PUBLIC MARKS with tag russie

Petropavlovsk, Petropavlovsk. Cette ville était rapidement devenue “PK” dans nos échanges de mails. PK : j’aime l’abstraction de cette dénomination qui claque dans le silence géographique de la carte… comme une cible militaire. Je ne me sens pas capable de proposer de PK une conception unifiée, cohérente ni spécifique. Ce qui distingue PK des autres villes, je n’en sais rien. Peut-être toutes les autres villes ont-elles d’ailleurs quelque chose de PK.

Yankicha View

Fog surrounds Yankicha Island, but the middle remains strangely empty.

The great Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, goes across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of Russia without leaving your house. During the trip, you can enjoy Russian classic literature, brilliant images and fascinating stories about the most attractive sites on the route. Let's go!

‘For three periods of one month, I have let the Trans-Siberian train guide me alongside forgotten villages, from living room to living room. Some Russian words scribbled on a little piece of paper allowed me to be welcomed and absorbed in the warm chaos of a family. Accidental encounters led me to the places where I could sleep. The living room, the epicentre of their life, establishes an intimate contact between the Russian inhabitants. In this room, they sleep, eat and drink, as well as cry. For a brief moment, I was part of this. Their couch became my bed for one night. This way, I experienced transient, but very powerful, shared moments. We communicated without words. We understood each other somehow’.

This is part one of the trip to Beijing: Moscow to Irkutsk (with a trip to St. Petersburg).