Travel to Russia with Reedies

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The Reed alumni office and Russian department are happy to announce our next Russia tour, scheduled for January 7-22, 2012.  

This year, in addition to our usual thorough coverage of Russia’s extraordinary museums, performance halls, and historical sites, we will give special attention to its rich literary legacy, visiting Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy’s estate south of Moscow, as well as his home in Moscow and the museum apartments in Moscow and Petersburg of other important figures, including Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Anna Akhmatova. We will also make an overnight excursion from Petersburg to Novgorod the Great, Russia’s oldest city and the home of some of its most beautiful medieval architecture. 

Besides a carefully designed itinerary of exceptional richness, the program will include lectures on Russian history and culture by the tour leader, former Reed Russian professor Judson Rosengrant, and local experts.  The tour requires no knowledge of the Russian language and is open to anyone interested in learning directly about Russia, its complex history and culture, and its place in the modern world.

For complete information, contact Dr. Rosengrant at jrosengrant@earthlink.net or 503/880-9521.

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