Kamchatka — the place I’ll never visit

Well, highly unlikely. During my years in Russia, I made little effort to travel to far places. I didn’t even visit Saint Petersburg, the second biggest city, until my late 20s. The farthest east I traveled was the city of Barnaul, in Western Siberia. It was a very brief work trip when I was doing due diligence on a regional retail company. I am hesitant to generalize, but if you’re a Moscovite, which I am, you rarely get out of the world of the capital unless you travel for work.

I’ve not been back to Russia since I left in 2013, and given the events of recent…