Just over 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 40 hours by train from Moscow, sits the once-bustling coal-mining city of Vorkuta, Russia. Built by gulag inmates during Stalin’s big purge in the 1930s, this desolate region on the … Read More
I love a good road trip. On one of my travels, I drove from London to Mongolia in a Fiat, I have checked out the entire east coast of Australia over 6 months living out the back of a Holden … Read More
The White Sea-Baltic Canal in northwest Russia has a dark history. It was one of the first large construction projects, fully conducted by the forced labor of gulag inmates. Stalin’s Five Year Plan and tyrannical push to prove that Russia … Read More
Yusupov Palace was once home to one of the richest aristocratic families in the Russian Empire. It also became infamous as the setting for an extremely bizarre murder; that of Grigori Rasputin. On a cold winters day in 1916, the … Read More
Dargavs Village, also known as the City of the Dead is one of many mysterious dark tourist sites you can visit in Russia. It’s location, tucked away among the ridges of the Caucasus mountains, mean that only the most committed … Read More
If you happen to be taking a vacation on the Black Sea, or checking out Sochi, you might want to visit Stalin’s summer retreat. The great tyrant’s dacha, Zelenaya Roscha, still stands very much as it was in the days … Read More
On the 16th of October 2006, two Russian men walked along Grosvenor Street, a wealthy area of central London. Their names were Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun and they had been sent to this location under very special circumstances. In … Read More
In the spring of 2017, I traveled the Trans Siberian from East to west. I started in Beijing and finished in Moscow, a route I highly recommend as far fewer tourists take it. Along the journey, I was able to … Read More