Editor’s note: for context on Max’s travel so far on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, see the previous two dispatches here and here.   Yekaterinburg is not a pretty place. I can’t really give an adequate description of the city’s homeliness, but suffice it to say that among Russia’s larger municipalities (which are not the best-looking cities … Continue reading Life in the Platzkart: Dispatches from the Kremlin