And Peter is a Distant Second
Like St Petersburg can compare to Massive Moscow! Kazan Cathedral Time for a Taste Test! You find a remonted window! Laura looking into the future There are many city rivalries in this world, New York vs. Los Angeles, London vs. Paris, Singapore vs. Hong Kong, but none I find as…
Read MoreInvest in Russia?!
You’ll have better luck at the casinos! December 29, 1998 Associated Press Foreign Investment in Russia Drops MOSCOW — Direct foreign investment in Russia plummeted this year to $2 billion, half its level in 1997, an Economics Ministry official said Tuesday, quoted by a news agency. The numbers reflected investors’…
Read MoreThe Zen of the Line
Some days it actually pays to wait in line I took the hydrofoil instead And this is an orderly line The day before I left I my journey along the Volga River cities, my friend Dave asked me how I felt to be traveling all the time. I know his…
Read MoreBut He Went by the Name of Lenin
A visit to beginning of it all: Lenin’s home town Lenin in his Red Period Hide from the storm in a cafe At least the tramvai is close In the late 1800’s, a young man came into the world by the name of Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in the town of…
Read MoreThat Looks Just Like My Dom
I never could find my way around Toglatti! One small part of the factory See any similarities? Pick one, any one And not just cars either! Sometime in the 1600’s a city was founded on the shores of the Volga River, just down a bit from where I am sitting….
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