Wieniawski: le carnival des russe? What things in Russia violin player imitates?
Please Anwer me i have asked that but nobody answered that?
If, dear Tonk, you had actually phrased your Q *after* having looked the score first, you would have noticed at once that Wieniawski is using the “Carnaval” element in his title as just an any-old fancy phrase — the dog has to have a name, after all — with little or no actual meaning as regards it reflecting something specific about the content, and the ‘Russian’ element is effectively just as vague, too.)
Here’s the score:
http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/6/6f/IMSLP04335-Wieniawski-_Russian_Carnival__Op._11.pdf
The work comprises a not terrifically memorable Theme and 12 eye-poppingly pyrotechnical variations on that Theme, followed by a peroration on the original theme and a somewhat incongruously named, perfunctory 4-bar ‘Coda’. Put differently, just another bit of barnstorming, virtuoso ‘fluff’ which had to be the stock in trade of the 19thC travelling super-virtuoso. What ‘russianness’ there is to discern, if any, amounts to really very little indeed.
Come to think of it, Arban’s “Carnaval de Venise” for trumpet & orchestra is very much cut from similar cloth,
and I guess many a born & bred Venetian may well not swoon with homesickness on hearing that one either. For ‘venetian’ substitute ‘russian’ with regard to the Wieniawski, and we’re probably just as far ahead… 
All the best,
Wieniawski violin concerto No. 2 in D minor, Mov. 1
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