A Year Of Russian Feasts

'Foreigners who spend time in Russia soon learn that there are actually two Russias - one public and the other private. The public Russia is typically cold and dark, backward and wary. The private Russia - the Russia of tea at a friend's kitchen table or of sauteed mushrooms in a village dacha - is almost unfailingly cosy and kind'- From the Introduction
Travel to the author's Russia on a journey that takes you to a springtime bliny festival and Easter feast, to a small Russian village to disco