[Continued from Part 3] St Petersburg Andrei’s apartment was comfortable and spacious with room for his studio. His artistic style might be described as Post-Impressionist and there are echoes of Gauguin and Cézanne as this photo from my brother’s gallery shows. Andrei considers himself Siberian and spent...
[Continued from Part 2] Moscow Moscow, K0. Day 8. Having arranged to meet Ulrich for lunch the following day I set out for a police station to have my visa registered. Once I realised it was an ‘out of town’ station I had my guide call his...
[Continued from Part 1]IrkutskWe pulled into Irkutsk’s beautiful railway station on the west bank of the Angara at around 7pm, K5185. A tour company guide was there to drive me to Vladimir and Valya’s fairy tale house just five minutes away across the river. What...
Khabarovsk In September 2003, as I was busily settling into the bosom of retirement in Australia, I was invited to a week’s deer stalking and fly fishing on the Athol Estate in the Scottish Highlands. It wouldn’t be just a week of shooting and fishing but...