on the very first wooden buildings went up right here. in fact much of the region still consists of forests and if you're interested in seeing some of its best preserved historical sites you just need to head out to the countryside. back in the early nineteenth century these grounds were the home of the famous russian poet mikhail told now you can see it's all very picture postcard snowy but that doesn't mean that it's extremely killy so i'm going to try and find some way to get out of the cold. is widely regarded as russia's second greatest poets after alexander pushkin and he lived on this estate until he was twelve years old nowadays is preserved as a museum to his life and times and that means you're going to bump into plenty of contemporary characters conditional have been called becoming quite good at this sort of stuff by now that these little rag dolls were given as presents for birthdays christenings and weddings and each one has our own individual outfit each

goal is supposed to ward away the evil eye from its makeup but according to the ladies here there are certain attributes that are particularly important. now let's take a women's pride to breath and tie them under the neck has my little completed dolly and apparently. the larger the breasts of the dill the more love and tenderness he will have in your home quite fortunate to have quite a well endowed girl just about what i watch once i finish my needlework my hostess introduced me to the rest of the hardworking family but it seems they have an open house policy him. over. who will come rushing to get to see you it's a holiday today as we can celebrate with finn and soon a few more guests turned out for some fun and games. this year to my friends and.

they certainly go out of their. way to make you feel welcome and if you're looking for some period drama just take a walk through the main house. see now a good country dogs is great for winning the pools and all but i think that all mr norman told probably was used to something a little while ago. i might not have been appropriately dressed but my hostess dilemma was kind enough not to comment on dr i'd been introduced to the local snake society she wished to be off to the docks for i knew the poor mr letterman told had met his end in a jewel so i was definitely on my best behavior and fortunately i was able to finish my waltz with my dignity and yellin is toast still intact. thank you very much limitless you get to see you here again and me too. i'm just outside the gates of your state there was even some area transport available. so

sadly it's time to get back to the twenty first century but at least looking leave the nineteenth in an authentic fashion. to follow the herd or. unfortunately for me i'm like because horses get tired and i was dropped off still a fair distance from penza it was time to get hiking. walking for ages well i'm absolutely paul just quite tempted to start eating some of this snow well hopefully i think i might be able to find something better than that around here with luck. i think this might be the place. coast.

like. tuttles very much. stuff. they had the right direction. and it turned out i was right. hello believes the bring this yeah this is bring us a fall in the bucket springs for the current have a drink please show us. this underground want to source was discovered almost a hundred years ago and it's been here ever since. this water has many useful properties it meets no prior treatment before it goes into food products from serious to what it drifts towards a plant no come say used to bring it up that. is only the second was still on the russian throne this was because production line each bottle filled labelled and sealed by hand before being locked away in a trunk for delivery across the nation. nowadays the water is still sold throughout

russia it's just produced a thousand times faster. it only takes around twenty seconds for the water to flow through to the plant and the factory buckles up ten million liters a bit every month and it seems they've branched out into one or two other products as well. ok this is what i'm talking about the soda tasting. wonderful bit of this. is too many oh the hell. they make six thousand bottles an hour. refresh them responsibilities i was soon back in pens but i had a serious sugar rush to burn off. and when better than at the local. if you watch the show you'll know just how big a final few things extreme more could be more hot cool than

a slam out saw it in the middle of winter. oh my god this gets crazy. ok. so it's thirty degrees in here but it is called the cops well. maybe splashing around among fans and housewives doesn't exactly count as particularly extreme but if you do have a taste for adventure there are want to places you can visit. but when this area was nothing but forests there were regular scum between the soldiers of the saw and local and nomadic tribes now of course the further away you could kill your enemy from the better off you were but that. took practice. and the art of dealing death from a distance is still alive and well. dimitri is the chief instructor at this medieval style shooting club. james this is an older weapon

a sling is more like it in the past they were made out of wood and this is a modern version of loading up a catapult me back to a misspent youth but it did take me a while to get my eye in just in case you do a find yourself in the forest with a catapult on a bed does walk out in front of you probably best to leave him alone he might. agree i was ready to try out something a little bigger and dimitri and i moved on to the archery range although i swear the sights were awful nice but. we miss quite a long way. down a little bit. but i'm sure a little practice things started to improve. oh yes oh good shot. i guess in this case it wasn't a robin hood performance but at least i was regularly hitting the target now.

nicely done jim you're quick learner but we have a more powerful weapon for you the final test was still to come on this weapon i'd only ever seen in movies in museums and it's a pretty deadly piece of equipment. this one is even more effective crossbow can be fully loaded well before it's used. but anyone with a loaded weapon can hide an ambush waiting for an enemy or wild animals weapon is used for hunting and fighting it is still popular to this day so to me and. so it was only appropriate that we had some authentic forest game to a much. wild boar take down one of these and it just so happens that we have. to have a go at ok. the friend. we can. or but he could sandwiches for everybody but of course you should make sure that your

prey's really dead first i think i've definitely found my weapon of choice so i've learned how to enrage a poor fake bear and kill a poor fake pig. i'm ready for war. now i just need to find some people who might be able to make use of my new found skills when i go about doing that and and so. so now he's looking like a motley band of feiss but. i knew that what strain it was going to come in handy. just greetings and who are you guys we are fighting school israel we're going to do the rounds in the forest and there are plenty of bad people hanging out there. you have gay me and his brothers in arms the members of pens as oldest mediæval club the more than eighteen years they've been recreating battles adding to their all marie creating some very fetching constraints and off to some intensive sword

fighting we were ready to head out on patrol gentlemen are you ready yes let's do this apparently there were rumors of toxins in the forest where were they hiding. it was my great aunt to die for my brother. who own a certain course in a chain mail called the west. that's lucky. and for a miraculous of bumps as in thirteenth century mention everyone else was able to make a full recovery there's got to be some upsides medieval warfare. but i guess if you're

going to get stabbed and beaten up and covered in mud this is what makes it all worth it. my friends glory to russia. it had been a pretty intense start so much troubles and pens of american blood and the chance to eat drink and be merry for a while was just hoping for a few role of the more sedate activities around the corner. cultures that so much time taxpayers' money i mean i'd say yeah real. global arms miscues booming you more arms not less in jayne's or the world security obviously events in the middle east are top. wealthy british style. is no time to. free. markets

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after spending a fair bit of my time in penza getting went cold and out of breath i was more than ready to visit somewhere which got me out of the snow. so when you're dealing with a long winter course you need plenty of things that you can do in doors like this now. i know pretty much all the rules too. even though not all that great for that but the russians have got their own version but there are all the fun. of let's do this meets competent not in this case a prince of denmark but the undisputed king of pens is russian billion scene the former champion is head coach of russia's under eighteen billion team and he's had

plenty of success. over the past four years they have achieved impressive results some of them take part in national and international competitions i also teach kids here. the game takes elements from both snoop and me but it's considered to be much more difficult than both especially when you're trying to pull off shots like these . oh oh oh oh. oh i'm going to attempt anything quite that fleshy but i thought i could at least most of the arms of breaking. part of the idea is i'm going to hit the bottom right hand hole. and see what happens. on the new kid in from twenty cent to be stuck if you can get that far away from the pocket off to such cess the game itself healthy is a mind was ready to challenge the most but apparently the most had other ideas i'm

going to play with. it should be fun except it wasn't not one bit. this is getting worrying vallium moved around the table like a seasoned pro and i was left trying to remember exactly what i was supposed to be aiming at. ok so you can use the red ball to pot the white ball but you can also use the white ball to poke the white balls and the white will spot the red balls but then you have to take away a white ball. i was getting seriously behind and obviously with my level of skill it had to be the full tape. why why would you create a game where the pockets are obviously too small for the boards. and then with horrible inevitability as over. time.

i think i just got hostiles. with my ego severely bruised i slunk out of the club and back to my rant off. i needed cheering up any one place where it wouldn't matter if i drove like a plane it. never really got used to in russia driving conditions like the road just snowy and icy it makes it really difficult to control the car. to get a little extreme condition fresh. this is your school yes this is a safety driving school. most of them said gay is a professional race and founder of pens a safety driving school and if you want to know how to handle your car in winter.

games now i'm going to show you how you can stop your car from. getting there's a technique to it. you need to learn to use the handbrake as well as the steering wheel in such situations. but when you've got problems begin with you keep your left hand on the wheel not sure you know when you are under right and on the handbrake. of course said game made it look incredibly easy but would my chevy and i be up to the challenge. rushes out on your turn now. it's under run the traffic on gauntlet. admittedly we did up facing the wrong way a couple of times but sic is

a patient instruction and i was beginning to get the hang of things. i've got. tougher than you expect. some just big boring drive really used to driving me to have. getting one to turn to tell the truth is the toughest but slow practice i mean he's off the accelerator. it wasn't elegant but it was effective and after a few circuits without incident i was ready for ball. but it does get a little cumin it's called police turn will help you get out of trouble when the car spins out of control then why did the driver freezes up and just holds on to the wheel waiting for the car to stop but there is a way out. you simply put the car into reverse drive back quickly and turn the

wheel. and it's got to start with we need to step on the accelerator and then press the clutch to make a sharp turn. now we're back to normal. ok rice we have some dramatic driving music so this. lady. being chased by the prissy sell to nearly. one. mile it is well done. gary was my brain. i managed to pass the pools and you never know when these new but do this point come in handy. now i can

dramatically we my way in and out of the moscow traffic police go off to a walk in just a school. but i couldn't hit the road back to the capital for i picked up a few keepsakes and in the pens a region that means close. these but be a little pricier than your average but this region is famous for its lead crystal and this museum has a collection that goes back all the two hundred. an accord into the curator particularly historic trees with. little james now james you can see this unique collection both in terms of age and contents. is can will be used to study the history of glass blowing in russia and the rest of the world. although it originated in the late eighteenth century it is still being replenished

and of course before it can be transformed into something beautiful the rule materials need to be assembled. at this mixture it will make crystals it is melted to under one thousand four hundred fifty celsius. although the work is here of fame for making valuable pieces of art there's also a lucrative souvenir business and had glass blower on tray was ready to share some secrets with me. on the spirit of it but now i have heard the green word of molten glass that. i'm going to keep rotating. but it doesn't fall off. speed really is of the essence here otherwise the molten bloss quickly falls. shape. row. this is going to

turn out to be a bunny rabbit. maybe you can do a little bit of rescue work. once the body actually looks like the rabbits the designers can add on finishing touches and then the pieces baked in the oven to solidify and a few hours later it's ready for the show. so any flooding lacking in any pollen but on the right is a patch up coming up one point be realistic at the rabbit. stop but i was still hoping to catch a little more culture before i went on the legend of one man still dominates the local faith to see. this house was the childhood home of one of the real greats of russian theater was a lot more hold revolutionize the way people thought about acting and stage direction in russia and the early soviet union his techniques are still practiced

here today. hold move sharply away from classical theatrical practice abandoning stage curtains making actors before without makeup and encouraging him fires ation and here in his former home a company a following in his footsteps. christmas. switch the boss musical. chairs here a trend visitors from far afield and often some weeks in the phone. sadly i didn't have time to stay and see one. had another surprise for me. i have to make a confession i like you and tell actors like you to come. i'm going to show you something that the city to has no parallel since the welt mayor whole devised it introduced quite unusual thinks so literally what we have here is house production

every show takes place here it's mary holds personal home she was a different person she's attitude towards life was quite bizarre and here we have to prove it. all the. old most a piece was considered to be his version of gogol's the government inspector and it turned out the natasha's trooper was just one baritone short hole over oh dear there's just all of you. all of us who. are a huge. problem here to have a little bit of discourse on the paved of the russian soul. who proved. it was certainly a memorable end of my trip to the pins a region i time travel to the thirteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the space of ten days and made it back in one piece if you're

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