The White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia is an annual international arts festival during the season of the Midnights. Nights Festival consists of a series of classical ballet, opera and music events and includes performances by Russian dancers, singers, musicians and actors, as well as famous international guest stars. The Scarlet sails celebration is the culmination of the White Nights season,it is the largest public event anywhere in Russia and i got to go to it with the annual estimated attendance about one million people, actully now theres a 1,000,001, i never knew tht russia had so much talent. It was so crowded but it was worth it. While i was at the festival i got Okroshka is a cold soup based on kvass or, less often, sour milk. The main ingredients of both types are vegetables that can be mixed with cold boiled meat or fish. Then vegetable, meat, and fish varieties of okroshka are made.There are typically two types of vegetables in okroshka, but i only tried one.