Multimedia Extravaganza

There is great news for you my friends.  It is very recent that I have been to put up photographs of Beautiful Voronezh on the website for the entire world to see forever and ever increasing.  You know that it is true we are in the 21st century and as I look to grow the my business adventure it is important to spread the good word about Anton Petrovich Tours.  Olga tell to me just the other day "Anton you are idiot, you need to get with it or else!"  "Olga" I say to her your harrassment and interventions in matter of business are not welcome, but what you say is brilliant, because I am always looking at ways to get with it and that is why I now put upon my clients potential beautiful pictures of our beloved Voronezh.  This is the future Olga, soon everybody will do this.  Olga then is sighing her beautiful sigh like she is being in condition of overwhelmed by my grreatness.

But there is more to tell no time has been passed then I go back to the checking for responses on http://www.antonpetrovich.blogspot.com/ I see that once again the thousands of people are being shy about the love for wanting to know more about what is future of my business.  It is okay people are often being speechless around my person.  I say this so that you are not feeling bad yet.  "Anton!" you are yelling, "what more to tell can there be, the truth is you have said everything you can say!"  Well, okay I will not be have you suspended no more.  I was sent 30 second commercial for Anton Petrovich Tours.  It is unbelievable.  A tremendous gift.  So here I am showing the global community for the first time.  Please enjoy yourselves.

Beautiful Voronezh - A selection of prints

After many times with the potential guests of myself determinadely saying "Anton, Anton we must have the pictures before we are of the mind to come to you, please we insist it be so that you place upon your unique web presence the images so we can be deciding if it is as you say it is to be."  So, without further ado I place herein the photos that I am taking for the viewing pleasures.

A great example of an old church building

The same building but excepting the fact that it is the side.

LOOK! The Poplar Fluff.  It will get into your nostrils and will be to make you sneeze

Hello Stefan my friend my what a great entrepreneur are you

So you can see now that you must come.  You are being missing already. 

You will be pleasing to know that I am working upon my writing of a masterpiece.  It is slow because of my expanding of the business.  I look forward to when next I am telling you of my business exploiting.  Please it is my pleasure always to share my beautiful city of Voronezh.  You are welcome.









My Apologies

Dear reader,

 I say you are dear because that is the thing you are to me. You are being dear to me because it is so that you are taking of the time to read what I only a humble tour guide from the time to time will be writing. You will be acknowledging that for some time I have not been fulfilling my end of the bargain. My writing here has not been very constant. I am sorry for these turn of events but the truth is that I have been feeling out of sorts for some time with best regards to my chosen profession. I know that it is so that you answer back Anton, Anton! What is the meaning of this? Thus this is the meaning of this. I have shared with you my familial problems who are my mother, my brother and sometimes my wife who insist on me staying under kitchen table if I have lived a little too much the night before the morning after - so to say. I do this for the encouragement of the many millions of peoples who experience same experiences that I experience. And of course I share with you my special love for my city of Voronezh. You see I love the things I do and my work, but it is for these many months that I felt out of sorts. I have been thinking that what I really want to be is a writer. For this reason I have been conflicted which makes much sense because very good writers from Russia have been feeling conflicted in the past all the time. I am thinking long and hard that when I reach the end of my days, people will not be to remember myself as the best tour guide Voronezh was blessed to have, which is something people will be doing as it is only natural, and I am a weak man powerless in the face of such a thing to stop them, but rather I would like for people to say: "You know that Anton Petrovich, the one who was best tour guide in Voronezh and perhaps the whole of Russia, well did you know that he is also great writer - not only of short stories but also of plays - and he is as good as Chekhov and Tolstoy." "Yes.", the person's friend and confidant will retort. "I have knowledge of him, there is a museum in his beautiful home city dedicated to his whole life, and so many people come from all places that it can never close."


And so it will be that I am now an author being number one and a tour guide being number 2. It is correct that I continue to be tour guide because it pays the bills and I am the best. Maybe one day I will receive a payment for something I am writing but as me darling wife is always saying I should not count on it. So you see I have been grappling with these two callings as person grappling with two slippery snakes and it has been keeping me busy these days. But rest assured I am getting the grapple worked out and will keep telling to you much about my life once more. I am sorry for all I have put you through with the worry of not being any the wiser about what I have been having the pleasures in these days past. But you must keep coming back because that is life. I am looking forward with smiling to the day I can show you my beautiful city and take you to be full of delight at performance of one of my plays in the future. For now I must leave you. Do not cry! Anton will be coming back soon.

Freedom

Of course I must tell to you that my familial affairs are appearing to begin to be in good working order again.  Olga has taken me back into her bosom after having problem with her husband singing the folk songs with his friend in the dead of the morning.  Even of more interesting notation is the reappearing of my beloved mother in all of our lives.  Until this time she has been being incarcerating in the Voronezh Region Home for Incalcitrant Grandmothers.  We are over the moon in my family.  Happy as Larry, I am feeling like the proverbial cat who has been inbibing of the proverbial cream.  Perhaps I also will acquaint myself with having opportunity for the mastication of cake and not just having the cake.  What wonderous news her emancipation is to our ears these days.  The authorities tell to us she is completely normalised, and she has told myself that there will not be anymore priest bashing.  Believe me or don't she is meeting with priest with whom she became entangled for tea these next few days.  My mother is a saint, surely she is most knowledgable now regarding the turning over of many leaves.

Despite the most happiness we are partaking of, still I am feeling within my body emotions for my brother.  His situation still continues.  But he tell to us soon they will be seeing folly of what they be doing to him, and he also will be free to breath air on the outside and toast many time to many things.

Dear potential guest, perhaps you say, this Anton he is speaking so much of this personal situation.  Yes I will say to you I am because I must.  I am not able to constrain myself.  Just as is the way you will be unable to constrain yourself when you are meeting my family for most unimaginable time here in Voronezh.  Without family  who are we I say.  We are in need of family so that we can be born and have in ourselves succulent foods and emotive supporting.  Without my family I would not be Anton Petrovich, instead it is possible I would not be myself one jot or tiddle.  Maybe I would be Mikhail Stepanovich the most beloved school teacher of the village of Ananova wherever this is.  It is possible I will be finding myself reaping potatoes but this is not me.  It is fortunate for you that this is not me, because if this was being so you would not have opportunity - a fine opportunity at that I put to you - of adjoining me as you sojourn here in beautiful Voronezh.  No we are pleased to know that I am myself and I have big plans for my business.  You will be thrilled to be receiving my knowledge and hospitality also.  This I can tell because you have been showing to me your support for my business adventure.

This I say to you my friends (forgive my informality) we have good days ahead.

Beware Babushka

It is a very important part of being number one tour guide that means I take very serioulsly the task of letting my clients be knowing of things important to make holidays in Voronezh most perfect and SAFE.

It is in being concerned for well beings of tourist that  I have decided to inform to you how is best to be handling our grandmothers.  Also I am having the time on my fingers why because Olga will not be allowing myself for the time being to depart from the apartment.  She tell to me "The next time you are being all of the night in street drunk and singing old communist songs in you will never be eating or partaking of any type of companionship here in our home."  So here I am under the table hiding while my lovely wife watches favorite movie Rambo.

I think you will be surprising to hear that our grandmothers who we call here babushkas are not very soft.  I know it is incredible but it is true.  They can look like maybe they are soft to the touch but really they are not.  When you give them a poke or squeeze you can see that they are very solid and not squishy at all.  Anton, Anton you are saying, why are telling to us this news?  Why is it very important?  It is because if you do not understand the mind of the babushka then you may not long survive in this most beautiful city.  Please do try and be of close attentiveness to what I tell to you next.

They are everywhere always they be looking, and looking some more.  They have to them many tricks up their bulging sleeves.  You will be attentive in noticing them always in groups maybe is only group of two maybe is group of five maybe more.  It is seldom been seeing one on its own, except to say in between the travel from one group of babushki to one other group of babushki.  Information does travel with swiftness among these imparticular beings.

It is difficult to say for whom they be working for.  But mark this foreign guest.  They will be watching to you, and if you have the behaviour which is to be found offensive, they will tell to you this very much so.  You can not be escaping the gaze of the babushki.

They will be monitoring your every coming and your every going to places near and far.  If you stay in prestigious hotel they will be knowing this, yet also if you be staying in shack they know also, and if you are in apartment you must pass by them everytime you enter and exit from building.  You may visit market, store, canteen, post office, opera theatre, they see you.   Even if you find you are angered by their cold dark stares you must not be getting into physical positions with them.  They will break you, do not try this as I say before this, they are not squishy.

Please do not let them stop you from embarking on most amazing journey to beautiful city of Voronezh.  I am containing within myself the knowledge to deal with the omnipotent and omniscient babushka.  It is knowledge that has been hard earned but I am generous in passing it onto you.  So when you come to be my guest you will say you are glad you have Anton as tour guide he really is the best I hope only good things for him and the developmentalness of his business.  Such a shame we will not be able to meet his nice brother.

Of course I say thank you for your thoughts so kind, but also I pass on many thanks to tram driver institute for such fine education I have received at there.  Maybe you will like to be visiting it also.

It is to me so very important thing to acknowledge my coming up short in area of writing the words on my blog.  You see my brother, the one and the very same to whom I have aforementioned was to be coming out from of prison, but we had the communication with important official to say he will have more time to be thinking about his life decisions.

I have had momentous time dealing with emotion that is overwhelming me with sensing of disappointedness at the news.  I am in the place of embattlement I find it hard to shake.  My mother has even been to see the priest.  She say to him how can this be happening for sure Volodya has been learning his lessons?  The priest who is of a wise disposition she tell to her these words.  "If you can't serve the time don't do the crime."  What words of comfort are those?  My mother was not happy.  As she proceeded to beat this priest the local militsia were happening to be coming past in 4x4 vehicle and stopped and put her in the trunk. 

For 2 months she was in home for incalcitrant grandmothers.  This is upsetting to me because how can they say she is grandmother when my marriage to Olga has been most unproductive.  But there is in my heart joy because in a few days she will be normalised and allow back in society. 

So there it is my business plan have been put in the hold for this time, but I know that soon I will be back on the streets of my beautiful city taking back my place as great tour guide.  Then you can visit to this place and I will accept your condolences with humility that you have heard of my struggles.  You will say to me," Anton Petrovich, you have been through so much, and we are so sorry for this, please take some of this hard currency, see how crisp the bills are and that they are not more than a couple of years old.  It is all we have but maybe it will help you to fight injustice in your most beautiful city."  And I will tell to you,  "yes".

Such times we will be having. Maybe it will be too much enjoying for you to start your tour, but I will tell you this, and mark it well kind sirs that in order to really understand a place you must first be starting to understand it peoples. For this reasons I want for you to spend much time getting knowledge of my members of family. Of course you will be reminded of famous russian humour when I tell you that many peoples can not be having an understanding of my family. Like to say they just don't get them. So perhaps you will also have same troubles. Do not worry, there will be much opportunity for you to be meeting different people, who perhaps will be a little easier to like.

I have small confession to make. To me it is very important that you are being at ease in my city. So as you can tell I make very large habit of trying to put you at your ease. I know how difficult it can be to wake up and find yourself in strange bed surrounded by people you are not in the knowledge of. Sometimes I have nightmares.

Back to business. When you have been well rested and have received food and water, and perhaps even had little bit of scrub down in bucket. Then we will commence our mornings activities. I get so excited about my business empire that I just start enthusing. You know, I enthuse to here, to there, and all of everywhere. It's like a really bad disease. It is like I have very bad runny nose and where in all the places I am going to I spread my enthuses. This is reminds me of funny story. Please be most comfortable as I relay to you this.

My wife Olga, who was once very beautiful, she tell to me that sometimes she is scared I will infect her. But of course I tell to her, don't be so stupid fat lady I'm not belonging to the loose morals of ukrainian peasant. I only sleep with one woman and last time was 7 count them 7 years has past hence. I am reminding her that she is only woman I have been in cahoots with. And you know this is funny bit, when I have finished chastising Olga and she comes out from under kitchen table. She tell to me this wonderful thing. Anton, she speaks to me, you are not having any possible way of infecting me in that department because you have not been capable of finding the soap in the bathroom for very long time, but I love you. What I am saying is that you the most enthusing man the world has ever seen, and maybe sometimes you almost make me enthused a little bit.

Isn't that great, she is correct. I try not to be so enthusing at home because there isn't the room, but when I am out about with people who are learning about my city from me well I can not help enthuse it is like blood and I am vampire who must have it. But I am not really. So do not be scarred come visit with us.
I will blog to you soon more of the delights of my city and what untold joys you can be experiencing within its limits.

Happy days!

Anton