EnchanteD!

A fascinating state with an even fascinating polity. Russia. The land of the Tsar and other confusing names!
From Ivan "the terrible" to Vladimir Putin...Its gone through a sea change without actually going through one. The wars were fought, kindom lost and gained. The beautiful capital of St Petersburg on the Baltic stood testimony to the rage of the Seven Years War and the many others that followed.
Russia, the birthplace of "revolution", they went on in all months...Feburary. October.Communists all through Lenin, Stalin and Trostsky leading to joining THE League to counter the Nazis.
The World War II became the Great Patriotic War and the Red Army swarmed all across Eastern Europe...and thus began the long era of the Cold War. "Cold" tends to seem synonymus to Russia. The weather, the Architecture, the Political Environment. A country so utterly mysterious surrounded by an aura of the dead. or maybe thats jsut mE. Its Love..of a different kind. The Sputnik and the Vostoks' went where no one else had. They gave us a lot more than we thought.
Dream to be there... To breathe the Air once exhaled by the Peters' and the Catherines'.
Till then...keep the charm and rejoice for you gave us THE Vodka.