Accordion
Can you tell that I’m learning how to post videos? Here are four short videos from our visits to Olga’s grandparents’ house. The Russian summer or country house is called the dacha (rhymes with gotcha). In usage we say things like, ‘I am going to dacha’ or, ‘how was dacha?’. These videos are pretty poor [...]
Here is a favorite Russian tune, in a great setting – Katyusha is a tender diminutive from the female name Ekaterina (Catherine): Katya is the nickname and Katyusha, a tender diminutive. This is a Russian Soviet wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service. The music was composed [...]
