Frimpong in Russia - by Sergey Korolev

Pictures by SERGEY KOROLEV
Well, it was complicated, but it was worth while ! After so many bureaucratic vicissitudes I was able to get my visa for Russia and I arrived in Moscow. You might remember I had already tried once, but I had been rejected. Uhm, to be totally honest, it was a mysterious postal adventure, more in Kafka’s style rather than in Dovstoyevsky’s one. Anyway, after a very complicated trip I manage to land to a Moscow Post Office, where my gentle new host, SERGEY KOROLEV , came to my rescue and took me to his home to recover my spirits. Winston Churchill said “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” But Sergey told me that one Russian poet, Fyodor Tyutchev, expressed the essence of this mystery in a few lines of one of his poems "You cannot understand Russia with your mind. You can't measure it with universal dimensions. Russia has something special. In Russia you must simply believe."*** I think it’s really like that

Just arrived...	Kak??? Nu, ladno!	Gogolevsky boulevard
Kamergersky drive (pereulok)	Looking for Bulgakov's spirit	Dilapidated, but evocative.
The cow of Red Square	Moskva River near the Moscow Kremlin.	Frimpong and the Red Square
Russian smart life!	In a more modest way, by bike...	Tverskaja
Coca Cola is really everywhere!	I really feel small	At computer with Sergey
First night in Siberia	Don't think bad, I'm only trying to learn Russian!	So this is Yugorsk!
Past and present	Sergey, are you sure the pressure is under control???	Frimpong in the Taiga
Siberian mushroom and international bear	My Russian friends!	DO SVIDANIYA!!!!