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 often alexander pushkin and he lived on this estate until he was twelve years old nowadays it's preserved as a museum to his life and times and that means you're going to bump into plenty of contemporary characters. will have been called becoming quite good at this sort of stuff i notice 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 walk away the evil eye from its maker but according to the ladies here

there are certain attributes that are particularly important. now let's take a women's pride brand and tie them on to the man 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 in doubt girl here is what i want you to finish my needlework my hostess introduce me to the rest of the hardworking family but it seems they have an open house policy him. over. will come rushing to get to see you it's a holiday today we can celebrate with finn and soon a few more guests turned up 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 learmonth probably was used to something a little while ago. i might not have been appropriately dressed but my hostess to leno was kind enough not to comment on dr i'd been introduced to the local snake society she pushed me 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 the illness totals still intact. thank you very much limitless you're going to 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 to

leave the nineteenth in an authentic fashion. to follow the bird 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 on absolutely paul just moving 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. luck think this might be the place. his post. like. tom was very much. the stuff.

they had the right direction. and it turned out i was right. hello believes the kook marcus ring is yeah this is. a fall in the bucket springs with us could have a drink please sure. some grown want to source was discovered almost a hundred years ago and it's been here ever since. this water has many useful properties it needs no prior treatment before it goes into food products from serious to what it drifts towards a plant no tom so 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 her 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 plants and the factory bottles up ten million liters of it 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 tasted. 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 way better than at the local. if you watch the show you'll know just how big the final things extreme so more could be more home schooled honestly i'm not saw it in the middle of winter.

oh my god this guy is crazy. ok. so it's thirty degrees in here political because well. maybe splashing around among friends and housewives doesn't exactly count as particularly extreme but if you do have a taste for adventure they're all 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 it 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 that's 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 out of bed does walk out in front of you probably best to leave him alone as he was. always 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 knows both. we miss quite a long way down a little bit. but i'll sure a little practice things started to improve. oh yes oh good shot. second i guess in this case it wasn't a robinhood 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 is 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 my poor friend. if we can. or but you 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. and you know what train he was going to come in and they. 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 is oldest mediæval club for more than eighteen years they've been recreating battles adding to their all marie creating some very fetching constraints and after some intensive soul fighting we were ready to head out on patrol gentlemen are you ready yes let's do

this apparently there were rumors of tottenham's forced away with a holiday. card . it was my graze on the to die for my brother. who ran a search for the train male called the west. that's lucky it. was untrue miraculous of bumps as in thirteenth century medicine everyone else was able to make a full recovery that's going to be some upsides mediæval 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 to my travels and pens and american blood and the chance to eat drink and be merry for a while i was just hoping for a few role of the more sedate activities around the corner. cultures that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean when i say yeah i'm a real treat to global farms this is booming you more arms not less in jayne's or the world security obviously events in the middle east are top.

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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. it not in this case a prince of denmark but the undisputed king of pens as russian billion seen 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 also teach kids here. the game takes elements from both snoop. but it's considered to be much more difficult than both especially when you're trying to pull off shots like beat. i was going to attempt anything quite that flashy but i thought i could at least most of the arms of breaking. up and the idea is i'm going to hit the bottom right hand pull here. 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 success 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. since getting worrying value 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 table. why why would you create a game with a pocket so 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 all. 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 or fresh. you know if this is your school yes this is a safety driving school. most of them so gay is a professional race and founder of kansas 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 so. 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 then when you've got problems begin with you keep your left hand on the wheel not sure you know when you and your right hand on the handbrake. gay made it look incredibly easy but would my chevy be up to the challenge. rushes out on your turn now. it's time to run the traffic on gauntlet. admittedly we did up facing the wrong way a couple of times but sick is

a patient instruction and i was beginning to get the hang of things. i got this tougher than you expect. some just big boring drive really used to driving me to. getting one. going to tell the truth is the toughest but slow practice i mean he's off the accelerator. at the gate. it wasn't elegant but it was effective and after a few circuits without incident i was ready. 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 them like it's a driver freezes up and just holds on to the wheel waiting for the car to stop but there is a way out you do you simply put the car into reverse drive back quickly and turn

the wheel. and 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 for this. lady. being chased by the pressie still to believe. the. mileage is well done. well as my brain kicks it. i manage to pass the course and you never know when these people do this point for me and. now i can

dramatically we my way in and out of the moscow traffic police go off the way i can just the scope of it but i couldn't hit the road back to the capital for i picked up a few keepsakes i mean the pens a region that means glass. 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. into the curator particularly historic trees with. little james now james you can see this unique collection of both in terms of age and content. 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. still it started. 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. broke up. lively phone that this is going to

turn out to be a bunny rabbit. maybe andre 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 best for the show. so i'll be slightly lacking in a glass blowing talent but on the right there's a patched up monster coming up one point be realistic and the rabbit. one time and things it was a bus 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 fare to see. this house was the childhood home of one of the real greats of russian fit bits of lot more hold revolutionize the way people thought about acting and stage direction in russia and the early soviet union and his techniques are

still practiced today. hold move sharply away from classical theatrical practice abandoning stage curtains making actors before without makeup and encouraging him fire station and here in his former home a company a following in his footsteps. hold his christmas present. oh you can. switch the balkan music all of the. shows here attract visitors from far afield and often sell out weeks in an old school sadly i didn't have to understand see one potential had another surprise for . james i have to make a confession i like you and tell actors like you to come on i'm going to show you something asked the city to has no parallels in the world mere hole 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 attitude towards life was quite bizarre and here we have to prove it. holds most piece was considered to be his version of gogol's the government inspector and it turned out that natasha's troop was just one baritone short. haul of. a. proper theatre without a little bit of discourse on the pain of the russian soul. who proved. it was certainly a memorable and my trip to the panzer region by 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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law from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he said no way thanks for being with us it's six pm here in the russian capital five pm in tripoli libya where dozens of people have been reported killed in the capital overnight as violence continues to spread across the country key administrative buildings have been set on fire with thousands of anti-government activists still on the streets calling for an end to the forty one year rule of colonel gadhafi the son of the libyan leader blamed exiles an outsiders for taking the country to the brink of civil war he says troops loyal to the government will fight until the last standing man the army is said to be using live ammunition against demonstrators with international organizations putting the death toll at over two hundred thirty in a televised address the leader song said this number was exaggerated he also dismissed reports that his father has to.