Letter from Siberia

00:00:55 I'm writing you this letter from a distant land.

00:03:38 When he's not busy making forests, or states, the devil steals peoples' souls...

00:06:15 was that whenever you met a mammoth in the open, it was dead.

00:08:51 on the banks of the great Siberian river: the Lena.

00:11:57 It's 7 a.m. in Irkutsk, midnight in London and 7 p.m. in New York.

00:13:27 the problem is to electrify a whole district

00:16:34 The rationalistic aspect of Siberia

00:19:09 The picture would break off suddenly

00:20:59 but they've nevertheless graduated from the dubious category of 'nomads,'

00:22:44 After a breakfast of red berries

00:25:49 in the joyful spirit of socialist emulation

00:27:08 isn't going to make you understand Siberia.

00:29:10 And now for the Siberian version of Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend:

00:31:43 joined in matrimony to produce the first Yakut.

00:34:19 we might better realize what a victory even the simplest achievements represent:

00:37:23 and that was the picture in the minds of the first conquerors from Muscovy

00:39:32 or rather this cold menagerie.

00:41:27 including the culture parks

00:43:22 But let a buckboard drive by, let the band play a little gold music

00:45:41 ten years after the revolution

00:48:01 before the sport became organized.

00:49:30 than there is gold in the mud they sift.

00:52:17 and drive before me with my whip the cowering snow.

00:55:22 and we felt it was deeply symbolic that the first living creatures...