‘Greetings From Abkhazia’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.19.07 | 12:00 PM ET
Graeme Wood travels to the seaside resort in the Republic of Georgia for a story in The Smart Set. It was once the playground of Soviet leaders like Stalin. Today, Wood writes, “all Russians know Abkhazia as the balmiest coast in the otherwise frigid ex-Soviet empire—‘a corner of Spain or Sicily,’ wrote one 19th-century explorer, ‘dropped at the foot of Old Man Caucasus.’”
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