Archive - In the Field

Wind on the Danube

A postcard from Vienna

Aug 8 •

Stepan Sveshnikov

July 2025

Castaways on an Arctic Island

Surviving the winter of 1690

Jul 1 •

Stepan Sveshnikov

March 2025

A bad year for fishing

History and the sea

Mar 13 •

Stepan Sveshnikov

February 2025

December 2024

A strange obsession with painting the forest

Dec 28, 2024 •

Stepan Sveshnikov

November 2024

Anchors set you free

How we came to live on a sailboat

Nov 26, 2024 •

Stepan Sveshnikov

From the Archives: "I dreamed I took the cows to graze"

From the diary of G.Ia. Sitnikov

Nov 11, 2024 •

Stepan Sveshnikov

October 2024

Notes from Archangel

Two days in a northern city.

Oct 21, 2024 •

Stepan Sveshnikov

In Azerbaijan: Chapter 4

In which goats herd sheep, I narrowly escape conversion to Islam, and the cows come home.

Oct 7, 2024 •

Stepan Sveshnikov

September 2024

In Azerbaijan: Chapter 3

In which I occupy the apartment of an Oscar-winning writer, am advised against bribing the police, and learn that the road to the village is closed.

Sep 27, 2024 •

Stepan Sveshnikov

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