On the jarring, 12-hour drive from St. Petersburg to Moscow, another Russia comes into view, one where people struggle with problems that belong to past centuries.
NYT photo/video essay about the communities along M10, the Russian highway that links Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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| Aleksandr Chertkov repaired his vehicle near the village of Chernaya Gryaz, which is known for its prostitutes and, equally, for televised police raids on prostitution. The women are mostly shop workers recruited from provincial cities, who waver on high heels on the highway’s shoulder as 18-wheelers blow past. |
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| Residents washed clothes in a river near a stretch of the M10 highway where the condition of the road is so dismal that from time to time it makes national news. |
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| In an area where neglect and disrepair are the norm, the 17th-century Iversky Monastery has undergone a swift and lustrous renovation. President Vladimir V. Putin has a vacation home next door. |
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