The best part was, that I didn't even have to leave the country, or even the Bay area to experience a taste of the culture.
I've been in the Bay area for the past 22 years, and have always been aware of our abundant Russian population, but surprisingly somehow I have never truly been exposed to the their culture.
The festival kicked off Friday night at 5 PM with a variety of different traditional Russian food, an endless amount of different Vodka flavors, multiple vendors, and performances on the main stage.
It tends to get pretty chilly during the night in SF, so thank God everything was indoors.
While it started out slow, things began to pick up around 8 o'clock when the younger generations began flooding in for the Baltica Beer and cocktails.
On the main stage, there was a variety of different dance numbers of children in traditional Russian costumes, as well as a male acapella group, and a traditional folk band.
Though most of the narration of the show was in Russian, the festival was nothing short of welcoming to all the non-Russian visitors.
Here are some of the few highlights from the evening.
traditional Russian music on main stage
Early evening before the downstairs area was filled up.
Vatrushka - a delicious Russian desert somewhat similar to Cheesecake, kinda.
Baltica beer- more commonly seen in Eastern Europe.
beef stroganoff with meat stuffed fried bread(forgot the name), kind of like an empanada.
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