This is mushroom hunting, a national pastime - dare one call it a passion - which grips Russians from late August and holds them in its grip until well into October. The time has come to speak about Russia’s true national sport.įorget football, disregard hockey, and abandon judo the season of “tikhaya okhota” or silent hunt is upon us, when stalkers armed with long sticks and bark and twig “lukoshki” baskets set out through misty mornings to run their quarry to ground in the damp undergrowth of Russia’s forests.
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