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This is the datscha of Nastjas parents. We rested there from Friday afternoot until Sunday midday. The little house is the banja, the russian kind of sauna. There are four rooms and a veranda. The first room ist for resting and poke the ofen for the sauna. The second room is for changing the cloth, the third for washing after the sauna and the fourth the sauna itself. The procedure goes over some hours. Heat yourself, the wash, rest outside, heat again. A speciality is the steaming of the body with birch brushwood.
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Preparations for Nikitas 14th birthday party. We were all time eating very nice food, wich Nikolaj Nikolajevich and Galja were preparating.
There was:
- perch, done over smoke
- a big knuckle of pork, with peppered with garlic
- chanterelles with fried potatoes
- four different cakes made from yeast dough, uppon poppy seed, sour cream, pizza and last but not least huckleberry
... in between drinking tea, eating jam, and selfmade gherkin with salt...
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This is the so called Njevskie Prospekt through the wood. Just the way from the datscha to a huge river, called Mologa.
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Pedal boat in front of the Mologa river. It is around 450 m wide, and flows very quiet in the summer. The water is quite clean. We drove over the river to the other side to take some chanterelles.
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Nikolaj Nikolajevich is a real good musician. He studied music, but works now in Cerepovec, leading the social part of the very huge firm Sever-Stahl (Cever-Ctahl), which is the main employer of this region. 34.000 people are working in this really huge company.
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This is the monastery of Kirillov, wich appriximately 80 km in the north of Cerepovec. Ivan, Nastja's brother was quite tired of driving us along the very bad roads.
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