When German journalist Jens Muhling met Juri, a Russian television producer selling stories about his homeland, he was mesmerized by what he heard: the real Russia and Ukraine were more unbelievable than anything he could have invented. The encounter changed Muhling's life, triggering a number of journeys to Ukraine and deep into the Russian heartland on a quest for stories of ordinary and extraordinary people. Away from the bright lights of Moscow, Muhling met and befriended a Dostoevskian cast of characters, including a hermit from Tayga who had only recently discovered the existence of a world beyond the woods, a Ukrainian Cossack who defaced the statue of Lenin in central Kiev, and a priest who insisted on returning to Chernobyl to preach to the stubborn few determined to remain in the exclusion zone.
Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, A Journey into Russia is a much-needed glimpse into one of today's most significant regions.
- ISBN10 190797394X
- ISBN13 9781907973949
- Publish Date 1 July 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
- Imprint The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 275
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9781907973949