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

"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...