it was founded as a frontier town and 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 killie. find somewhere to get out of the cold. 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. will 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 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 here and tie them under the mat has my little completed dolly and apparently. the larger the breasts of the dill the more love and tenderness you will have in your home quite fortunate to have quite a well in doubt girl here is how much once i finish my needlework why hostess introduced me to the rest of the hardworking family but it seems they have an open house policy here. welcome rationalised i'm glad to see you it's a holiday today as we can celebrate with don't sin and soon a few more guests turned up for some fun and games. this year traditional my

friends are all sinners. 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 white house. you know a good puppy dogs is great for winning the pools and all but i think that oh mr lemon twelve probably was used to something a little while ago. i might not have been appropriately dressed but my hostess cilento was kind enough not to comment on dr i'd been introduced to the local space society she wished me off to the dogs 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 totally still intact. thank you very much limits you in the glad to see you here again and me too. and 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 whole. unfortunately for me i'm like calls horses get toilet 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 so 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. very much. the stuff. they have the right direction. and it turned out i was right. hello leaves the bring this yeah this is. a fall in the bucket springs with us could have a drink please show. you some ground 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 then. once on 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 a final things extreme so more could be more homeschooled honestly i'm not saw it

in the middle of winter. oh my god is this 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 there are want to places you can't miss. 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 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 but he might be committed. 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 nice but. we miss quite a long way down a little bit. but i'll sure a little practice things started to improve. oh yes good shot. second 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 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 the 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. poor friend see if we can. or could sandwiches for everybody but of course you should make sure that your prey is

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. you know he's looked like a motley band of feiss but. i knew that what strain it was going to come in and they. just greetings and he 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 bottles adding to their all marie and creating some very fetching costumes and after 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 book in a chain mail called the west. and for 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 travels and pens and american blood on the chance to eat drink and be merry for a while just hoping for a few roll them all state activities around the corner. wealthy british style. time to. market. can't. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars

a report on our. world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered. download the official placation. i pod touch from the top story. life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s my old costs and feeds now in the palm of your. question. after spending a fair bit of my time in penza getting wet 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 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 comfort 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 him as a result some of them take part in national and international competitions i 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 these. 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 bottom right hand hole. and see what happens. to. all. the knock it in from twenty centimeters stuck if you can get that far away from the pocket off to such assess the game itself healthy kids and i 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 pull 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 on. 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 rush was 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 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 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 soon when you've got problems begin with you keep your left hand on the wheel not sure you know when you are under right times on the handbrake. of course

again made it look incredibly easy but would my chevy be up to the challenge. was not on your door now some of your rights under run the traffic cone 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 is tougher than you expect at least. some just big boring drive i'm really used to driving to hobbs. getting one to turn to jump suit is the toughest but i still practice i mean he's

off the accelerator and can i get in the gate. 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 unit so called police turn will help you get out of trouble for what i shared 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 do you simply put the car into reverse drive back quickly and turn the wheel. with the ball. to start with we need to step on the accelerator then press the clutch to make a sharp turn. we're back to normal. rice

we have some dramatic driving music for this. lady. the couple resi still to believe. route. well done. was my brain. i managed to pulse the chords and you never know when these do but do this point and. now i can dramatically we my way in and out of the moscow traffic please. but i couldn't hit the road back to the capital for i picked up a few keepsakes i mean the pens are region means. little pricier than your average but this region is famous for its lead crystal and

this museum has a collection that goes back to two hundred. it's particularly historic smith. you can see this unique connection in terms of age and content. is can be used to study the history of 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 that's also

a lucrative souvenir business and had glass blower on tray was ready to share some secrets with me. still it might it might not be green for the most of us that. i'm going to keep a very tight thing. but it doesn't fall off. speed really is of the essence here otherwise the most and blow off quickly falls out of shape. oh. 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 time we have one point a realistic and the rabbit. for timing 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 it was 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. the actual practice abandoning stage curtains making actors before without makeup and encouraging him fires ation and here in his former home accompany a following in his footsteps. with the line a whole heap of christmas. oh you can you can. switch the bomb use or call.

in. shows here attract 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 what we have here is a 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 that natasha's troops were just one baritone short. all over.

a. proper theatre without a little bit of discourse on the eve 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 a fan of history nature or simply want some top class entertainment this is a great place to visit.

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