Russia

Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone … In Russia, one can only believe.

Fyodor Tyutchev Untitled quatrain (1866), translated by Anatoly Liberman

Some of my Instagram posts from Russia

A snowy Kamchatka lodge and birch trees glowing in low winter sunlight.Olga walking beneath a great orange-leaved oak beside the Tarkhany estate house in Russia.Olga watching autumn forest pass the window of a train crossing Russia.