...Or, What I Did This Summer (apart from finishing school and looking for work)

I spent from May 30 to June 6 of 1999 visiting some friends in Russia. After I returned, I wrote up a description of my travels and emailed it to friends and relatives of mine over the course of about two months. Finally, I decided to scan in some pictures and put the whole thing up on the web.

If you were one of the people who got the mailings, then the pictures are probably what's of greatest interest to you. I've arranged them all together in the following documents:

There's also the narrative itself. Where appropriate, I've included thumbnail pictures of things I discuss in the text; you can click on the thumbnails to get a bigger version of the same picture. Not all pictures are linked to from the narrative, so you will probably also want to look at the photoessays listed above.

Index of the Narrative

  1. Arrival in Moscow
  2. Visiting Red Square and environs
  3. Sidenotes: Water and Toilets
  4. Visiting the Kremlin
  5. Exploring Moscow
  6. More Sidenotes: The Cyrillic Alphabet
  7. Exploring Moscow with Volodia, and a concert
  8. More Sidenotes: Politics
  9. Exploring Moscow with Sarah, and in particular Tsaritsyno
  10. Journey to St. Petersberg
  11. First Day in St. Petersberg
  12. Visiting Peterhof
  13. Second Day in St. Petersberg, and returning home

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