Now on air
05:45
RTG TV TOP10 Отдых в горах. Туристические маршруты
Sviatki — Christmastide in Shuvalovka village
Russian people have always known how to work and play hard. As the saying goes, “Take note of weekdays and holidays will come on their own.” And come they did. In winter, one of the season’s most revered periods was the twelve days of Christmas. The period begins on Orthodox Christmas, January 7, and lasts through Epiphany, January 19. These two weeks helped to set a framework for the Christmas celebrations, a time filled with festive gatherings and horseback riding…Host Maria Mumicheva set off for a St. Petersburg suburb – the ethnographic village of Shuvalovka, which serves as its own kind of museum of traditional Russian culture.
Now on air
05:30
Sviatki — Christmastide in Shuvalovka village
The bastion of emperor Paul
Russian Emperor Paul the First was so fascinated by the period of knights and the Middle Ages that he had a real castle built for himself – called BEP (the Bastion of Emperor Paul) — complete with a moat, drawbridges, narrow windows and high towers. Centuries later the historical building, located just outside of St. Petersburg in the suburb of Pavlovsk, has become a design hotel. The castle’s rooms in which the Emperor himself once stayed have become elegant apartments. The hotel has about two dozen rooms, each which is unique in its own way with the décor lending to an atmosphere of the gloomy yet romantic period the Paul loved so much without imitating its style. RTG TV presenter Evgenia Altfeld set off to learn about the artists who helped create this historic design hotel and discovered just why the Emperor insisted there be secret staircases as well as the explanation behind the na...
Now on air
05:30