The Long And Grinding Road ;Driving the Soviet Highways

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870628
Author:Celestine Bohlen

ON THE ROAD IN THE SOVIET UNION-It is a long road from Moscow to Yalta by car-about the same distance as the trek from New York to St. Louis. But that's where the comparison must end-abruptly, like one of the potholes in Melitopol, a bleak town of yawning craters in the Ukraine.

In theory, the trip should give a feeling of the immense sweep and drama of Russian landscape and history. The road is the same one Leo Tolstoy used to take from Moscow to his estate at Yasnaya Polyana, and Ivan Turgenev to his estate at Spasskoye Lutovinovo, and that Anton Chekhov took to Yalta itself. The route, ...

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