"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." --Anton Chekhov

  "I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literat...

"Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many the...

We found the bakery. It was there all along. Like Brigadoon. We sat down and enjoyed some rather splendid baked goods and coffee. Then I g...

Soviet resolution to build The Metro We take the glorious Metro! The people's Palace of underground delights.  The Moscow Metro ( ...

"You're sixty years old. Medicine won't help." - Anton Chekhov * * * Later exhausted and drained from our "v...

12 August 2009 Moscow Tired. We walked nearly 12 kilometers yesterday and I slept like the dead. Vadim is an angel of hospitality, and w...

At the post office to register our visas. Whoa . What a torment. An avalanche of paperwork and government bureaucracy required to visi...

We arrive in to town and our first stop is certain: the iconic and stunning Red Square. Krásnaya plóshchad (Кра́сная пло́щадь). It ...

11 August 2009 Moscow Day one. доброе утро! Good morning Moscow, and what a glorious, clear day. Having (somewhat) recovered from...

"His name is Emmanuelle..." he chews on the name like a sour taste. He wets and purses his mouth, scrunches his shoulders, The f...

Mankind is looking for something, and will certainly find it. Oh, if it only happened more quickly. - Anton Chekhov There is a moment o...

10 August, 2009 Moscow In Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don't know anybody and where nobody knows you, and ...

10 August, 2009 Moscow This story cannot be told without first telling you of Vadim. The facts are these: He is a family man of perhap...