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.