Patrick Hazell enjoying homemade vodka, cakes, and garden produce with a friend in her Udmurtian village home.                       Udmurtian Village dinner hosts in the courtyard green of their farmstead where a long table sat full of homemade and homegrown food--and vodka. The woman on the right built the farm on her own.

Patrick Hazell playing the piano in the boyhood home of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) in the Udmurt Republic village of Votkinsk, Russia. It is the piano upon which Tchaikovsky learned to play.