大象传媒

Bridget Kendall visits Oryol, a Russian provincial town with a rich literary heritage, and reflects on what the future holds for people and places far from Moscow. This place is associated with a long list of famous writers - Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Bunin, Nikolai Leskov, the poets Tyutchev and Fet, the short story writer Leonid Andreev - but feels increasingly adrift from the rest of the country. Is it really trapped in time - and do other regional towns share this fate?

(Photo: A woman outside her dilapidated home in Oryol. (c) 大象传媒 2015)