisine
Once during the 300-year Romanov dynasty Tsar Nicholas II decided to take stock of his possessions. This decision brought him to the Cossack village of Elizavetinskaya, the largest fishing village on the Don River at the time. There residents invited the tsar to try a fish soup, called “ukha.” A week after the tsar had left, the man who had prepared the soup, Vasily Kedrov, received a parcel with a gold medal inside thanking him for his military service. At first he was surprised to have received such an award, but remembering the tsar’s visit and how much he had enjoyed his meal, he realized that the real reason for the gold medal was not his military service, but in fact his delicious soup. Nowadays there are still a great number of fish recipes in Rostov-on-Don. RTG TV host Stanislav Salnikov travelled there where he learned how to cook sturgeon in sparkling wine and, to his surpri...
The fortress walls of Kaliningrad
For more than seven centuries the city of Königsberg cultivated its defensive power through the construction of bastions, ravelins, towers, fortress gates, defensive barracks and a ring of bastilles. To this day these buildings constitute the core of the city. It was in the 20th century that Königsberg received a new name — Kaliningrad — and the city’s magnificent examples of ancient fortification were transformed into monuments of fortification art and military engineering thought from the second half of the 19th century. Host Nadezhda Lebedeva visited modern-day Kaliningrad to check out these historic constructions for herself in this RTG film.
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The fortress walls of Kaliningrad
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