Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby ( BBC, 2008) Ep. 2

Episode 2 Country Matters Jonathan Dimbleby leaves the action of Moscow behind and journeys through Russia s countryside in search of the country s eternal spirit. His travels take him to the family estate of Leo Tolstoy, arguably the greatest of Russia s writers, and to Pyatigorsk on the northern edge of the great Caucasus mountains, where Tolstoy served as an army officer. Travelling past Beslan, Jonathan confronts the harsh reality of the Chechen war on a visit to th