Russia 6 - Couverture souple

After studying Russian history and politics during university. Simon first visited the country in 1994 when he wandered goggle eyed around gorgeous St Petersburg and peeked at Lenin's mummified corpse in Red Square. He's since travelled the breadth of the nation from Kamchatka in the Far East to Kaliningrad in the far west, stopping off at many points between. An award-winning writer and photographer, Simon is the coauthor of Lonely Planet's Trans-Siberian Railway editions 1, 2 and 3; Russia editions 3, 4 and 5: and many other titles for the company, ranging from Cape Town to Korea.