We offer you a short story by the Russian writer Nikolay Leykin, the author of the famous “Our People Abroad,” about his journey from the then-capital of the Russian Empire “through the wild North.” As his acquaintance complained to him, you’re always traveling to foreign places: to the French Riviera, to Italy, driving all over Spain, roaming around Turkey—yet you’ve never once looked to the North. And now the North is in fashion.
““The idea of taking a walk in the North took hold of me, and I decided to test two routes to Arkhangelsk this very summer—by water and by rail. Besides, a ‘Guide to the North of Russia’ has appeared for sale in bookstores…””
As always, the humorous description of the trip to Arkhangelsk is brilliantly read by Stanislav Fedosov.