{"id":28,"date":"2024-04-04T02:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/onion-road-and-russian-old-believers\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:49:20","slug":"onion-road-and-russian-old-believers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/onion-road-and-russian-old-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"The onion road and Russian Old Believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Textbody\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Price 46 EUR, duration 4-5h, 14 July<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We will drive through the villages of Russian Old Believers Varnja \u2013 Kasep\u00e4\u00e4 \u2013 Kolkja. In Kolkja we will visit a local farm, get acquainted with the old traditions of growing onions and have a traditional onion pie with tea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sure, the Onion Road might sound like a slightly offensive Eastern European equivalent of the Yellow Brick Road from\u00a0<em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/em>, but not so fast! It\u2019s actually a 30-kilometre-or-so stretch of road spanning the southern coast of Lake Peipus, inhabited by Russian Old Believers who are famed for growing beautiful golden onions.\u00a0Sample delicious salted fish, wash it down with local moonshine and if you\u2019re not blind or dead by the morning, listen as Aleksey from the neighbouring village passionately explains why things were so much better during the Soviet times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-677\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/165\/hurr_durr_sibul2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"188\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-676\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/165\/hurr_durr_sibul.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"176\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">We also visit Kolkja Museum of Russian Old Believers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-679\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/165\/hurr_durr_sibul4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-678\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/165\/hurr_durr_sibul3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"163\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\">You can see the traditional clothes, everyday items, handicrafts, tools, photos, books and many other items associated with the Old Believers. The Russian Old Believers \u2013 <em>starovery<\/em> \u2013 have been following their religious traditions rigorously for more than a 1000 years. There are 11 congregations of Old Believers with approximately 15,000 members in Estonia. The Lake Peipus area \u2013 Mustvee, Kallaste, Kolkja, Kasep\u00e4\u00e4, Varnja, Piirissaar \u2013 is the main area where Old Believers live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bus trip lasts about 4-4,5 hours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price 46 EUR, duration 4-5h, 14 July We will drive through the villages of Russian Old Believers Varnja \u2013 Kasep\u00e4\u00e4 \u2013 Kolkja. In Kolkja we will visit a local farm, get acquainted with the old traditions of growing onions and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/iclc14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}