“On Saturdays, smoke drifts over the village. The banyas are being heated.” Let’s go!

It is surprisingly simple (in certain circumstances) to mix up homebrew with other, less harmful things.

“Nikolayev hated the cat, wet socks, and his mother-in-law.”

Our first of several visits to a remote village, through the eyes of Darya Grebenshchikova.

How the situation in Russia looks from a village in the very remote and very Far East.

In a strange turn of events, Russians living near the Amur Tiger are being prosecuted for killing the animals that nearly killed them. 

A rumination on the cultural touchstone that only Russians are said to be able to understand and truly appreciate.

Granny Olya Shumakova had taken to her bed to die. But life, and death, are generally not simple.