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Russia 2005 – Petersburg and Vytegra

Russia 2005 – Petersburg and Vytegra. Michael Makin. My 2005 trip to Russia.

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Russia 2005 – Petersburg and Vytegra

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  1. Russia 2005 – Petersburg and Vytegra Michael Makin

  2. My 2005 trip to Russia • In October of last year I flew to St Petersburg, where my very good friend Vasyamet me at the airport, and took me to his cottage in Lemovzhe for the weekend. After a day back in St Petersburg, we headed to Vytegra, (Vologda oblast’), for the annual Klyuev symposium.

  3. The River Luga at Lemovzhe was beautiful, but predictably unkind to me (I caught nothing)

  4. Maybe when Vasya fills the carp pond at his dacha, I’ll finally catch something….

  5. Lunch in Café Stolle back in St Petersburg was not to be missed

  6. Nor was the view from the apartment of Ksenya, Vasya’s oldest daughter

  7. After a couple of days in Lemovzhe and St Petersburg, it was off to Vytegra for the Klyuevskie chteniya Vasya drove me in his brand-new Jeep Cherokee to Vytegra, and before the chteniya began we took a trip to Gakusa, from where a fisherman took us to the Muromskii Monastery. We stopped at Saminskii Pogost along the way to Gakusa.

  8. Early on a frosty October morning at Saminskii Pogost

  9. At Gakusa, across the Karelian border From here we took a motor boat up the canal, past the huge cranberry bog, through Lake Murom, and on to a fishing settlement by the shores of Lake Onega

  10. Down the canal, with a bitter wind blowing

  11. Then a walk along the shore of Onega to the Monastery

  12. The Muromskii Monastery

  13. Its remaining buildings are slowly being restored

  14. On the left: the building within which formerly sat the Chapel of St Lazarus, now on Kizhi. On the right: myself, Vasya, the Abbot of the Monastery, and Vytegra author Venya Tampio

  15. Lunch at the fishermen’s settlement

  16. After the day at the monastery there was also time for fishing, but success was … limited

  17. I visited the Vytegra College of Forestry and gave an informal lecture

  18. Symposium participants visited Makachevo…

  19. … and both Vytegra schools

  20. This year’s Symposium was small, but as successful as ever

  21. I spent my last evening in Russia eating roast bear at Ksenya’s apartment

  22. And then it was back to Dexter

  23. Where major family events awaited

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