More Russians!
If you didn’t get enough sour cream and pierogis at the St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Festival, mark your calendars for St. John the Baptist’s Annual Russian Bazaar on September 30 & October 1st. The food’s a smidge different with more pirozhki, no pierogi (ack!), and a heavy hand with the kasha (buckwheat - mmmm), but you can find similar staples like stuffed cabbage and borscht. St. Andrew’s festival is definitely larger with an impressive assortment of Ukrainian dancers, singers and even folk violinist, but at St. John’s you can do shots of herb-infused vodka with the priest for a buck. I’m saving my dollar bills.
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
Annual Russian Bazaar
http://www.russianbazaar.org/