🔢 Сергиев Посад
    [ 'sergiyev pa'sat ]

🔻Sergiyev Posad is the religious center of the Moscow Region as its first monastery was founded in 1337.

🔻The monastery began as a church built by Sergius of Radonezh, made out of wood, and by 1345 was recognized as a place of religious worship.

🔻In the 18th century, wooden monasteries were mostly destroyed and began reconstruction and settlement (roads, hotels, stable, and hospice).

🔻Lavra was closed in 1919 after the Russian Revolution, like all other places of worship in the USSR.

🔻The town's name, alluding to St. Sergius, has strong religious connotations. Soviet authorities changed it first to just Sergiyev in 1919, and then to Zagorsk in 1930, in memory of the revolutionary Vladimir Zagorsky.

🔻It was reopened later in 1941 during WW2 and continued to serve as a religious and historical center of Russia.

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• Говорю мужу, мне нравятся мужчины, которые качаются.
[ga-va-ryu mu-zhu, mne nra-vya-tsya muzh-chi-ny, ka-to-ry-ye ka-cha-yu-tsya]
🇬🇧 (I) tell my husband (that) I like men who pump iron.

• Качаться (imperfective)
[ka-cha-tsya]

Meaning:
1) To move from side to side: swing on a swing
2) To sway while walking
3) Slang: To build muscles at a gym

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⏺Олень (masculine)
  [ а'len' ]

Meaning:
1) traditional: a (rein)deer
2) but on the Internet and in real life you can often hear someone calls a narrow-minded or careless person 'олень'.

🔻Those who commit rash acts, do something without thinking about the consequences are called:

• олени [ a'lenee] (plural)

• Вот олени!
   [ vot a'lenee ]
🇬🇧 literally: Here are deer! They are assholes/weirdos!

• Ну ты и олeнь!
  [ noo ty i a'len' ]
🇬🇧 You're too naive/careless/ narrow-minded!

🔻In the context of Internet memes, 'олень' has become a kind of symbol of clumsiness,  awkwardness and of course, naivety, as the jokes about antlers and disloyal girlfriends take the first place!🦌

⚠️ It's impolite to call someone 'олень', and should be used carefully, or not used at all. But you can hear it in Russia, so, you must know it in case someone insults you.

🎧🗣👇 listen, practice and don't be оленями!

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🇷🇺 Русские красавицы
     [ 'rooskiye kra'saveetsy ]
Russian beauties

Has your heart started beating with excitement?

🔻These photographs were taken at the end of the 19th century and are currently kept in the collection of the Russian Ethnographic Museum. 

🔻They depict women in traditional costumes from different regions of the Russian Empire. 

🔻And although many regional differences can be seen in the photographs, there are two similar basic elements in the outfits - a sundress and a kokoshnik.

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17 октября - Международный День Прощения Бывшего (Бывшей).

🇬🇧 October 17 is an International Forgive an Ex Day.

🔻This holiday is dedicated to finding the insight needed to overcome the mental trauma of a broken relationship.

Have you forgiven your Ex? Not yet? Forgive him/her in Russian:

⏺Я тебя прощаю!
   [ ya tee'bya pra'schayoo ]
🇬🇧 I forgive you!

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⏺Принцессы не храпят!
  [ prin'tsessy ne khra'pyat ]
🇬🇧 Princesses do not snore!

• Принцесса (feminine)
   [ prin'tsessa ]
🇬🇧 A princess

• Храпеть (imperfective)
  [ khrapet' ]
🇬🇧 to snore

Can you make up your own sentences using 'принцесса' and 'храпеть' in the comnents❓

See the declesion of 'принцесса' and conjugation of 'храпеть' over ther👇 .

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⏺Не будь лапшой!
[ ni boot' lap'shoy ]

Literally:
Don't be noodle!

Meaning:
Don't be a weakling (as soft as noodle, doughfaced), be strong physically and mentally.

🔻Russians usually use this saying when someone sneezes or as a humorous wish to a child for a birthday.

🔻The full proverb is:

• Будь здоров! Расти большoй! Не будь лапшой!
[ boot' zda'rof, ras'tee bal'shoy, ni boot' lap'shoy ]
🇬🇧 literally: Be healthy! Grow big!  Don't be weak! / Bless you!

🔻This phrase is informal, so, you can use it with your close people, friends but not with your boss at work🤐.

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❓Как смеётся принцесса?
[ kak smee'yotsa prin'tsessa ]
🇬🇧 How does a princess laugh?

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🔢 Pereslavl-Zalessky is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.

🔻It was founded in 1152 by George I of Vladimir as a projected capital of Zalesye (lit. 'beyond the woods').

🔻Between 1175 and 1302, Pereslavl was the seat of a principality; in 1302, it was inherited by the prince of Moscow following the childless death of Dmitry of Pereslavl's son Ivan.

🔻Pereslavl-Zalessky was devastated numerous times by the Mongols between the mid-13th century and the early 15th century.

🔻In 1688–1693, Peter the Great built his famous "fun flotilla" on Lake Pleshcheyevo for his own amusement, including the so-called Peter's little boat (botik).

🔻There are numerous tourists sights here:

• The Museum of an Iron
• Teapot Museum
• The Museum of Alexander Nevsky
• The boat of Peter I
• Steam Locomotive Museum
• an arboretum
• Orthodox shrines and architectural monuments

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👋 (Не) доброе утро!

• Хандрить (imperfective)
[ khan'dreet' ]
🇬🇧 to be down in the dumps, to feel blue, to mope

• Хандра (uncountable noun)
[ khan'dra ]
🇬🇧 depression, bad mood, a sulk

• Типичный случай осенней хандры.
[ tee'peechnyj 'sloochaj asennej khan'dry ]
🇬🇧 It's a сommon case of autumn blues.

• Не хандри! Иди обниму!
[ ni khan'dree, i'dee abni'moo ]
🇬🇧 Don't mope! Come, I'll give you a hug!

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⏺Потом докажи, что ты не верблюд!
[ pa'tom daka'zhee shto ty ni verbl'yud ]

Literally:
Then prove that you are not a camel!

Meaning:
It is usually said when the narrator is faced with the impossibility of proving the obvious absence of his guilt in something.

Origin:
This phrase appeared after a popular Soviet political anecdote in the USSR in the 1920s - 1930s 😀:

Foxes (or hares) are running across the border of the USSR. They are asked:
- Why are you running away?
- Because they will arrest all the camels.
- But you’re not camels, are you?
- So, go and prove to the NKVD that you are not a camel!

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The man in this meme is a well-known actor Sergei Bodrov who starred in the popular Russian films 'Brother' and 'Brother-2'.

🤩 Both films are worth watching!

📎 Unfortunately, I haven't found the first film...

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😅Не понимаете русский?
Пришло время выучить! (с)

[ ne pani'mayete 'russkij, prish'lo vremya je'vo vyuchit' ]

🇬🇧 Don't understand Russian? It's time to learn! (c)

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😳 If you're under 18 or just against obscene language, please, skip this post!

⚠️'Дебилы, блядь!'
    [ di'bily blyat' ]

🔻This is a famous phrase uttered by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on August 11, 2015 during a press conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and then received widespread media coverage, turning into a meme.

🔻In the posted recording it was not clear to whom this statement was addressed, but a minute later Lavrov made a remark to the people sitting in the hall: “Are we disturbing you?”

🔻Literally it can be translated as: 'Morons/idiots, f**k.'

🔻Lavrov’s phrase subsequently came to mean a person or some group of people who do or say stupid things.

PS Russian famous 'блядь' ('бля' for short) can express a wide range of emotions from surprise to anger.

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• Развести как лоха (singular)/лохов (plural) (colloquial)
[ razve'stee kak la'kha / la'khof ]
🇬🇧 to deceive a simpleton, a naive person(s)

• Лох (masculine, be careful, it's insulting, though not obscene⚠️)
  [ lokh ]
🇬🇧 A very naive person who is easy to deceive

• Лохи (plural)
  [ 'lokhi ]

Origin:
In Russian, salmon used to be called 'лох', which became sluggish and emaciated during spawning. It stubbornly goes to the spawning site, caring little about his safety, becoming easy prey.

• Лохануться (perfective )
  [ lakha'nootsya ]
🇬🇧 to fail, to make a silly mistake

🎧🗣👇 listen, practice and remember these words just in case if someone insults you!

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