epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Bullough [Bullough, Oliver]

WINTER 8 It’s like a plague A Russian train in winter is a far better place than the same train in summer. With snow and the long dark night outside, ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Thom Wheeler

8 Heartlands “Space, in the end, may be all you remember of Novosibirsk.” COLIN THUBRON The morning after our arrival in Novosibirsk we headed for breakfast in an institutional Soviet-style ...

epub |eng | 2003-11-23 | Author:Chris Hatherly

Riding the Taiga Bratsk – Ulan Ude Mid-Summer 2000 ——— Tim We drifted into the city of Bratsk amid haphazard traffic of Landcruisers, Ladas and trucks; they swerved about trying ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lonely, Planet

Petrograd & Vyborg Sides Petrograd Side | Vyborg Side For more detail of this area, see Click here Neighbourhood Top Five See the final resting place of the Romanovs, climb ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Zamoskvorechie Sights | Eating | Drinking & Nightlife | Shopping Entertainment Strelka Institute for Architecture, Media & Design Art Centre Offline map Google map (www.strelkainstitute.ru; Bersenevskaya nab 14/5; Kropotkinskaya) This ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Khabarovsk to Vladivostok 8523-9200km All trains from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok depart during the evening, leaving you mostly in the dark for the final 13 hours of your Trans-Siberian odyssey. One ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Catherine the Great [Great, Catherine the]

Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseevna (the future Catherine the Great) wearing the Order of St. Catherine (1745). GEORG CHRISTOPH GROOTH Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseevna and Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich (1744 – ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Frazier

The urban or semi-urban landscape we had entered now became continuous. Soon we were in the valley of the great Angara River, approaching Irkutsk. The air turned smoky and gray, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-24 | Author:Colin Thubron

That night I was startled awake. Stepan, drunk, had blundered across the room and grabbed for his bag of belongings on the wall. In the frame of our window, blocking ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-09-09 | Author:Colin Angus

Wednesday, June 20 Amid a haze of mosquitoes and blackflies, Ben struggled to make a breakfast of rice pudding. An outboard motor, humming like an enormous mosquito, resonated in the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-14 | Author:Simon Richmond

* * * VOLOGDA BUS SERVICES * * * From the train station (720 643; pl Babushkina 8) around seven daily services run to Moscow (8½ to 9½ hours) of ...

mobi |eng | 1989-01-02 | Author:John Steinbeck; Susan Shillinglaw; Robert Capa

It does no good. He is obviously distraught, and he is very much in love with the slovenly, no-good girl. He does not know what to do. Shall he give ...