Home	Kaluga A formerly closed city, SW of Moscow, we visited for the first time in 1999 and again in 2001

Play therapy at the sanatorium for handicaped children At this center, situated in a forest, we found 275 children cared for by over 200 staff (!), devoted enough to do this for wages of about $20 per month.	Tasting the products of the Kristal vodka & liqueur factory
Properly attired to visit the Optina Pustyn monastery in Kozelsk	The bus station for the return to Moscow Does our hostess, Olga (center) look happy to see us leave?
River bank	Church courtyard in Kozelsk, near Kaluga About as typical a rural Russian scene as on can get.

Photo List
Our residence	Soviet food shop	1997 group	1988 group	Farm field trips	Troubled factory
The talking part	Communist demonstration	Kaluga	Victory Day, Gorky Park	Kids	School 1198
2001 group