Remarkable Russia

Something about Russia so enthralls me It seems so faraway, quite a recondite place to be I'm as entranced by her history of Tsars and Czars as much as I am by her samovars. Her famed onion-shaped patterned multi-coloured domes and where the spirit of communism still roams? A country neither Western nor Eastern perhaps kind of Eurasian Perhaps her popularity is in her insularity. Talking of Russia worldwide famous names come to mind: The names and times of Gorbachev and Lenin political reigns of Stalin and Yeltsin and first man in space Soviet Yuri Gagarin. First woman in space too, Russian Valentina Terekshova Then in field of literature Leo Tolstoy appears universal The red square there famous too for the Kremlin, found in Russia, the largest country in the world with names of U.S.S.R or Soviet Union It shows vast on any map of the world unfurled