Are Russian hotels different from Moscow counterparts?
They haven’t changed much since Gogol and his Dead Souls. I often go to provincial towns, for instance Simbirsk. In the past it was hip to go to Lenin’s native town. Now the place looks sad, hotels are rundown, they are rented out piecemeal. A hotel is like a living critter, if you stop attending, it starts decaying: suddenly an elevator stops, light goes out, phones turn silent, etc. Sometimes you are even unable to call Moscow, which feels too barbarous for a civilized person. I feel pain at that for I was born there and they elected me the citizen emeritus of the town. They opened Nicas cafeteria, they keep my paintings in the local museum. I can’t help the town much, unfortunately. I’m no financier. Q: Why do you need travels’? A: To me, a travel is the source of inspiration. On the galactic time scale, a man lives only 5 seconds, but due to travels he can extend his life by 7 to 9 years, and sometimes he enters the eternity. It is awkward to try and make a judgment of people of th
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