Kosmodemyansk er et slags siste, lille stykke mellomkrigslandsby langs Volga, før man kommer til Nisjnij Novgorod og Moskva, hvor det meste ligner på et moderne Europa. Men her blir fremdeles mye gammelt håndverk holdt i hevd. |
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Kosmodemyansk, along the Volga, was the last place in Russia I visited where I felt as if I had been taken fifty years back in time. The next stop was Nizhny Novgorod, a more modern and capitalist city. But here all sorts of old craftsmanship was kept alive. |