What do you know about Russian superstitions? 4 ... It is said that this tradition comes from the time of the Napoleonic Wars. After the Battle of Paris in 1814, Russian Cossacks noticed that ...

Many cultures have different legends about lily of the valley. According to the Russian tradition, the sea princess Volkhova fell in love with an adventurous merchant and gusli player, Sadko (the ...

I do love the seemingly random nature of superstitions and I genuinely ... like that with hand gestures on your own person. In Russian culture, this superstition means you are basically tempting ...