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to the russian golden ring to. find a story. and a quiet way. russia's golden ring cities are some of the most beautiful and historic in the country this is russia or is 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 our first stop 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 type of person. this is pretty much paradise because this is the home of the northern hope. and as we're about to see its like a united nations of races right here it comes from. 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 dogs through dog sledding 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. premier. this is pretty much what i do when i'm training him. i find that exhibiting dogs at shows is great fun. what and 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 this is the view of mother nature changes completely and so does your treatment of the animal world. and he's certainly popular with the residents do. you see he's really fond of having his belly. 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 i'm told of the starting line to put them on the stall to. see how 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. 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. everything's ok he invent carrow and check the dogs over to make sure they're still

in fine fettle and that no rules have been broken there to do a little inspection really very shy and he. took it you know it's ok. terry's at cia people tend to do what he says. thank you once all the teams were through it was a race back to the finish line to see the dogs in and it was a homegrown russian team who picks up the onus. the mushers headed off to celebrate and it was time for me to make my way into custer ma but you can't exactly fly down a taxi and these power. that i cared. for her father of us were 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 travelers. but the much just be an ulterior motive if you're on the hof suggests a romantic weekend yet. this is russia's jewelry capital producing around twenty five percent of the country's goals and they turn out sparkle as a myth. 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. one of the workers have a design it's called into a mold and then that's used to make a three d. wax model. squeezy very hauled. into this. so there's enough. to wait for the magic to happen. so that when the show is off to the metal. scene and gold fantasy 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 it's time to start adding the bow you know with the. casting the flask is placed here. and a few hours later you go to stocking filler fit for a millionaire the original you there was waxing near but notes gold in dead one has to still work. with heavy snow 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 a lady who knows her linen but getting the flex to the loom is a drawn out process initially it's pick by hand from the fields before being crushed in a wooden growing to release threads. this was a stool 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. we once it's fine enough to thread a 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 it. to a six year old girl so i'm

a little bit late so much can do in keeping everything but it wasn't all work in the plane apparently the spinning was really an excuse for a good gossip i would not only 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 told 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 an arc to it. and here you go. you want to believe it when you look at it but actually this using the to do fun is far easier than spilling 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 every day clothes and clothes and

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 left in 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. he was called a son and his name was 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 for mom 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. 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 any closer than the polls were starting to get angry. as the story goes through sun and refused to continue telling the poles he would never betray his prints and there was only ever going to have one outcome. so. you can see what happened. but the poles by now were so hopelessly lost that they never made it out of the forest we heil was crowned and events the sun him wrote himself into the legend of the russian. fortunately our van 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. if you go right across the swamp clearings in that direction you'll find me here i'm on of there. we have to do is ask nicely. russia's first roman was back within the city limits. see i knew that society was really a trustworthy fellow is the polls really a go and it's a fun romanov this is where they should have been looking. this is the apache of mana stream probably the most famous building in. 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 i came here to pay homage to the place where the dentistry began. to son in that come good and i was all set for a date with another local cause from all celebrity. it can hit dr swan's policeman swines ministers' wives i just prayed that 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 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. says. welcome to the current big splash in the world of high tech business what turns advanced science into i judging products just don't understand all these things kept the fall of russian invaders to easy bidders abroad and their favorite through back. spotlight on start up on technology update here on all. we've got the future covered.

back 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 worst santa claus maybe more of a solo artist but his russian counterpart for the frost is almost never seen without. the snow and ostrosky roaches fairy tale while living in the city and unsurprisingly the town has a real soft spot for their icy places this go and see if she's at 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 so much excitement of life. she has 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 her fits to answer emails from around the world and as the star of her own fairy tale she's surrounded by other characters from slavic mythology right our forefathers believed that each of us has a guardian angel well 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 us. is the patron saint of. the market is the mother. then one side whispered a few words of thanks to a particularly big good god it's nagorski said she was taking me to a favorite room in the house. i should have expected this really.

is so they don't risk going to relax after a hard day's work is going to be in a. game cocktail and there may not be many reindeer to pull cynical it's because sleigh when she's out and about and cost her mom a deep in the local woods there are certainly some animals who'd be up to the tosca . this is costa mars moves in 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 sansom. there are thirty seven moose here and they each have a thousand hectares of land to explore in fact the only fence there is to prevent them wandering out onto the roads there are 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 because of the you take the axe.

is that you go ahead or simple. it seems only fair. to. keep here with. trying to repair a bit of the moose's favorite food and this. aspen bog. is absolutely most favorite treat. they 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 have zero interest

in smell. that you think. you. but i believe a new thread. in ok that won't go. once i've 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 thursday salt. hundreds of years ago there used to be mines here but back then only the very rich could afford to buy it. in the singing lists used to be worth its weight in gold. could even buy

a house dome. so it became more affordable it was offered to the churches in these to gift. branches and the russian soft drink together and 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 salts. so we leave it there for a few hours the fish be ready. the soldiers covered and states taken to the church to be part of easter celebrations. now we're going to place the salt in here. this is really just the start. once it's been blessed by the priest every member of the. a little.

supposed to cure ills and protect the family for the whole of the next year. 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 back and spend a relaxing off noodle belike 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 footwear. jacket.

rights and most important i had to keep your head more of a right so i think i was ready. 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 elbow hit 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 the word so. it's not easy when you're

dealing with my space but all true good work with the drill i did eventually awesome. that's 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. a. day that is crazy. you wouldn't believe i swear to god i've been fishing so many never actually managed to get that quickly. but it's not easy. so i do you can it feeds too many people. for small dinner appetizer but little did i know

this was just the beginning. this is absolutely crazy. it is 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 the treats. saying i thought i was just here to kill some time to relax you never going to catch. the. group. 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. he had come prepared at. least and then. just a symbolic drop bad surprise. it will keep us warmer as well. that's just medicinal obviously. this is definitely a very good idea to irish up. a months 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. russians golden ring city to 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 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 on the wide open spaces for those looking to just leave it all behind.