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Krasa Rossii (Russian: The Beauty of Russia) is one of the national beauty pageants in Russia that sends the country's representatives to the Miss Earth pageant. The pageant also sent representatives at Miss Asia Pacific/International in the past, other being Miss Russia.
The system of Russian forms of addressing is used in Russian languages to indicate relative social status and the degree of respect between speakers. Typical language for this includes using certain parts of a person's full name, name suffixes , and honorific plural , as well as various titles and ranks.
A beauty deity is a god or (usually) goddess associated with the concept of beauty. Classic examples in the Western culture are the Greek goddess Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart, Venus. The following is a list of beauty deities across different cultures. For some deities, beauty is only one of several aspects they represent, or a lesser one.
Beloved Beauty, Russian Краса́ ненагля́дная, 1958 stop-animated film. Along Unknown Paths, Russian Там, на неведомых дорожках, 1982 children's fantasy. Aleksandr Filippenko as Koschei. After the Rain, on Thursday, Russian После дождичка в четверг, 1985 musical children's fantasy.
In the Russian Orthodox Church Svetlana is used as a Russian translation of Photina (derived from phos (Greek: φως, "light")), a name sometimes ascribed to the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well (the Bible, John 4).
Runglish, Ruslish, Russlish (Russian: рунглиш, руслиш, русслиш), or Russian English, is a language born out of a mixture of the English and Russian languages. This is common among Russian speakers who speak English as a second language, and it is mainly spoken in post-Soviet States .
Klejn points out that in Russian, compound words are constructed differently: the main noun stands at the end and the defining word at the beginning, and gives such examples as Bogo-matier and Daz-bog, so the expected form of a name would be *Koshma. The word is indeed found in Russian, but is of Tatar origin.
Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan, who visited the premiere, said that "the Devil steered the painter's reckless hand while he was creating". Upon viewing The Beauty at its Berlin premiere at the Unter Den Linden gallery, George Loukomski , an art critic, labelled the painting "The Yaroslavlian Danaë ".