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Professional waiter Anton Andreyev
All good restaurant owners know that the success of their business depends heavily on having a professional chef, a cosy space, a gourmet menu – and, of course, a strong team of experienced servers. It is upon them that customers base much of their opinion of the venue. The server is the face of a restaurant. In order to gain both recognition and a devoted customer following one of a restaurant’s best weapons is impeccable service and a smile. Anton Andreyev, the star of this programme, has worked as a server for over 20 years and understands better than anyone that hospitality is a unique art in which the small things play the most important role.
The national presidential library
In the 21st century, many book collections are digital archives that are not susceptible to the wear and tear their paper brothers once feared. St. Petersburg’s Presidential Library is home to the largest virtual collection in Russia — one of more than 250,000 books on history and law in addition to rare documents and editions. A large part of these resources are available online to whoever wants them, but there are also some that can only be used in the library’s own reading room in the historic Synod building. A 3-D model of the publication appears on the computer screen so that readers can thoroughly examine the cover, text and illustrations. There they can also find all of the hand-written notes made hundreds of years ago by people such as the author or other readers, including Emperor Peter the First.
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The national presidential library
Fly-fishing for loach in Kamchatka
The Kamchatka Peninsula in the north-eastern part of Eurasia is home to 14,000 streams and rivers. Their most numerous inhabitants are charr, with at least eight different species inhabiting Kamchatkan waters. These fish can be distinguished based on their varying colour, size and shape. They serve as a true and worthy opponent to even the most experienced fisherman, and it is a real treat when one of them catches a bite. Kamchatka is 460,000 square kilometres of difficult-to-live-on terrain. Nevertheless, getting the chance to cast a line in this far-off, volcano-covered land is a life-long dream for many a fisherman.
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