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@peskov Jan 23, 2017, 2:42 PM UTC

Wrangel Island (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

To begin with, General Wrangel of ill-fame is in no way connected with Wrangel Island, which was named after the Russian explorer Ferdinand Wrangel. Early in the 19th century the Russian government a…

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@peskov Jan 18, 2017, 10:17 AM UTC

Three Sails in the Desert (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

One evening in June some shepherds in the Kara Kum Desert near the Aral Sea saw a strange sight. Three white sails floated over the sand along the far horizon. The hot, shimmering air of the desert w…

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@peskov Oct 26, 2016, 4:43 PM UTC

A Visit to Lake Baikal (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

I've known the old song about Lake Baikal since I was a child. Our neighbor, Grandpa Yegor, the lame carpenter, sang it in the evenings as he sat on his porch. When he got to the words "the sacred Ba…

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@peskov Oct 25, 2016, 3:28 PM UTC

Twenty Minutes by a Campfire (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

We hovered over the top of a dune, sizing it up, then landed gingerly. The gray sand was blown away in rivulets and the sparse, dry grass bent in the prop wash. The helicopter's wheels settled in the…

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@peskov Oct 24, 2016, 4:54 PM UTC

A Cave in the Kopet Dag Mountains (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

I was accompanying a mounted border patrol in the foothills of the Kopet Dag Mountains. To the left the cliffs rose high and sheer, to the right lay the vacant, sun-scorched, windswept steppe. "Feel…

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@peskov Oct 23, 2016, 2:47 PM UTC

Europe-Asia (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

Europe and Asia meet on this forest clearing. One fir tree grows in Europe, the other, within sight of it, in Asia. A flock of waxwings rises from an ash-berry tree, circles over the clearing and set…

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@peskov Oct 22, 2016, 12:51 PM UTC

Bridges (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

Few roads do not cross a bridge. Memory will always bring back the creaking of logs, the hollow ringing of metal or the silence of stone. Bridges, of all of man's structures, are the most poetic. I w…

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@peskov Oct 18, 2016, 4:24 PM UTC

The Danube's Embrace (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

I was travelling by train and, as usual, got to talking with my travelling companions. "There wasn't a drop of water in Kishinev in 1944. The city changed hands several times during the war. The wate…

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@peskov Oct 14, 2016, 3:11 PM UTC

Flying Time: Twenty Minutes (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

"Do you want to catch up with that kite?" I knew he was joking. But then the helicopter veered and we were flying in the same direction as the bird, both of us low over the woods. I could count the f…

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@peskov Oct 13, 2016, 2:50 PM UTC

The Lighthouse in the Baltic (featuring Vasily Peskov as author)

"One makes note of what one sees, and what one does not see, one does not make note of." This is how some ancient sailing instructions began. Leafing slowly through them is much like travelling. Sail…

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