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a chorus of clinking glasses from which we're at the moment two and a half hours away always more news from us at all t. dot com. russia's golden ring cities are some of the most beautiful and historic in the country this is russia as it used to be filled with churches ancient architecture and the gentler pace of life. and one of the jewels in the crown is. just a four hour drive from its original campus all the time to just over a quarter of a million people and it is on the banks of the great fold the river. now when i knew it was coming to cost her mom was expecting a few relaxing days of sightseeing and strolling through the city so it was a bit of a surprise when it was a wild and windy village and there was an eerie howling in the background. this may

not look like the most hospitable weather but if you are certain. this is pretty much paradise because this is the home of the northern hope center and as we're about to see it's like a united nations of races right here in. this is no ordinary project mushers have traveled here from australia canada and the usa because as well as putting on contests northern hope is a refuge and therapy center for young people but i'm really well known for mentoring of teenagers in life through the dog through dog bombers flown all the way from california to take part of the work that i do with teenagers in america is very similar to what she does with the boys is using the dogs as a way for the boys to be able to reconnect with other people so it's a great way a great lesson to teach them about being self-confident and truthful and focus and

determination and you can teach that by using the dogs as an example of how well you're doing with that. this is pretty much what i do when i'm training him. i find that exhibiting dogs at shows is great fun. day to day handling of dogs is also very interesting. i'm told as someone who's felt the benefits first time and he came to live at the center three years ago and is now a qualified race referee he says it's really turned his on the other boys lives around you of mother nature changes completely and so does your treatment of the animal world. and he suddenly popular with the residents. say you see he's really fond of having his belly. out but in the ok let's go home.

there were plenty of last minute preparations going on this is a long race and the dogs have to be checked over thoroughly before they get going. until you are literally straining at the least these guys this car way to get stuff . this is thing is sleepy and. once they've been given the go ahead it was over to imes all of the starting line to put them on the start. to have barbara and her team hit leading the way for the international races and you can see some of the dogs wearing the latest and stylish fashion and. fifty kilometers to go. to the dogs have. their teams race at intervals through forests track and i headed out to join chief referee terry at the halfway point ask her if she's ok if you think yes yes everything's ok he invent caroling check the dogs over to make sure they're still

in fine fettle and that no rules have been broken we're going to do a little inspection to get a very shiny. look you know it's ok. terry's at cia so people tend to do what he says. ok i think you want to look two years with through it was a race back to the finish. flying to see the dogs in and it was a home grown russian team who picks up the onus. of. the mushers headed off to celebrate and it was time for me to make my way into coaster. but you can't exactly fly down a taxi and these power. travel . history

dates back almost nine hundred years and when you take a walk through the city center it's easy to see why this is a major attraction for trouble. but the much is be an ulterior motive the future of the hof suggests a romantic weekend yet. this is russia's jewelry capital producing around twenty five percent of the country's goals. in the thousands. one of the region's biggest factories employs nearly eight hundred people and i've been invited to see how a ring makes it from the drawing board to the display case. once the workers have a design it's called and. that's used to make a three d. . squeezy very hauled. into this you. can wait for the magic to happen. so that when it goes off to the metal. scene and go. but when you're dealing with hundreds of rings at

a time you need to find a way to speed up the process each model is attached to a miniature christmas tree which is covered with plaster and then its. value. casting the flask is placed here. and a few hours later you go to stocking filler fits. for a million. original you there was waxing near but notes gold and dead one host journeyed can still work. with imagine they'd be so heavy it's not just have to cut these items from the fir tree into release them into production a my ring just needed to have it stone fitted to make someone very special. ok so maybe it's not quite my style but you don't have to be rich to pick up an authentic cost from a souvenir. the region is also the center of russia's linen industry they've been spinning and refining it here for centuries on the local tech so museum is home to

a group of ladies who still make clothing the old fashion way. move over to the museum director and the lady who knows her linen but getting the flax to the loom is a drawn out process initially it's picked by hand from the fields before being crushed in a wooden growing to release threads. that this was a stroll now it's a bunch of thread one of the threads of broken down that comb through with a variety of implements including a brush which looked like it would be more of a home in a torture chamber rather than a house be careful with that when. once it's fine enough the thread is spool into a launch spin up although you definitely need nimble fingers than mine to do this properly yet and just keep doing it since heart of the looks apparently. used to give the. spinning wheel to a six year old girl so middle bit late so much i think i'm doing keep doing it but

it wasn't all work and play apparently the spinning was really an excuse for a good gossip i would not really between twelve and fifteen girls at the time were excited by side their tongues were in few and with this being well as they spawn aren't they only tales same songs and the boys to pieces the trends of died with fruit and vegetable juices and then they're ready for the loom. it was common for the women to work fourteen hours a day preparing new clothes and there is a bit of a knack to it. and. you wouldn't believe it would you to look at it but actually this using the to do fun is far easier than splitting the thread. the same i get stuck. on after all that effort the family have a wardrobe to be proud of the ladies would make everyday clothes and clothes for

special occasions apparently a beautiful set like this would take about a week solid labor of course really i need some trousers to go with it but i think my hands it's going to take me about six months so i'm going to leave the girls to do what they do best. with more than five hundred dotted around the town you could spend days checking out all of costermongers historic and cultural monuments but there's one figure in the city whose statue and reputation stand head and shoulders above the others. it was called a son and his name has become a russian by word for patriotism and bravery and there are always people ready to tell his story. back in the early seventeenth century of the russian nobility had just elected the first romanov zombie high heel to take the vacant crown the young prince was living in cost ramana and he needed to travel to moscow to be crowned. there were several other people who want to the throne for themselves and the king of poland said mercenaries to come and find the heil romanov and kill him but they

hadn't reckoned with. it once a saw him was a local peasant living in the region and when the polish troops approached he offered to take them into the woods and to me. but he had a surprise in store sauna and led the poles deep into the forest they were supposed to spend almost a day walking through the trees and heading towards the swamps. but make no romanov didn't seem to be getting in. the closer in the polls starting to get angry. as the story goes through son and refused to continue telling the pols he would never betray his prints and then was only ever going to have one outcome. so you can see what happened to poor yvonne but the polls by now were so hopelessly lost that they never made it out of the forest we heil was crowned and once the sun him wrote himself into the legend of the russian. fortunately our yvonne was able

to make a miraculous recovery but maybe the poles have been going about it in the wrong way . this is the sun and telephone. if you go right across the swamp and the clearings in that direction you'll find me here i'm on of there. we have to do is also nicely then it turns out russia's first roman was back within the city limits. see i knew that society was really a trustworthy fellow as the poles really had wanted to find a hollow roman of this is where they should have been. this is the apache of ministry probably the most famous building in custer mom it's hardly changed in almost seven hundred years and the house is the main attraction. and they have a rather bryce a paint job now but this was the house where the young lived with his mother and

every roman of since came here to pay homage to the place where the dentistry began . to son and had come goods and i was all set for a date with another local cost from all celebrity. culture is that so much of me is going to make a lot of people here you have been looking at what a year it was if anything two thousand can show this just how fragile the world is was a. sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched the street fight. to fly in from the colonel of the chilian on forces participated in keeping down

a military revolt. a sergeant in the u.s. army. tried to become an american by getting part in the. ranks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey. in the nineteenth century it was home to the famous russian playwright alexander ostrosky. and he's responsible for popularizing the legend of one of the country's most famous folk characters in the west santa claus maybe more of a solo artist but his russian counterpart for the frost is almost never seen without smoke gorged this moment ostrosky roaches fairy tale while living in the city and unsurprisingly the town has a real soft spot there i see places this is

a home to support your ladies you can see. her as having a break from father frost she lives here in her own house she's one of the city's most popular attractions and shows her visitors the much a side of life see. several hopeless including a particularly entertaining them very well spoken cat and when the last children had gone home she was kind enough to offer me a private tour. as you might expect for a snow maiden she has an entire room dedicated to christmas trees made by children from local schools but also with. e-mails from around the world and as the star of her own fairy tale she's surrounded by other characters from slavic mythology i write our forefathers believed that each of us has a guardian angel while at the end these are the helpers ancients laddie gods for

example fido is the god of the labor helps us to work he has bestowed various crafts on. you know one is the patron saint of optic heroes. then one side whispered a few words of thanks to a particularly big gold it's nagorski said she was taking me to her favorite room in the house. i should have expected this really. is. going to relax after a hard day's work. because most of my screen cocktail. there may not be many reindeer to pull cynical it's because sleigh when she's out and about. the deep in the local woods there are certainly some animals who'd be up to the tosca. this is. a forty year old project that was originally designed to try and domesticate these

huge animals but since the collapse of the soviet union it's been used as a breeding sensor. there are thirty seven moose here and they each have a thousand hectares of land to explore in fact the only fence here is to prevent them wandering out onto the roads they're around ten full time staff that look after the animals and when you've got appetites like these to take care of you can always use another pair of hands they don't support you take the axe. go ahead or simple. it seems only fair. then why keep here with. trying to repair a bit of the moose is favorite food and this. aspen bog. is absolutely most favorite treat their one hundred i doubt if that's an

indictment of my cats igs they'd rather the stuff that's on the floor. oh ok. i'll put it there for dessert. enjoy. the herd will stay here for the whole winter before moving off when the weather heats up but for now they're very happy to lounge around and enjoy the easy pickings and explore the old stranger who comes into their midst they have zero interest in smell. that you think. you. ok. go for in see this. also i managed to turn myself away from my new

admirer i headed to a nearby town to take in a rather special ceremony. this is a region that's filled with churches and still has a highly religious population and every easter the people make a unique product mourn the thursday salt. hundreds of years ago they used to be mine but back then only the very rich could afford to buy it. in the senior list used to be worth its weight in gold a sack of thought could even buy a house dome. so it became more affordable it was offered to the church as a nice to gift. breads and the russian soft drink together that added to the salt but then goes into the oven and once the mixture has toasted it's all saved the day. the grain turns into ashes that's how you get thirst is black salt let's. leave it there for

a few hours if you should be ready. the soldiers covered and states taken to the church to be part of the easter celebrations. now we're going to place the salt in here. this is really just the. old ones it's been blessed by the priest every member of the. a little. supposed to cure ills and protect. for the whole of the. it turned out to be a busy few days and cost from zero but i was determined to fit in a little all in all before heading back to moscow. and if you're a man in this city there's one place everyone goes to get away from it all. sightseeing i thought it was definitely tell him to come kick back and spend

a relaxing office nude on the lake but this is the middle of the russian winter so i do need to make a few slight adjustments. over again there you go and fish and. you're all ok except for the way that you're dress ok fine any different clothes but that's all right we have everything you need. khalid's coal fisherman the right foot wear. a jacket. rights and most important i had to keep your head more of a right so i think i was reading. you gave me and his friends come fishing here almost every week and with temperatures well below freezing it pays to wrap up warm . right this is much more suitable i think you're going to have to really go ok and now that you've got the right al bit and everything for fishing the box with the

rods for the roads in here. and a drill to make a hole in the ice very important and then we were ready to head out onto the ice apparently there were some spots the better than others for fish out here if you can find. i didn't like. you to find some way to get so worked so. it's not easy when you're dealing with ice base but all true good work out with the drill i did eventually. almost. seventy cents miss is the danger of falling through so we had a whole we had a delicious plate now surely that be the endless hours of waiting talk about the way.

that it's crazy. to. you when you leave i swear to god i've been fishing so many never actually managed to get that quickly that it's not easy. i do going to feeds too many people. for small dinner appetizer but little did i know this was just the beginning. of. your. second in about thirty seconds. james of the james has all the makings of a skilled fisherman the fish can't get away. new baits to treat.

and i thought i was just here to kill some time to relax you never going to catch any fish. with. you again he left me to my own devices and this really seems to be the point of spending time out here you're alone with your thoughts in one of the most beautiful places in the region and the daily grind seems like a million miles away. could really get you through this peaceful tranquil place. with good thoughts even if you don't. but that doesn't mean you don't get colds. and then. just the symbolic drop bad surprise. it will keep us warm or as

well. if it's just medicinal obviously. this is definitely a very good idea to irish up i think. we've bagged up a few more fish it was time to head back to shore and get cooking. on the day on the ice. and some freshly made. rushes golden ring cities are some of the most beautiful and historic in the

country this is russia as it used to be filled with churches ancient architecture and the gentle pace of life and one of the jewels in the crown is. just a four hour drive from moscow to its original campus all the time to just over a quarter of a million people and then on the banks of the great fold the river. is the perfect place for a little russian escapism the city is reminiscent of a bygone era with enough history and tradition for a cultural tool in the wide open spaces for those looking to just leave it all behind. it can hit dr swines policeman swines ministers why not just. if you didn't find me if i could slip through the night that i would get my kids

out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him i'm in jail or he's going to kill it it seems. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operation today.