"and styles of particular bars or mixologists. Most common varieties have adjusted amounts of vodka or coffee liqueur, or mixed brands of coffee liqueur. Shaking the cream in order to thicken it prior to pouring it over the drink is also common. Sometimes the drink is prepared on the stove with hot coffee for a warm treat on cold days. Many variants of the cocktail exist, both localized and widely known, such as a Blind Russian (which substitutes the cream with Baileys Irish Cream), a Mudslide (a Blind Russian with added cream), White Canadian (made with goat's milk), an Anna"
"Black Russian The Black Russian is a cocktail of vodka and coffee liqueur. It contains five parts vodka to two parts coffee liqueur, per IBA specified ingredients. Traditionally, the drink is made by pouring the vodka over ice cubes or cracked ice in an old-fashioned glass, followed by the coffee liqueur. This combination first appeared in 1949 and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then United States Ambassador to Luxembourg. The cocktail owes its name to the use of vodka, a typical Russian spirit,"
"and the blackness of the coffee liqueur. Black Russian The Black Russian is a cocktail of vodka and coffee liqueur. It contains five parts vodka to two parts coffee liqueur, per IBA specified ingredients. Traditionally, the drink is made by pouring the vodka over ice cubes or cracked ice in an old-fashioned glass, followed by the coffee liqueur. This combination first appeared in 1949 and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then United States Ambassador to Luxembourg. The cocktail owes its name to the"
"and a ""black version"". When a wealthy man dies, Fandorin is brought in to clarify some points of the will. After the murder of several characters, Fandorin (assisted by his manservant Masa) needs his sleuthing skills once more. The black version leads to a diametrically opposed result to that of the white version, due to some minor changes in evidence found in the beginning of the play. This play is notable for the comic element introduced by Masa's limited knowledge of Russian—he has begun copying out words from the dictionary but so far has gotten only to the letter ""D""."
"word for white cheese is ""tvorog"" (творог), which derived from Proto-Slavic ""tvorъ."" Syrniki In Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Serbian cuisine, syrnyky (Ukrainian: сирник[и]; ; ) are fried quark pancakes, garnished with sour cream, ""varenye"", jam, honey or apple sauce. The cheese mixture may contain raisins for extra flavour. In Russia, they are also known as tvorozhniki (творо́жники). Syrnyky or tvorozhniki is made from creamy ""tvorog"" (, quark), mixed with flour, eggs and sugar, sometimes adding vanilla extract. Pot cheese or farmer's cheese is suggested as a substitute for the ""tvorog"". The soft mixture is shaped into cakes, which"
"as common shoes. The Cossacks of Southern Russia have a separate brand of culture within ethnic Russian, their clothes including burka and papaha, which they share with the peoples of the Northern Caucasus. Russian cuisine widely uses fish, poultry, mushrooms, berries, and honey. Crops of rye, wheat, barley, and millet provide the ingredients for a plethora of breads, pancakes, cereals, kvass, beer, and vodka. Black bread is relatively more popular in Russia compared to the rest of the world. Soups, stews and filled dumplings are very characteristic for Russian cuisine. The most popular soups include shchi, borsch, ukha, solyanka and"
"is also composed of the names of the two of main protagonists. ""Инь"" is the Russian transliteration of the Chinese word transliterated in English as ""Yin"", and similarly ""Ян"" is for ""Yang"". However the ""correct"" translation would miss the puns with the names of the protagonists: Inga and Ian (Yan). The white and black versions are different both in overall feeling and in details. The white version, according to the viewers, takes itself seriously, plays like a detective story, and has a typical Russian atmosphere. The black version, on the other hand, is more of a black comedy with mystic"
"Belaya Rus vodka Belaya Rus (,""White Russia"", ""White Rus"") is a brand of vodka, launched in the US in 2012 by Gvardia LLC and distilled in Belarus from a blend of premium hard winter wheat (%25) and rye (75%) using pure artesian water drawn from wells 1000 ft. (290 meters) deep. It is distilled six times and filtered with patented method using black flint or ""Cremia"", a mineral found only in Belarus. The alcohol content of this spirit is 40%, (eighty proof), priced similarly to Smirnoff and Svedka. Belaya Rus literally translates as White Russia, a name that has historically"
"Russian dressing Russian dressing is a piquant American salad dressing consisting of mayonnaise with ketchup and other ingredients. Russian dressing is a key ingredient in a Reuben sandwich. Russian dressing is mentioned as early as 1900 in American sources. It is also documented in a 1910 catering book as an alternative to vinaigrette for dressing tomatoes or asparagus. A 1913 cookbook has a recipe which is a vinaigrette with paprika and mustard. A mayonnaise-based recipe is documented in 1914. Local historians claim that the mayonnaise-based version was invented in Nashua, New Hampshire, by James E. Colburn in the 1910s. A"
"Charlotte, and his current, Russian employer Czar Alexander I (""russe"" being the French word for ""Russian""). It is a cold dessert of Bavarian cream set in a mold lined with ladyfingers. An alternative to this is a Charlotte Royale, which has the same filling as a Charlotte russe, but replaces the ladyfinger lining with Swiss roll. Charlotte russe was also a dessert or on-the-go treat sold in candy stores and luncheonettes throughout the five boroughs of New York, popular during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. It consisted of a paper cup filled with yellow cake and whipped cream topped with"
"board. After 6.e5! (6.Bd3 is less challenging) Black has: Also intriguing is 6. Nb5!, with 6...Nxe4?! met with 7. Qg4, with strong compensation for the pawn. White can play 2.Nf3 without intending to follow up with 3.d4. The systems given below are usually classified along with White's second move alternatives as . After 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6, White's most important alternative to 3.d4 is 3.Bb5+, known as the Moscow Variation. Grandmasters sometimes choose this variation when they wish to avoid theory; for instance, it was played by Garry Kasparov in the online game Kasparov–The World. Experts in this line include"
"Russian"" to distinguish it from Belarusian, then called ""White Russian"" and Ukrainian, then called ""Little Russian"". The vocabulary (mainly abstract and literary words), principles of word formations, and, to some extent, inflections and literary style of Russian have been also influenced by Church Slavonic, a developed and partly russified form of the South Slavic Old Church Slavonic language used by the Russian Orthodox Church. However, the East Slavic forms have tended to be used exclusively in the various dialects that are experiencing a rapid decline. In some cases, both the East Slavic and the Church Slavonic forms are in use,"
"""Russia"" or the ""Russian Empire"" was formed by three parts of Russia—the Great, Little, and White. This asserted that the territories are all Russian and all the peoples are also Russian; in the case of the Belarusians, they were variants of the Russian people. After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the term ""White Russia"" caused some confusion, as it was also the name of the military force that opposed the red Bolsheviks. During the period of the Byelorussian SSR, the term ""Byelorussia"" was embraced as part of a national consciousness. In western Belarus under Polish control, ""Byelorussia"" became commonly used"
"and Volga Region. Handicraft, like Dymkovo toy, khokhloma, gzhel and palekh miniature represent an important aspect of Russian folk culture. Ethnic Russian clothes include kaftan, kosovorotka and ushanka for men, sarafan and kokoshnik for women, with lapti and valenki as common shoes. The clothes of Cossacks from Southern Russia include burka and papaha, which they share with the peoples of the Northern Caucasus. Russian cuisine widely uses fish, caviar, poultry, mushrooms, berries, and honey. Crops of rye, wheat, barley, and millet provide the ingredients for various breads, pancakes and cereals, as well as for kvass, beer and vodka drinks. Black"
"A variant known as red Russian dressing is very much like Catalina or French dressing. In Germany, a similar salad dressing is called ""American dressing"". Russian dressing Russian dressing is a piquant American salad dressing consisting of mayonnaise with ketchup and other ingredients. Russian dressing is a key ingredient in a Reuben sandwich. Russian dressing is mentioned as early as 1900 in American sources. It is also documented in a 1910 catering book as an alternative to vinaigrette for dressing tomatoes or asparagus. A 1913 cookbook has a recipe which is a vinaigrette with paprika and mustard. A mayonnaise-based recipe"
"form of rusk, and seasoning, before filling the mixture into a casing and boiling it. Natural casings of beef intestine were formerly used, though modern commercially made puddings use synthetic cellulose skins, and are usually produced from imported dried blood. The relatively limited range of ingredients and use of oats or barley to thicken and absorb the blood is typical of black pudding in comparison to Continental blood sausages. Despite this, black pudding recipes still show more regional variation across the country than other sausages, with many butchers having their own individual versions. Breadcrumbs or flour are sometimes used to"
"that also arises from the Moscow Variation after 2...d6 3.Bb5+ Nc6), and 3...e6 preparing 4...Nge7. Sergei Rublevsky and Tomáš Oral both play this line as well as the Moscow Variation. 3.Nc3 is a common transpositional device for White, who can play 4.d4 or 4.Bb5 next move depending on Black's response. Black sometimes plays 3...e5 to avoid both moves; then 4.Bc4 is considered White's best move. 3.c3 transposes to lines of the Alapin Variation after 3...Nf6 or 3...d5. White sometimes plays 3.Nc3 as a waiting move, though it has little independent significance. With 3.d3, White plans to develop in King's Indian"
"Russian reversal A Russian reversal is a type of joke, usually starting with the words ""In Soviet Russia"", in which the subject and objects of a statement are reversed, commonly as a snowclone pattern: ""In America you <do something> to/with ""X"", in Soviet Russia ""X"" <does something> to/with you."" Sometimes the first part is omitted. Although the exact origin of the joke form is uncertain, an early example is from the 1938 Cole Porter musical ""Leave It to Me!"" (""In Soviet Russia, messenger tips you."") Bob Hope used the form at the 1958 Academy Awards. In the 1968–1973 television show"
"Russian drunkard emptying the last drops of vodka into his mouth. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, quartz, gold-plated quartz, kalkanskaya jasper, blue jasper, ruby, malachite, tiger eye, silver, serdolic agate, sapphire, obsidian, agate and cacholong. Height 35 cm. • ""Walruses"": A couple ""enjoying"" a plunge into an icy pool. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, jasper, agate, calcite, obsidian, aventurine, jasper, rhodonite, silver and gold-plated silver. Height 24 cm. • ""Wanderer (Old Believer)"": A member of a fundamentalist religious group, known as the Old Believers, that split from the traditional Russian Orthodox Church around 1660. Materials: Beloretsk quartz, rutilated quartz, cacholong or Kalmuck agate, amethyst,"
"and smetana was added as a garnish before serving. Shchi is traditionally eaten with rye bread. The ingredients of shchi gradually changed. Flour, which was added in early times to increase the soup's caloric value, was excluded for the sake of finer taste. The spice mixture was enriched with black pepper and bay leaf, which were imported to Russia around the 15th century, also from Byzantium. Meat was sometimes substituted with fish, while carrot and parsley could be added to the vegetables. Beef was the most popular meat for shchi in Russia, while pork was more common in Ukraine. The"
"White Tights ""White Tights"" (also ""White Pantyhose"" or White Stockings; the ""beliye kolgotki"", ; ; ; ) is a Russian urban myth surrounding the alleged participation of female sniper mercenaries in combat against Russian forces in various armed conflicts from late 1980s. The myth describes these women as blond Amazon-like nationalistic biathletes turned anti-Russian mercenaries. They come predominantly from the Baltic states, but subsequent variations of the myth have diversified the ethnic composition of the snipers, including Ukrainian, Russian women in their midst. The name ""White Tights"" originates from the white-coloured winter sports attire these snipers were wearing and was"
"turns black and the final credits begin to roll. Reflective of Russians' affinity to music,- classical music and musical instruments are well represented in the series. Upright pianos are in the homes of Sasha's mother and Kosmos' father. Olga is a violinist and her rehearsing on a violin impresses Sasha to court her. Olga and Sasha attend a Bolshoi Theater performance of Swan Lake Waltz. This is a non-exhaustive list of music identified in the series: ""please help to expand by translation of the Russian article that tells about the son of the director (the son become notorious as a"
"of yorsh described there included mead, however. Yorsh Yorsh (Also known as Mora Grogg) ( which means ""Ruffe"") is a Russian mixed drink consisting of beer thoroughly mixed with an ample quantity of vodka. It is traditionally drunk in a social setting, typically with a toast followed by downing a full glass of it at one go. Vodka is a neutral spirit which does not greatly alter the flavor of the beer, but does greatly increase its alcohol content. Probably the first evidence of presence of such a mix in Russian drinking culture is the Tale of Woe and Misfortune,"
"Russian Schnapsen Russian Schnapsen or Thousand Schnapsen is a trick-taking game for three players, the aim of which is to score over 1000 points to win the game. It is a variant of the popular Austrian game of Schnapsen. Like its parent, Russian Schnapsen features ""marriages"" (pairs of a King and Queen of the same suit) which are worth extra points. The first dealer is chosen either by drawing lots or by mutual agreement. The dealer rotates clockwise with each hand. Before dealing (after shuffling), the deck is cut by the player on the dealer's right. After cutting, the top"
"White Coke White Coke (, literally ""colorless Coca-Cola"") is a nickname for a clear variant of Coca-Cola produced in the 1940s at the request of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Zhukov was introduced to Coca-Cola during, or shortly after, World War II by his counterpart in Western Europe, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Western Europe, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was also a fan of the drink. As Coca-Cola was regarded in the Soviet Union as a symbol of American imperialism, Zhukov was apparently reluctant to be photographed or reported as consuming such a product. According to journalist"
"are Russian)"" 2. Встреча ""(A Meeting)"" 3. На карнавал ""(To the carnival)"" 4. Любовь ""(Love)"" 5. Не пожелаю зла ""(Won't wish you ill)"" 6. На берегу ""(On the coast)"" 7. Праздник ""(Celebration)"" 8. Зима ""(Winter)"" 9. У музыки в плену ""(Captivated by music)"" 10. Колыбельная ""(Lullaby)"" 11. День рождения ""(Birthday)"" remix 12. Жираф ""(Giraffe)"" 13. Любовь ""(Love)"" a duet with M. Boyarskiy 14. Улетай! ""(Fly away!)"" 1. Вот такие дела ""(These are the things)"" 2. Белая черемуха ""(White cherry)"" 3. Мы летим за облака ""(We fly over the clouds)"" 4. Зеленые огни ""(Green lights)"" 5. Карточный домик ""(House of cards)"""
"GMs Sergei Rublevsky and Tomáš Oral. Black can block the check with 3...Bd7, 3...Nc6 or 3...Nd7. The position after 3...Nc6 can also be reached via the Rossolimo Variation after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6. Most common is 3...Bd7, when after 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7, White can either play 5.0-0 followed by c3 and d4, or 5.c4 in the style of the Maróczy Bind. The World Team Variation of the Moscow Variation continues with 5.c4 Nc6 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.0-0 g6 8.d4 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bg7 10.Nde2 Qe6, forking White's pawns on e4 and c4. This move was suggested by Irina Krush, and played"
"clear or otherwise, softening up from absorbed liquids and accompanying it instead of bread. It became a tradition in order not to waste any leftover bread that always was a staple in Russian cuisine, was hard labored for, and respected for thousands of years. There is a lot of folklore and sayings about bread in Russian language, paying due respect to this grain food that is one of the cornerstones of Slavic nations' life and history. Rusks is the anglicized term for ""beskuit"" and is a traditional Afrikaner breakfast meal or snack. They have been dried in South Africa since"
"Imperial House of Romanov. Dress is white tie, black tie or national costume. Russian Ball, Washington, D.C. The Russian Ball of Washington, DC is an invitation-only dinner dance and one of the premiere social events in the United States. The ball is an annual tradition founded in 1971 by the socialite Maria Fisher. An enthusiast of holding ""heritage parties"" celebrating different ethnicities, Fisher acted on the suggestion of Prince Alexis Obolensky, a Russian nobleman who resided in Washington, to organize a ball celebrating the city's White émigré community around the time of the old style Julian calendar New Year in"
"especially if Black plays ...Bb7. White usually plays 9.h3 instead of 9.d4 (the Yates Variation) because after 9.d4 Bg4 (the Bogoljubow Variation), the pin of the white is troublesome. The variation takes its name from the game Capablanca–Bogoljubow, London 1922. The Chigorin Variation was refined by Mikhail Chigorin around the turn of the 20th century and became the primary Black defence to the Ruy Lopez for more than fifty years. With 9...Na5 Black chases the white bishop from the a2–g8 diagonal and frees the c-pawn for queenside expansion. After 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 the classical Black follow up is 11...Qc7, reinforcing"
"– added to the vodka by the illegal traders because of its high alcohol content and low price. Death toll estimates list at least 120 dead and more than 1,000 poisoned. The death toll is expected to rise due to the chronic nature of the cirrhosis that is causing the jaundice. However, there are also much higher estimates of the annual death toll (dozens or even hundreds of thousand of lives) produced by the vodka consumption in Russia. Vodka can also be used in cooking and various recipes are improved by the addition of vodka or rely on it as"
"and the last on mushroom or vegetable broth. All the broths are mixed with cucumber pickle water. Lapsha (noodle soup) was adopted by Russians from Tatars, and after some transformation became widespread in Russia. It comes in three variations: chicken, mushroom, and milk. Cooking all three is simple, including preparation of noodles, cooking of corresponding broth, and boiling of noodles in broth. Noodles are based on the same wheat flour or buckwheat/wheat flour mix. Mixed flour noodles go better with mushroom or milk broth. Olivier salad (also known as Russian salad), a mayonnaise-based potato salad distinguished by its diced texture"
"Russia, became ill during a visit to Latvia, but was cured after drinking Riga Black Balsam. Riga Black Balsam Riga Black Balsam () is a traditional Latvian balsam made with many different natural ingredients. In the crafting process Riga Black Balsam is made using unique single-barrel infusion technology. Botanicals are infused in spirit-water mix to create a so called ""Riga Black Balsam essence"". After that the essence is blended with the rest of ingredients, such as honey, caramel, natural juices and bottled in natural clay bottle that retains the original unique appeal and preserves the qualities of the drink. It"