Windows to Russia

It takes us two guys a day or two, to get back in the grove. Boza just walks around and sighs and plops down with a thud to the ground. I sigh also, but, decided that falling to the ground is dangerous for my health and sit down easily to find a seat somewhere (sameContinue reading Svetochka is gone! 🙁

Big Bears apple was stolen! The apple I have watched for a month as it grew bigger and bigger everyday. Bears apple and along came a little sneaky girl and she snatched the apple up after I finally removed it from the tree. Poor Bear, No Apple! Seriously; what a beautiful apple. I have hadContinue reading Svetochka got the prize apple…

Well, the Wells are dry! Tiny Russian Village is without water, or at least drinking water. We have I estimate 300 plus liters of water in storage, but….The main wells are dry. No one has responded to the distress calls and since it is opening duck season today, most likely we will hear nothing untilContinue reading No water Yet! Tiny Russian Village Coffee Thoughts…

Four a.m. and Boza and I walked to the big well. I got the door opened and pushed the big green on button (big red button for off.) Then crackle and pop, the sealed main power box was flashing and smoking. The amp meter was buried all the way to max draw and I justContinue reading This will be interesting at the Tiny Russian Village…

This has been my week to get gifts. The people are leaving for the winter and they come by one at a time and say goodbye and some leave gifts for me. It truly makes me want to cry, for nowhere have I ever been, that the people have embraced me as they do inContinue reading Scythe – made for me by the Tiny Russian Village People…

In Sarajevo area is the ancient monastery of St. Nicholas Bavykinsky where, destroying buildings, the Soviet atheism failed to destroy the spiritual richness and splendor of the holy place. August 6, 2016, Bishop Matthew Skopinsky and Shatsky first visited this monastery. Ruling Archpastor met: the abbot of St. Nicholas Monastery Bavykinskogo Sarajevo district – theContinue reading A visit to the monastery of St. Nicholas – Посещение святой обители святителя Николая

The guys around the Tiny Russian Village, got together and fixed up and Old Soviet Fishing Pole. The pole belonged to Nikolai when he was a little kid running around the village. The valley is full of tiny lakes and of course the Para River. This was his pole when he went fishing, if heContinue reading I was given a Soviet fishing pole!

A family that we know who comes for a few weeks in the summer, made this. Really pretty cool! It is The Tiny Russian Village! By a drone… Published on Jul 13, 2016 “Поездка в родные края с любимой семьей :)” — by the author of video… WtR

Hard to get images of Mamma Eagle. But after working and cropping this image, I got something that shows Mamma Eagle and she is after a heron! Svetochka was with me and it was so cloudy, but Mamma Eagle was in one of her moods and she was terrorizing the local bird population… Heron canContinue reading Some Photos – 08/15/2016 – TVR

Donations! Thank you and they keep this website going. They put food in Boza and my belly! They buy us supplies to rebuild the village home! They keep us going, as well as our website! I use the donations for what you ask, just as there are three donations set aside just for getting aContinue reading I want to Thank You, from WtR…