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If there’s even been something tougher than learning the grammar rules of a new language, it’s finding the way to speak with other people in that tongue. Any student knows this – we can try our best at practicing, but you always want to avoid making embarrassing mistakes or not getting your message through correctly. 

An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city defined by its survival and reinvention, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics "A magisterial account of Moscow that reveals the city’s history and something of its soul through countless interwoven...

Russland ist anders: Nach über 25 Jahren Wohnen und Arbeiten in Russland weiß der Schweizer Rechtsanwalt Professor Karl Eckstein, wie man dort erfolgreich Geschäfte macht. Als großer Russland-Kenner plaudert er höchst unterhaltsam, aber immer mit großer Sachkenntnis aus dem Nähkästchen. Bei Business-Meetings werden parallel noch Gespräche am Handy geführt. Am Tisch wird hemmungslos geraucht, während die anderen essen. Aber "Die Brüder Karamasow" von Dostojewski haben alle gelesen und erwarten das auch von ihrem Geschäftspartner.

The tour begins with a tour of Moscow and the Kremlin, which towers on a forty meter high hill above the Moskva River. With the construction of the Kremlin, the history of the city began as the spiritual and secular center of the country. The fascinating "cruise of the tsars" leads over rivers, canals and lakes through the former empire of the tsars, past monasteries and wooden churches to St. Petersburg. The first travel destination is the historic town of Uglic and later Jaroslavl, one of the oldest trading cities on the Volga.