For a year, beginning in July 2004, Simon Roberts travelled over 75,000 kilometres across the largest country on the globe. He visited the forgotten extremities of Russia’s vast territory, journeying to the Far East - Sakhalin Island, Magadan and Chukotka - through the Siberian provinces, across to Russia’s Western-most point, Kaliningrad; down to the Caucasus, along the Volga River and to the Altai Republic where Russia borders China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan.
The resulting project, entitled Motherland, is meant as a humble footnote to the current debate about Russian identity at a time of major geo-political, economic and social change within Russia.
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