This is what we saw when we pulled away from the town of Babushkin on a ferry. It was our group’s first boat ride of the trip, so I wanted to make something to remember it.
This is a little boat that was towed behind our ferry from the town of Babushkin. It is similar to the boat we took out into the center of Lake Baikal to drink the pure water of the lake.
The second time I visited Prospekt Vernadskogo I visited Natasha’s dorm, a many-storied building depicted here. Natasha is one of our praktikanti (student-helpers). I met her roommates and we talked a lot about Russia and America. I told them how I was glad to have access to cheap, fresh food in Moscow. Natasha and her roommates were shocked at the price of food in America and lack of access to fresh food in cities.
After we learned that our hostel did not exist, we spent the first night in Petersburg in a deluxe five star hotel called “Akyan”. I drew this view in the hotel because I wanted to remember how nice and comfortable the hotel room–called a “nomera” in Russian–was.
This is a monument we saw in St. Petersburg that marks the water height of the highest floods the city experienced. The highest black bar marks the 1824 flood, which Pushkin wrote about in his poem “The Bronze Horseman”.
This was the building I visited during my first trip to Prospekt Vernadskogo. I met an MGU geology student in a Burger King inside this shopping center. He complained about how MGU was stuck in the past and expressed how he wished that the university would be more modern.
I saw birch trees and Siberian pine on the train ride to Vladimir. I tried to capture the fast movement of the train with black trees and a bright full moon.
