Russian Club at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages of Saint Louis University first opened its doors in the early 60s when the interest to Russian was boosted up by the Russian achievement in air space explorations. The Club was one of the few available sources of knowledge and experience of Russian traditions and life style. In its heydays, the Club would even put up shows of one-act plays by the Russian authors that were well attended despite the fact that it was done in Russian!
Nowadays, when all finds of information is .just a click away., the Russian Club continues to enjoy popularity among students of Russian and members of the local Russian community who are often featured as Guest Speakers or just pop in to have fun.
The Club meeting are held regularly once or twice a semester and focus on various traditional Russian festivals or on a selected topic. Here students of Russian also get hands-on experience in making Russian traditional dishes and acquire a taste of genuine Russian food (i.e. borsh, pirozhki, bliny, golubtsy, sushki, prianiki, Russian salad ) and drink (e.g. kvas, tea with lemon). On special occasions, Russian Club members take field trips to the annual Russian Festival, to the Russian Orthodox Church or to the local Russian restaurants Dvin and Zhivago's.
See below pictures of some recent memorable meeting of the Russian Club.
Celebrating Russian Program graduation at the restaurant DVIN
Russian Tea Party (February 1999)
Happy Birthday, Stephan! (September 2000)
At the Russian Restaurant Zhvago.s (May 1999)
Helping to make shashlyk at the Russian Festival (September 2003)
(The last on the right is RU 210 student Chris Keena)
For more information about Russian Festival see: http://stlrus.com
Celebrating Russian Malenitsa (March 2003)
Easter at St. John.s Russian Orthodox Church (April 2000)
(For more information about Russian Orthodox Church in St. Louis see: (www.russianorthodox-stl.org)
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