orrible 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 lem i'm told now you can see it's all very picture postcard snowy but that doesn't mean that it's extremely kili so i'm going to try and find some way to get out of the cold. little months old is widely regarded as russia's second greatest poets off to alexander pushkin and he lived on this estate until he was twelve years old nowadays are 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 and then it these little rag dolls were given as presents for birthdays christenings and weddings and each one has our own individual outfit. it still is supposed to ward away the evil eye from its maker but according to the ladies here there are certain attributes that are particularly important we don't

know 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 there is to watch once i finish my needlework my hostess introduced me to the rest of her hardworking family but it seems they have an open house policy here. no not welcome rationalised i'm glad to see you it's a holiday today as we can celebrate with finn and soon a few more guests turned up for some fun and games. this year traditional my friends and relatives. they certainly go out of their way to make you feel welcome and if you're looking for some more period drama just take a walk through the white house. you know

a good puppy dogs is great for winning the cold war but i think that oh mr lemon for probably was used to something a little while ago. i might not have been appropriately dressed but my hostess here leno was kind enough not to comment after i'd been introduced to the local space society she pushed me off to the dots 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 lynas tone still intact. thank you very much limits you in a glad to see you here again and me too. i'm just outside the gates of your state there was even some kerry a chance. bailable. 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. the whole. unfortunately for me i'm like calls horses get tired and i was dropped off still a fair distance from penza it was time to get hiking. up and walking for ages and i'm absolutely paul i mean even quite tempted to stop 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 that. the stuff. they have the right direction. may turn

out i was right. hello believes the bring this yeah this is. a fall in the bucket springs for the core of a drink please show me. 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 needs 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 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 bottles are 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 what 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 album things extreme. more could be more hot cool than a straight out saw it in the middle of winter. oh my god this is crazy. ok.

so it's thirty degrees in here political the count's 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 one of two 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 of 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. three 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 robin hood performance but at least i was regularly hitting the target now. with 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 see if 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 the faces. i knew that were trying 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 there are plenty of bad people hanging out there you gave me and his brothers in arms the members of pens is oldest mediæval club the more than eighteen years they've been recreating battles adding to their all marie creating some very fetching costumes 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 second quarter chain mail call 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 there's going 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 travels and pens and american blood on the chance to eat drink and be merry for a while i was just hoping for a few roll of the more state activities around the corner. shows the same on the taxpayers' money i mean i am a real serious global markets business is booming you more arms not less in danger the world security obviously events in the middle east are top. low income to the. period in a blizzard of winter blues to slopes and try out some new text brushes got a little calendar excitement in its southern melting stitched trainers to keep you in top form and a watchful eye on the goal line carving the trail to sochi twenty four to one technology update here on a lark in. the future. 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 pull one out 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 believe team and he's had plenty of success. over the past four years they have achieved him as a result 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'm 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.

and see what happens. and the new kid in from twenty centimeters start 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 table. 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. i needed cheering up any one place where it wouldn't matter if i drove like a plague. that i've never really got used to in rushes 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. getting over 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 then 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.

was not 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've got this tougher than you expect. some just big boring drive i'm really used to driving to hobbs. getting one is going to tell the truth is the toughest but it's still 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 you know it's so cold police turn will help you get out of trouble when the car spins out of control them 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 do you simply put the car into reverse drive back quickly with 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 royce we have some dramatic driving music so this. lady. was being chased by the prissy still to. believe.

what. mileage 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 hand. now i can dramatically we my way in and out of the moscow traffic please go off to a walk in 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. these will 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 it's particularly historically spiffed. little james known shames you can see these unique collection 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 the 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 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

a prototype thing. but it doesn't fall off. speed really is of the essence here otherwise the molten bloss quickly falls. shame. oh. 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 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 at least one lacking in a palette but on the right is the pacha coming up one might be realistic and the rabbit. stopped

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 it 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 financial practice abandoning stage curtains making actors before without makeup and encouraging him face ation and here in his former home a company a following in his footsteps. christmas. switch the boss. shows here a trend visitors from far afield and often some weeks in full swing 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 must lease the to has no parallel says 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 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 trooper was just one baritone short. whole lot of. the hollow. of. a.

huge. profit without 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. de france jr tricia and this is product of the price of healthy eating. we need to test these two times the city allergenicity immune response lower nutrition in for environmental contamination don't you feel like a law brought some consider the experiment in human treatment freddy idli

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