Questions & Answers about Летом мы едем на свадьбу к двоюродной сестре.
In Russian, some time expressions are used without a preposition and in the instrumental case to mean “in / during” a period of time.
Common examples:
- летом – in (the) summer
- зимой – in (the) winter
- осенью – in (the) autumn
- весной – in (the) spring
- ночью – at night
- утром – in the morning
So летом already means “in summer”. Saying в летом is ungrammatical in standard Russian.
Летом is the instrumental singular of лето (summer).
The instrumental is used here in a time expression to mean “during summer / in summer”. It’s a fixed pattern:
- лето → летом
- зима → зимой
- ночь → ночью
So the structure is: [time word in instrumental] + [main clause] to say when something happens.