Windows to Russia

Woke up kinda sad this morning. Sveta leaves today and a bunch of villagers are leaving this weekend. My buddy Nikolai and his wife will take off this weekend and not be back until next summer. Nikolai went to the Big Village Tuesday on one last trip for this year. He had so much fun […]

Summer is an interesting thing in Russia. There just is not a summer most years. Seriously, there has not been over a week that anyone could swim in the lakes this year. Oh, some diehards decided to try to, they ended up sitting on the beach in their swimsuits shivering.  Now as I looked this […]

Sveta is so happy to be here and she will stay until Wednesday. This is good and she will take a whole bunch of new pictures for me to use. She looks at life different than I do and thus, takes different images. Like below… She loved the flowers and thus the village in the […]

I have been getting ready for Sveta to come to the village and I picked her up late last night at a very busy train station in the Big Village. People everywhere, getting on and getting off the trains. It was good to see my sweetie get here safe… I have lots to do and […]

They dug up the monastery grounds and removed much of the tunnel system. It was a hazard and needed done, for the young were finding the entrances. That includes me… 🙂 I knew about them years ago, but now after they found the main chamber, they dug it up, removed the items inside, hauled off […]

Now I understand the connections that Vova has. I knew he had friends everywhere, but how high I did not know. I have a friend now up high and it is someone I met a few years ago. I guess you need to read this article first; (http://windowstorussia.com/travel-in-russia-are-you-a-spy-and-other-thoughts-part-1.html) Errrr, well actually you need to read […]

Looks like my experiment yesterday failed. I tried to post a video by a normal method and at first it worked, then quit. Now I can not get it to work, so, I will start over again and revamp what I am doing. It seems that I will have to install a better system to […]

Today lets learn to say goodbye in Russia… Just click the video and you will find a pleasant young lady telling you how to tell everyone goodbye in Russian. It is not hard and is a very usable word if you ever come to Russia and in fact, I am going to be posting these […]

In an old shed, at an empty village home, we have a home-made plow. Made by hand, pulled by a donkey or horse and to plow the earth to grow food. The shack being lived in by vagrants in the recent past and ransacked for anything of value to people who drink and do drugs, […]

No. I’m Not Going to the Reeducation Camp by John Stanton “…if you sit around and wait for the one who is in power to make up his mind that he should end it, you’ll be waiting a long time. And in my opinion the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, and whatever else there […]