The small community of Bogolyubovo is often overlooked by tourists seeing the sights of Russia's famed Golden Ring... but if you're in the Vladimir Region, it's definitely worth an afternoon.
About forty-five minutes from the small Russian city of Vladimir sits the remains of the Khrapovitsky Estate, a former glorious monument to the wealth and megalomania of the Russian nobility, now disintegrating into the weeds.
On September 1 2004, terrorists stormed School Number One and took over 1,100 hostages. In all, more than 330 died, most were children.
In May of 2006, I traveled to a remote part of Siberian Russia: Olkhon Island, located on Lake Baikal. This is my story.