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...Excursion: Abramtsevo, the estate of Savva Mamontov, 19th century industrialist and patron of the arts. It's 80 minutes by local train (elektrichka) from the Yaroslav Station, then a 10-to-20-minute walk through pleasant woods. Price around $3.50. Closed, like nearly all museums, on Mondays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walk on the Wild Side | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...forth to a rustic cottage in the city's fringing forests. In modern, jampacked Moscow, he is more and more a year-rounder, living in the country because he has no place else to live, and commuting, like the U.S. suburbanite (see BUSINESS), by train-the 8:02 elektrichka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Creeping Private Enterprise | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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