Thank you for sharing this very important and personal information with all of us and for educating your followers! We'll miss your videos, but you're health is the most important thing right now. Hopefully, at some point in the future, you'll continue to take all of us with you on your adventures! Love and prayers friend ❤️

All the good energy, light, prayers and positive thoughts to you, my old friend!! You have a large support group in your family and friends to help you through this obstacle!! And wonderful advice for us all to follow. Take all the time you need!!

Very informative and beautiful! I love your opening 007!!!!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ it! Such history!

I've shared your videos with Lyndsay to share with her travel companions! Awesome adventure, thanks for documenting and sharing all of your experiences with us!

Absolutely beautiful photography and music selection!!!! Awesome job Paul ☺️

I grow up in Kadıköy my childhood now in the State 35 years I haven’t been in old country 21 years now. I really appreciate your video. Enjoy the city. Be safe.❤

Great video thanks❤

I'd like to share as common as it may be seem, Otto is a German name not Turkish. It been a long tradition of naming Turks with demeaning name by European historians. Turks at the beginning called them Osmanogullari, has nothing to do with Otto name. its like calling Mark, Margaret. later on changed their "Official correspondence title" to Devlet-i Aliye which used in Sultanate. Turks never used the Empire word. After conquering Constantinople, they kept the city name as original and Mehmet declared himself as 'Sultanate of Rome' as well. Which was the end of East Roman Empire, not Byzantium.

So glad you were able to have such an amazing experience!! And thank you for sharing this with all of us.

Excellent content and commentary! New subscriber. ❤🎉❤

Slovenia is not balcan

How was the food ? Recommend or do not recommend

Great capture of the city. Thanks for sharing

Your photography skills are impressive love the choice of music.

Great video and music references.

Again. Great musical choice and wonderful adventure

Seznam otokov v Sloveniji / List of islands of Slovenia - Wikipedia P.S: Slovenia has a small coast and therefore is not landlocked.

Very enjoyable and again the music and video was great.

Slovenia do not belong to Balkan countries.

You are a motivator ❤. Keep your energy always like this. Thanks for sharing 😊

Great views and music thank you

Putins propagande Stay there and fys

Thanks!

Welcome to St. Petersburg!

What beautiful weather you are having! And in Moscow there is still a lot of snow.

3:41 Курский вокзал ?

Санкт-Петербург основан Императором Петром Первым в 1703 году! А Москва основана Ярлом Юрием "Длинные Руки" Святославовичем в 1147 году

похоже что в Москве вы НЕ покатались на Метро (БКЛ) и Электрокатерах "Синичка" ледового класса (Речной Шаттл)

Вы непосетили ни одной Церкви (Собора/Храма)

и у нас Замкнутый Цикл Ядерной Энергетики (для России Атмоная Энергия - Возобновляемый Источник Энергии то есть Экологичный)!

Россия использует 75% Ядерной энергии и только 25% остальные типы Электростанций!

В Питере как и в Москве дешевле Общественный транспорт (ИСПОЛЬЗУЙТЕ МЕТРО!)!

Поправка Сименс заказали у Мытищинского Вагоностроительного завода 6 поездов (2 поезда одиночных и 2 двойных)

Нахрена ты себя снимаешь когда идешь по незнакомому городу ? Иногда невежество американце выбешивает ! 🧐

Putins troll Beurkkkkk

ребята неужели они и правда ,что Р

Orc Propaganda

This video made me realize it's been 4 years already since covid breakout and 2022 mutual flights ban between Russia and the West. As a moscovite, i actually got really used to almost complete absence of European and American tourists in the streets. And now, that i've started to notice them every now and then, i'm being torn between my desire for economy to prosper from more tourists and for tourists to prosper emotionally and intellectually from visiting a new country on one hand, and the fact that the city without tourists is so much cleaner, quiter, and in general more comfortable to live in on the other hand. I'm not judging anyone of course and i welcome everyone from whatever country they are from, it's just Moscow is a pretty dence city and there's a certain limit of people it can effectively 'handle'... Anyway, great video, kind of nostalgic even! And it's a good idea to upload it now. I've come across a couple of prominent travel vlogers breaking this ice recently. I'm sure your video is going to contribute to this healthy trend.

@14:31 You said "Soviet Union" ice-cream. You are wrong. You bought a "RUSSIAN" ice cream. The Stalinist "Soviet Union" doesn't exist anymore. The era of "Soviet Union" regime is gone already for 35 years.

Очень понятный для меня английский . Чистый😊. Thank you very much!

Всё верно. Чтобы судить о России и её народах, надо приехать сначала в Россию и увидеть все своими глазами! Пропагандой занимаются либо старые пердуны, либо люди которые не были в России! Добро пожаловать! Соприкасаетесь с великой смысловой страной!

Fellow KZbinr here. If you separate politics from Russian life and nature, its true that Russia itself is a very interesting place. Unfortunately, as a citizen of Russia, my relatives have been subject to countless disasters - revolution, Stalin, wars, 90s. Our money has been stolen and confiscated multiple times, hence the poverty that Soviet citizens lived in. Once you live through that, it's not that much fun anymore.

Походу дофига шпионов нам напихали,всех выявили и оббеняем на наших,когото сразу под расстрел.

C 2019 по 2023 годы в Москве достроили БКЛ (Большую Кольцевую Линию), ввели в эксплуатацию 4 линии МЦД (Московские Центральные Диаметры D1-D4), запустили по Москва-реке 2 маршрута МРД (Московские Речные Диаметры E-Ship "Синичка") Заменили Троллейбусы на Электробусы!

Спасибо!

4:24 together with Vladimir it was a second center of the very same princedom, which included the village of Moscow and was known as Vladimir-Suzdal princedom. At some point this princedom inherited position of the seat of Grand Duke from Kiev and for a long time this title held symbolic importance. For short time it was a center of the region and the city and its citizens were the backbone of Moscow's Grand Dukes rise to power. Btw many citizens of ancient Kiev fled to these lands, when Kiev was razed to the ground by invading Mongols. 4:32 true, but not entirely. It is a very specific word for specific fortress - a fortified city center, it's most ancient and protected part. Usually city's ruler resided there and his administrative apparatus situated there also. I can present two examples. In the city of Pskov, which in its heyday had three layers of walls(and one separate wall across the river) only the innermost hailed as kremlin. And only one wich I'm aware of with a personal name - "the Krom"(it's essentially an even older version of the same word - kremlin). In the city of Voronezh there is no kremlin, although it is started as a standalone fortress, but it is called "fortress", not "kremlin". 8:56 it's not "sweetened" with honey. Honey is a base for this drink, its sugars are what yeast is using in fermenting process. 17:40 it was not Stalin's personal decision, it was a decision of Politburo. To add a little context - the start of the 20th century was one of the times in humanity's history when there was a tremendous enthusiasm about science, and prospects, which it brings, especially in the Soviet Union. Studying Lenin's - presumably - genius brain was considered an important matter. Also, there were talks at that time, that in the near future science will make resurrection possible, so preserving Lenin's body made avenue for that possibility. On more down-to-Earth level there were throngs of people, who were coming to see Lenin off from all around the country and due to limited means of transport it required them quite some time to get to Moscow, so preserving the body made sense in that regard too.

2019

24:42 it's The Arsenal. 24:59 no, this is a public building "State Conventions Palace", although Communist Party's conventions were held there most of the time it was(and is) used for concerts, theater plays, ballet and other performances. 25:13 no, that's Russian State crest. It was first used at the times of Ivan the Third, who, ofc, was of Rurikids direct male line. Romanoffs tended to use state crest as their personal, so it may have caused some misunderstandings along the line. Their own crest was officiated in 19th century as red standing gryffin with sword and shield, but their earliest crest was most likely a black Prussian eagle with gryffin and lion as secondary symbols. Russian heraldry had't had the same level of unification and order as west European one, so some families kind of invented a "historical" crest for themselves from different sources, when they discovered a neeed in one. In Russia, although family crests were not unknown or unused nobles inclined more towards inventing and using personal crests as far as I know.

Wonderful❤❤