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Russia. a journey with Jonathan Dimbleby. The complete series

Across seven time zones and through all extremes of weather, the writer and TV presenter Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey through the vast and varied landscapes of Russia, killing cliches and revelling in the unpredictable.

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  • "Across seven time zones and through all extremes of weather, the writer and TV presenter Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey through the vast and varied landscapes of Russia, killing cliches and revelling in the unpredictable."
  • "Across seven time zones and through all extremes of weather, the writer and TV presenter Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey through the vast and varied landscapes of Russia, killing cliches and revelling in the unpredictable."@en
  • "Across seven time zones and through all extremes of weather, the writer and TV presenter Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey through the vast and varied landscapes of Russia, killing cliches and revelling in the unpredictable. Breaking the ice: Jonathan Dimbleby drives over the tundra inside the Arctic Circle. Ahead of him lie 10,000 miles of hard traveling through a country that is not only the largest in the world but also, perhaps, the most awe-inspiring. It was the summer of 2006 when filming began. In Karelia, we meet people who still believe in the good and evil spirits of the forest. We come to the sophisticated elegance of St Petersburg, with its canals and palaces and extraordinary history. Country matters: Jonathan Dimbleby finds himself at a reception for a Madonna concert, attended by anyone who is anyone in Moscow. The next day he takes the train to the family estate of Leo Tolstoy, arguably the greatest of all Russian writers. Tolstoy believed you could find the soul of Russia in the simple peasant, and today his great-greatgrandson, Count Vladimir Tolstoy, is trying to revive the whole estate as a working farm. Later Jonathan goes to a wedding where the ancient rituals of wife stealing and repentance are played out. Motherland: Jonathan meets Svetlana Argatseva, a woman who thinks Stalin has been misunderstood. She is not alone. Russians tend to value strong leaders more than human rights, and as Jonathan makes his way up the Volga, he finds the Kremlin's new more aggressive mood towards the West is going down well. Another more sobering meeting is with journalist Sergei Kurt-Adjiev. He works for Novaya Gazeta, one of the few publications that has refused to take the Government line. Sergei is subject to constant harassment by the police. National Treasures: Jonathan Dimbleby stops off at a nightclub to meet Vladimir Shakhrin, an icon of Ekaterinburg rock 'n roll. Alcoholism is a huge problem in Russia, killing thousands every year, often because the only liquor they can afford is home-made poison sold on the estates in the sprawling suburbs of cities like Ekaterinburg. Jonathan goes on a raid with a crime-busting group founded by an ex-alcoholic. In woods near the city Jonathan comes across an archaeologist who has just unearthed what he thinks are the bones of two of the imperial children, thus solving the puzzle of what had become of them. The modern treasure on which Russia prospers is, of course, oil. Jonathan takes the train far North towards the Arctic Circle to Nizhnevartovsk, where BP is a co-owner of a huge oil field. Far from Moscow: Jonathan Dimbleby meets a Buryat shaman near the shores of Lake Baikal. The shaman's holy place is in sharp contrast to the busy streets of Irkutsk, the great trading city of eastern Siberia. Jonathan follows one of the Red Cross teams who are struggling to manage a crisis by taking clean needles and condoms to high risk areas. The next day he takes a very special train on one of the most spectacular stretches of railway in the world. It's the original route of the Trans Siberian railway which threads its precarious way along the shores of Lake Baikal. His next stop is Chita, where Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oligarch who fell foul of Putin, is held."

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