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 level i'm told now you can see it's all very picture post-cards that way 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 is 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 know 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 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 to breath and tie them on to them that has my little completed dolly and apparently. the breasts of the deal the more love and tenderness he will have in your home quite fortunate to have quite a well endowed girl is that 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. who 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. mr traditional my friends out there. 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 them. inhouse. see now

a good country dogs is great for winning the cockles and all but i think that all mr loman twelve 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 pushed me off to the docs for i knew the poor mr letterman told them it is 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 it was a great to see you here again and me too. i'm just outside the gates of the 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 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 part from even quite tempted to start eating some of this snow but hopefully i think i might be able to find something better than that around here. luck i think this might be the place. coast. like. tar balls very much. the stuff. they have the right direction. and it turn

out i was right. hello dolly is the coo marcus ring this yeah this is. a fall in the bucket springs for the car have a drink please show. you 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 neukom so used to bring it up that. one's own nicholas 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 false. it only takes around twenty seconds for the water to flow

through to the plants and the factory buckles 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 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 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 is crazy.

ok. so it's thirty degrees in here. because well. maybe splashing around among pens 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 men 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 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 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 though 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 after a little practice things started to improve. oh yes good shots. 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. the friend so we can. or 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 answer. 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 you guys we are fighting school israel we're going to do the rounds in the forest 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 thompson's forest where are they hiding.

it was my great aunt to die for my brother. who own a second quarter train male called the west. that's lucky. and for a 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 so much troubles and pens and american blood and the chance to eat drink and be merry for a while was just hoping for a few roll them all state activities around the corner. clusters that so much of the taxpayers' money coming to you and i says yeah i'm a real creative global arms this is booming you more arms not less in change of the world security obviously events in the middle east are top. wealthy british style.

markets why not can they. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on r t hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. russia would be so rich right. from france to pressure this. stock totty dot com. after spending a fair bit of my time in penza getting wet cold and out of breath i was more than ready to visit someone which got me out of the snow. so when you're dealing with

a long winter cautioning 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 other forms of. let's do this meet it not in this case a prince of denmark but the undisputed king of pens is russian billiards 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 also teach kids here. the game takes elements from both snoop and pool 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 old breaking. part of the idea is i'm going to hit the ball right bowl. and see what happens. and the knock it in from twenty cent to the stock if you can get that far away from the pocket off to such excess 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 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 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 me on the

road just snowy and icy it makes it really difficult to control the car. to get a little extreme condition with fresh. this is your school yes this is a safety driving school. most of them said 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 it for you there's a technique to it. you need to learn to use the handbrake as well as the steering wheel in such situations.

but even 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 time to run the traffic on gauntlet. admittedly we did up facing the wrong way a couple of times but he's a patient instructor and i was beginning to get the hang of things. i got. tougher than you expected. 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. it wasn't elegant but it was effective and after a few circuits without incident i was ready. but it does get a little units who called police turn will help you get out of trouble when the car spins out of control like it's 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. 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 maneuver. being chased by the prissy 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 do 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 just a scope. 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 glass. be

a little pricier than your average souvenir 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 race with. little james known shames you can see because you make connections with 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. out of this mixture it will make crystals it is melted to under one thousand four hundred fifty celsius. although the work is here

a famed for making valuable pieces of art is 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 a prototype thing. but it doesn't fall off. speed really is of the essence here otherwise the most and gloss quickly falls. cheney. rove. well i'm reliably informed 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 a rabbit the designers can add on finishing touches and then the piece is baked in the oven to solidify and a few hours later it's back to the shelves. so any slightly lacking in

a glass blowing talent but on the right is a patch up last coming up one point be realistic and to wrap it. more time in things it was all my stuff 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 scene. this house was the childhood home of one of the real greats of russian fifth place 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 find his ation and he is in his former home a company a following in his footsteps. with a little wine

a whole heap of christmas presents. oh you can. switch the bomb use a comma so it. shows here a trend visitors from far afield and often sell out weeks in an old swap sadly i didn't have time to stay and see one of the tasha 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 must lease the to has no parallels in the world mere whole devised it introduced quite unusual thinks so literally which we have here is house production every show takes place here it's marigolds personal home she was a different person his 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 the natasha's

troops were just one baritone short. for all of. us all. as a. proper theater would have a little bit of discourse on the paved of the russian soul. who proved. it was certainly a memorable and my trip to the panzer region my 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 a fan of history nature will simply want some top class entertainment this is a great place to visit.

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this is all it see from moscow for good evening it's ten pm monday night. top story this hour dozens of people have been. reported killed in the libyan capital tripoli as violence continue to spread across the country kid ministry of 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 and outsiders for taking the country to the brink of civil war he says troops loyal to the government will quote fight until the last man is standing the army 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 latest son said that number was exaggerated and also dismissed reports that his father's fled the country and rest is also raising those for the wider region with protests in yemen bahrain.