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870 years of Moscow

St. Petersburg

Russian reality is a sublime, universal, ordered chaos. (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky)

Those who leave do not feel the pain of farewell. It is the one who stays behind that suffers. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Don't envy the eagle because it can fly, it can't swim like you. (Xokonoschtletl Gomora)

What is the difference between summer and winter? In summer, the puddles do not freeze. (Gerald Drews)

The urban silhouette opens worlds and closes the sky. (Raymond Walden)

Photo shoot

The train is a symbol of life to me: sitting still and yet moving forward quickly. (Wolfgang Korruhn)

No plan survives the first enemy contact. (Helmuth von Moltke)

What happens without breaks is not lasting. (Ovid)

The invasion of tourist hordes leads to the eradication of the beautiful ... (André Heller)

On the way to Irkutsk station

The barber learns to shave at the fool's beard. (Proverb)

Omul

Climb the mountain or descend into the valley, go to the end of the world or around your house: you will always meet yourself on the streets of chance. (Maurice Maeterlinck)

Breakfast: the most beautiful of all meals. You are rested and young, haven't been annoyed yet, and full of new hopes and plans. (Heinrich Spoerl)

How foolish it is to make plans for the whole life, since we are not even masters of the next day. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

As it used to be said 'Go west, young man', today one should say 'Go east, young man'. That's where the opportunities lie. (Walter Seipp)

Snapshot (Christina and Arved)

It was raining so heavily that all the pigs were clean and all the people were dirty. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

Whoever has been bitten by a snake is afraid of every piece of string.

We are about to turn our around-world into an un-world. (Ernst Ferstl)

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the train journey. All others are peanuts... (Eric Newby)

Russians and Germans are the two largest peoples in Europe. Their relationship has a crucial impact on the fate of the whole continent. (Boris Yeltsin)

1991

Monuments are the questionable question marks of history, because most people ask: 'Who was that anyway?' (Erhard Blanck)

Internet is just a hype. (Bill Gates)

Words are like leaves - where they are abundant, one rarely finds fruit underneath. (Alexander Pope)

Exaggeration helps understanding. (Vladimir Lenin)

Willst du in die Zukunft sehen, geh in die Hauptstadt. (Christoph Mauny)

If one is not patient in small matters, one will fail in great ones. (Confucius)

"The straw I cling to for joie de vivre is currently the bicycle." (Arthur Schnitzler)

By the way: Travel broadens the mind - especially traffic jams on the highways. (Saying)

2nd stop - Moscow

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