and they're living on what i knew at the cossacks strong independent traditions were disliked by the communists they were suppressed and marginalized since the end of the soviet union they've been trying to rebuild the self-sufficient way of life especially when it comes to resisting the bad habits of city their news richard it's no easy matter living in the country of course but on the other hand we're protected from the harm of the city from drugs alcohol smoking cigarettes but tonight at least the elders of the village were allowing themselves a few liberties tom bottomed potty. about with a recap of the headlines in just a few minutes a day stay with. very

warm welcome back from a new. spend some time in traffic jams as frozen rain paralyzes the capital the day. stream and rested in force in the country's biggest terrorism. the e.u. is not doing enough to beat the threat. to its massive offense they

get sick gaza israel says it's easing the blockade but locals feel. kolsky is to spend six more years behind to being. on money. on the world wide welcome to twenty eleven the bright star of the new year with. a journey back in time with our discovering russia series. 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 i first stop was a wild and windy village and there was an eerie howling in the background. this will look like the most hospitable weather but if you are certain type of person. this is pretty much power to us because this is the home of the northern hope center and as we're about to see its like a united nations of races right here in. this is no wooden reportage mushers have traveled here from australia canada on 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 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. what you post and day to day handling of dogs use is also very interesting. on tone 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 he. said 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 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. rather than they. are the dogs have. the teams race at intervals through for a strike and i headed out to join chief referee terry at the halfway point ask her if she's ok if you think yeah yeah 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 sticker shock he. took it you know it's ok. terry is that cia so people tend to do what he says. ok i think you want to look teams were through it was a race back to the finish. flying to see the dogs 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 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 just 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. and that. 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 and. that's used to make a three d. . squeezy very hall. into this you. can wait for the magic to happen. so that when to. go. 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've got a stocking filler fits. for a millionaire or for it you know you there was waxing near but no it's gold and dad wanted his journey to still work. because he would 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 from a souvenir. the region is also the center of russia's linen industry they've been spinning and refining it here for centuries and the local textile 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. this was a stool now it's a bunch of thread one of the threads of broken down that comb through with the

writing of implements including a brush which looked like it had been more of a home in a torture chamber rather than a house be careful with that when. 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 says heart of the looks that apparently. used to give the. spinning wheel to a six year old girl so i'm a little bit late so much can do you think i'm doing everything right but it wasn't all work and no play 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 saying 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 an act 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 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 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 coaster marks historical 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 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 zam a high heel to take the vacant crown the young prince was living in cost ramon and he needed to travel to moscow to be crowned. there were several other people who wanted 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 make. 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 to poor yvonne but the polls by now were so hopelessly lost they never made it out of the forest we heil was crowned and events to sign him wrote himself into the legend of the russian people 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. in that direction you'll find on of there. we have to do is. russia's first was back within the city limits.

so. it was really. as the poles really. this is where they should have been which. this is the apache of monastery probably the most famous building in. it's hardly changed in almost seven hundred years and 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 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 a local celebrity. wealthy british.

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back in the nineteenth century it was home to the famous russian playwright alexander ostrowski. 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 the frost is almost never seen without 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 do is. to support your lady as you can see . her is 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 excitement of life. 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 a still answer emails from around the world and as the star of her own fairy tale she's surrounded by other characters from slavic mythology i want our forefathers

believed that each of us has a guardian angel while at the end these are the helpers ancients lobby 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 our big heroes. then one side whispered a few words of thanks to a particularly big gold sniggers because said she was taking me to us. favorite room in the house. i should have expected this really. is. going to relax after a hard day's work. i screamed past a little chink and there may not be many reindeer to pull cynical it's because sleigh when she's out and about in. the deep in the local woods there are certainly some animals who'd be up to the toss. this is. a forty year

old project that was originally designed to trying to mr kate is huge animals but since the collapse of the soviet union it's been used as a breeding sensor. there are thirty seven moose 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 there 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 taking x. . if they go ahead what you boys simple but. it seems only fair. to. keep with. trying to repair a bit of the moose's favorite food and this. aspen block. is

absolutely most favorite treat their one hundred dead 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. i 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. it's. ok to let go and see with. what 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 be thursday salt. hundreds of years ago they used to be sold. but back then only the very rich could afford to buy it. even though seeing the 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 church as a nice to gift. branch 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 you hear the grain it turns into ashes that's how you get there are

black salts. so they leave it for a few hours if they should be ready. the soldiers cupboards and all 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 start. once it's been blessed by the priest every member of the. take a little. supposed to cure ills and protect the family for the whole of the. it turned out to be a busy few days in coast from 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 so i switched over to a there you go and fish and. you're all ok except for the way that you're dress ok fine i need to find clothes but that's all right we have everything you need. khalid's coal fisherman the right foot wear. a jacket. right and most importantly i had to keep your head more of a right 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 now that

you've got the right elbow hit then. everything for fishing the box with the rods with 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 was some sports the better the numbers for fish out if you can find. i didn't like. you to find some way to get the world so. it's not easy when you're dealing with ice base but all true good work out with the drill i did eventually also. 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. but it's not easy. i do going to feed too many people. for small dinner appetizer but little did i know this was just the beginning. this is absolutely crazy. your. second in about thirty seconds. jim james has all the makings of a skilled fisherman the fish can't get away. need baits the treats.

and i thought i was just here to kill some time and relax you never actually going to catch fish with this. group. with. your gaming 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 growing it 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. and then. just

a symbolic drop bad boy am i not surprised. it will keep us warmer as well. it'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 ice. and some freshly made.

russians golden ring cities of 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 in the wide open spaces for those looking to just leave it all behind. download the official t. application to i phone i pod touch from the i.q. drops to.