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  • A woman walks on a sidewalk along the edge of the Griebodov Canal outside the Church of our Saviour on the Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Suppression and neglect during the Soviet era have bequeathed restoration artists like Vyacheslav Grankovskiy with a lifetime of restoration work.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy in his studio in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav ?Slava? Grankovskiy in his studio workshop behind his home in Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg, Russia, with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 53 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 184 pounds. The son of a Soviet-era collective farm leader, he was raised near the Black Sea and originally worked as an artist and engineer. Over the years, he's learned a few dozen crafts, which eventually enabled him to restore a vast number of objects, build his own house, and be his own boss. His travel adventures have included crossing the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, where he spent time with a blind hermit and dined with a Mongol woman who hunted bears and treated him to groundhog soup. His favorite drink: Cognac. Does he ever drink soda? ?No, I use cola in restoration to remove rust, not to drink,? he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Kremlin in Suzdal, Russia.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy at the kitchen table with his family at their home in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fireworks over Moscow, Russia. Red Square is on the far left.
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  • Wedding party by Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow, Russia.
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  • Red Square with crowds and a McDonald's sign. Moscow, Russia.
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  • Hand painted nesting dolls, Moscow, Russia.
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  • Hand painted nesting dolls, Moscow, Russia.
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  • The apartment building on Kotyelnicheskaya Nabyerezhnaya embankment in Moscow, Russia. One of Stalin's Seven Sisters.
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  • Dinner at Vyacheslav Grankovskiy's home in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia.  (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy eats dinner with his family in the kitchen of their home in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • An inside view of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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  • Ancient Russian knives and daggers exhibited at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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  • An inside view of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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  • Peterhof, sometimes refered to as the Russian Versailles, outside St. Petersburg, Russia was built by Peter the Great in the early 1700s.
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  • Peterhof, sometimes refered to as the Russian Versailles, outside St. Petersburg, Russia was built by Peter the Great in the early 1700s.
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  • GUM Department store, Moscow, Russia. Gosudarstvenny Universalny Magazin: GUM, State Department Store which is now like a huge indoor mall with many shops stores and restaurants.
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  • Kiosk selling toy guns, flags, etc. in Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy's tools in his home studio in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy with his wife at his home in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia.  (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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  • One of Stalin's "Seven Sisters" buildings in Moscow, Russia.
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  • Toy World store at GUMs Department Store in Red Square, Moscow, USSR. 1987.
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  • Dusk scene of Moscow with the Moscow River. On the left is a huge statue of Peter the Great on a sailing ship, and on the right is the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
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  • Sadam Hussein nesting dolls.
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  • Wintertime night view of St. Basil's Church with snow in Red Square, Moscow, USSR.
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  • Winter street scene with bundled shoppers near Red Square, Moscow, USSR. 1987.
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  • As suggested by this streetscape in Old Havana (the old city harbor) vintage vehicles are a regular mode of transportation throughout Cuba. Since 1962, the U.S. trade blockade has effectively prevented any new cars from arriving. But even though a few auto dealers in Europe and Russia are willing to defy the blockade and the attendant U.S. sanctions, not many Cubans have the money to buy new vehicles. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 99).
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  • A tourist views murals and statues at the vast State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Historic buildings like the museum and the Church of our Savior on Spilled Blood have occupied restoration artists like  Vyacheslav Grankovskiy for years due to suppression and neglect during the Soviet era.
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  • A yak grazes during a hail storm near the  Sichen Holy Lake near Ruthok, Tibet. 4,900 meters altitude, in Maldro Gunkar County. Yaks are found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia.
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  • A yak pauses to defecate while it grazes in the high altitude pastures of the Tibetan Plateau. Yak are found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia. In addition to a large domestic population, there is a small, vulnerable wild yak population. Wikipedia.
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  • Art restorer  Vyacheslav ?Slava? Grankovskiy (center)  enjoys supper with his family in their house, near on Lake Ladoga, in Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg, Russia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 53; 6a feet two inches and 184 pounds. The son of a Soviet-era collective farm leader, he was raised near the Black Sea and originally worked as an artist and engineer. Over the years, he's learned a few dozen crafts, which eventually enabled him to restore a vast number of objects, build his own house, and be his own boss. His travel adventures have included crossing the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, where he spent time with a blind hermit and dined with a Mongol woman who hunted bears and treated him to groundhog soup. His favorite drink: Cognac. Does he ever drink soda? ?No, I use cola in restoration to remove rust, not to drink,? he says.
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