Status Updates From Down the Volga: A Journey T...

One doesn't just do the volga like Huck and Finn down the Mississippi. There are connections to make, preparations to do and payments to exchange. For all of that, you still go round and round doubling back, jumping forward to get somewhere. Such is Russia.

illustrated. no photos. breezily told, sometimes so light-hearted you miss the punch-line. Empress Catherine travelled the Volga once without her travel agent, Prince Potemkin" , and so saw the villages as they truly were and not as Potemkin had remodeled them to be.