Tbilisi, Georgia

Hanging restaurant and hotel balconies over the Mt'k'vari River.

Home of deceased oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili.

The Bank of Georgia headquarters was originally the Ministry of Highways during Soviet rule. Built in 1975.

Orthodox churches date back as far as the 6th century. During the Soviet period, when religion was outlawed, the walls of this church were painted and chipped off.

Narikala Fortress overlooking the city after sunset.

Homemade Wine and Chacha

Stalin's Museum

Joseph Stalin's chessboard

Mozart's Chocolate Cream

I now wish you a good night, shit in your bed with all your might, sleep with peace on your mind, and try to kiss your own behind; I now go off to never-never land and sleep as much as I can stand. Tomorrow we’ll speak freak sensubly with each other. Things I must you tell a lot of, believe it you hardly can, but hear tomorrow it already will you, be well in the meantime. Oh my ass burns like fire! what on earth is the meaning of this!—maybe muck wants to come out? yes, yes, muck, I know you, see you, taste you—and—what’s this—is it possible? Ye Gods!—Oh ear of mine, are you deceiving me?—No, it’s true—what a long and melancholic sound!

(excerpt from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's letter to his cousin Marianne)

Astana

Kazakh National Museum

Kazakhstan was the last nation to officially leave the Soviet Union on December 16th, 1991.

Nursultan Nazarbayev. First and current President of Kazakhstan. 1990-present.

Zhezkazgan city

Zhezkazgan means "the copper diggers" in Kazakh. 

Nationally known for horse meat and kumis (fermented horse milk).

Victory Day Parade - 9th of May (CIS nations WW2 victory celebration day)