{"id":16325,"date":"2014-05-05T04:08:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16325"},"modified":"2014-05-05T04:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:08:31","slug":"california-russian-heritage-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-russian-heritage-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"California Russian Heritage Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/russcel.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traveling the California coast north of San Francisco, the signs of Russian culture are evident as you encounter a seemingly out of place <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/parks\/fort-ross-california-state-park.html\">Fort Ross State Historic Park,<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0a thriving Russian-American Company settlement from 1812 to 1841. It was chartered by Russia&#8217;s tsarist government\u00a0as the\u00a0southernmost Russian colonization in\u00a0the North American continent. Russian River, Fort Bragg and other north coast areas are steeped in\u00a0Russian history. <strong>California celebrates the exciting and colorful Russian\u00a0influence in festivals throughout the state:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WEST HOLLYWOOD Russian Style Festival\u00a0at\u00a0Plummer Park on May 18, 2014, 11 a.m.- 7 p.m., celebrates\u00a0the rich culture and heritage of the over 500,000 members of the Los Angeles region\u2019s Russian speaking community. Free entertainment, music, food vendors, Russian crafts and jewelry, and numerous local exhibitors,\u00a0 weho.org<\/li>\n<li>FORT ROSS: July 26, 2014 Fort Ross Festival multicultural celebration of the Kashaya, Russian, and Ranch era\u00a0cultures features\u00a0costumed historical re-enactments, crafts, militia cannon firings, live music &amp; dance, food court, marketplace, children\u2019s crafts and more, \u00a0 fortross.org<\/li>\n<li>HEALDSBURG: Russian Tea &amp; Fragrance Festival at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/flowers-gardens\/healdsburg-russian-river-rose.html\">Russian River Rose Co<\/a>. October 18, 2014,\u00a0russian-river-rose.com<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO Russian Festival in February, russiancentersf.com<\/li>\n<li>SARATOGA \u00a0Russian Festival,\u00a0saratogarussianfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>BELMONT: Hungarian Festival (similar to Russian festival) May 10, 2014 at Twin Pine Park,\u00a0 hungarianheritagefestival.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traveling the California coast north of San Francisco, the signs of Russian culture are evident as you encounter a seemingly out of place Fort Ross State Historic Park,\u00a0\u00a0a thriving Russian-American Company settlement from 1812 to 1841. It was chartered by Russia&#8217;s tsarist government\u00a0as the\u00a0southernmost Russian colonization in\u00a0the North American continent. Russian River, Fort Bragg and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}