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Autumn in Tomsk (still September)

It’s most unlikely I could get a morning like this in Russia. Here, my husband cooks breakfast almost every weekend. Actually, we do it together: he fries eggs and bacon, I do toasts and set a table. So, this morning I had time to browse the Internet.  This is what I found.  An American couple Brian Keith and Beth Ellen Mattisse received temporary residence permits in Russia. They will live in the Tomsk region. The resource did not specify where exactly: in the city or in the village. How are they going to make a living, what job to do, if they don’t speak Russian? I hope to learn it later. The resource said that the family has joined the Orthodox Church. I would love to see how the Mass was conducted. Did Dionisy Melentyev, rector of the Resurrection Church in Tomsk, conduct the ceremony in English specially for them? I doubt it. Although, who knows.  …So many questions.  According to Irina Volk (Official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Rus...