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Grebeni Garden, Grebeni, Russia, 1992

"Childhood secrets sprout in a weedy garden in Grebeni, one of hundreds of villages lining the banks of Volga Mutushka, or Mother Volga. Though mechanized farming has transformed rural life throughout the Volga's heartland, echoes of Russia's past still linger in the sounds of laughter skipping across the river, the sunset barking of dogs, and the distant splashing of fishermen's oars."

—From "A Russian Voyage: From the White to Black Sea," June 1994, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by James P. Blair