As a child, yearning to leave home and go far away…
I read about elsewhere, fantasizing about my freedom. Books were my road. And then, when I was old enough to go, the roads I traveled became the obsessive subject in my own books. Eventually I saw that the most passionate travelers have always also been passionate readers and writers.
- Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel
Russia and Siberia
Church on the Blood with its tribute to the slain Romanovs, Ekaterinburg, Siberia
Spinning the prayer wheels at a Buryat Tibetan monastery near Ulan Ude, Siberia
Decorated dacha outside of St. Petersburg
Largest Lenin head in the world! Ulan Ude, Siberia
On the shores of Lake Baikal, Siberia
Typical breakfast throughout Siberia
In the village of Listyvanka, Siberia
Local pay phone in Irkutsk, Siberia
Discovering Decembrist history in Irkustsk, Siberia
Local goods for sale near the border of Belarus
Straddling the border of Asiatic Siberia and Western Russia outside Ekaterinburg
Beauty of the church domes near Peterhof
St. Basil’s in Moscow’s Red Square
Destinations
Russia
To research
The Lost Souls
of Angelkov, Linda rode the
Trans-Siberian
across Siberia
and Russia
