Michael Pugh is a lawyer, academic and founder of the Llangwm Literary Festival. He has been a keen observer of life in the former Soviet Union since his first visit to Moscow as a student in 1992. Michael is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has written about Ukraine for the Sunday Times and the Royal Geographical Society. He spent six years as a partner for Hogan Lovells in Moscow before leaving by horse.

'Michael Pugh already knew Russia well when he decided to leave his job in Moscow to go on a three month riding trip to Transylvania. The result, humorous, evocative and endlessly absorbing, is a mesmerising book, one that can take its place alongside Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts and Colin Thubron’s In Siberia. I don’t often wish that a book were twice its length, but Pugh’s adventures in rural Russia and the personalities that he brings to life are irresistible.'

Michael Pugh is a lawyer, academic and founder of the Llangwm Literary Festival. He has been a keen observer of life in the former Soviet Union since his first visit to Moscow as a student in 1992. Michael is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has written about Ukraine for the Sunday Times and the Royal Geographical Society. He spent six years as a partner for Hogan Lovells in Moscow before leaving by horse.

'Michael Pugh already knew Russia well when he decided to leave his job in Moscow to go on a three month riding trip to Transylvania. The result, humorous, evocative and endlessly absorbing, is a mesmerising book, one that can take its place alongside Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts and Colin Thubron’s In Siberia. I don’t often wish that a book were twice its length, but Pugh’s adventures in rural Russia and the personalities that he brings to life are irresistible.'

Michael Pugh is a lawyer, academic and founder of the Llangwm Literary Festival. He has been a keen observer of life in the former Soviet Union since his first visit to Moscow as a student in 1992. Michael is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has written about Ukraine for the Sunday Times and the Royal Geographical Society. He spent six years as a partner for Hogan Lovells in Moscow before leaving by horse.

'Michael Pugh already knew Russia well when he decided to leave his job in Moscow to go on a three month riding trip to Transylvania. The result, humorous, evocative and endlessly absorbing, is a mesmerising book, one that can take its place alongside Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts and Colin Thubron’s In Siberia. I don’t often wish that a book were twice its length, but Pugh’s adventures in rural Russia and the personalities that he brings to life are irresistible.'