A Journey into Russia Hardback
by Jens Muhling
Hardback
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When German journalist Jens Muhling met Juri, a Russian television producer selling stories about his homeland, he was mesmerized by what he heard: the real Russia and Ukraine were more unbelievable than anything he could have invented.
The encounter changed Muhling's life, triggering a number of journeys to Ukraine and deep into the Russian heartland on a quest for stories of ordinary and extraordinary people.
Away from the bright lights of Moscow, Muhling met and befriended a Dostoevskian cast of characters, including a hermit from Tayga who had only recently discovered the existence of a world beyond the woods, a Ukrainian Cossack who defaced the statue of Lenin in central Kiev, and a priest who insisted on returning to Chernobyl to preach to the stubborn few determined to remain in the exclusion zone. Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today's most significant regions.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
- Publication Date:01/07/2014
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- ISBN:9781907973949
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
- Publication Date:01/07/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781907973949
