Windows to Russia

I have been working on the only image that I have seen or found of the original church. I realize that the Orthodox may have an archive with more and better images in it, but I have never seen better than this. I have seen much worse and that is what drove me to image […]

I posted this transcript, for it is probably one of the most important speeches given by an individual in modern times. Russia is really all that is standing between the east and west and World War Three. This is serious and Putin lays it all out for you to see, if you open your eyes […]

I got up at 4:30 am and started the process of dragging my wagon wheel. It is huge, heavy and beautiful. It also is my wagon wheel and I will fight for it… 🙂 I know Sveta will be upset with me (she was not 🙂 though) and as I predicted, Boza just ignored me […]

“Our partners, especially in the United States, have always been formulating their geopolitical and state interests coherently and clearly, pursuing these interests in a steadfast manner, and adjusting the rest of the world to their [interests] according to the famous wording “Those who are not with us are against us!”” Putin said… Once upon a […]

I am working on getting this wagon wheel up the hill, a big steep hill. Maybe Sveta can help me when she comes Friday, for the hill is long and the wheel is very heavy, the spokes are steel and the middle hub is cast iron. I found it while walking with Boza and have […]

I have a very large readership that is connected to Washington DC and the Kremlin both. Neither side pays me (hint, hint and more hint), but they read the blog and they at times respond. Sometimes the response is okay and most of the time the response is in attack form, always from the DC […]

Russian cameraman and journalist Anatoly Klyan, was fatally wounded in the stomach and died Sunday night. Along with a few other journalists, he had boarded a bus full of women (mostly mothers,) who were traveling to a Ukraine military base in Donetsk to demand that their sons be dismissed from the unit and allowed to […]

I did not think gates would be so soon, but they are serious and getting gates installed at the Bell Tower. They are pretty good, but definitely not near as heavy as the original. That is a sad sign of times and quality suffers in this day and age… I enjoy watching what they are […]

What the hell are you people going to do when Obama is gone, and everything stays exactly the same? Get off it already! You may not mind being a tool of the status quo, but there are plenty of us who do mind and want things to change. The status quo has to go and […]

A train ride in Russia is a wonderful experience and no two rides are the same. Sveta sent me this picture of what she saw as she spent 6 hours on a train, coming to the village… A train in Russia is so common place that it is “home away from home” and that is […]