Even though there is an extensive Vodka museum at Mandrogy, there are two inviolable rules: Nobody drinks alcohol and nobody steals in the village. This collective on the Volga River is complex of farmstead-type ornate houses, craft workshops, a school, a mill, horse stables, and a rabbit farm.
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Photo-journal with more than 400 full-color photos (126 pages) of the highlights and hidden attractions in Moscow and St. Petersburg: palaces, museums, city scenes, art, sculpture, the Hermitage, Catherine’s Palace, GUM, the Moscow metro, Peterhof, Tretyakov Gallery, the Park of the Fallen Idols, and more. Reader comments include: “I was very impressed with both the [...]
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