Ivanovo (Иваново)

[Stravinsky]

David,

Your reports are always interesting. But how do you do it--keeping track of all these women? Girls from Mamba, girls from language class, private introductions, girls in other towns.

Do you need some help?

Can you tell us what other provincial cities you visited over the weekend?

[DavidVanSchuma]

So the end of the week draws to a conclusion. Unfortunately not so successful in the 'bedding Russian women' area.

Following on from the 'being set-up' story. Friday evening I was but not with the red head but a different girl. She was exactly what I was wanting, smoking hot. She was in a tight dress, high heels and a tanned long brown haired beauty. Also had a very nice friendly attitude, beautiful smile and happy-go-lucky type. I didn't suffer any of the problems which I had in the past about the stand-offish attitude of Mamba girls. Even though I didn't take her home I still attempted a kiss on the first date but she was surprised. She didn't even think I was interested in her. LMAO. Chatting to her later by sms and a little bit of sweet talking text has made her very very keen for a second date and she knows the score. Anyway conversation took a funny topic, this girl lived for 2 years in Italy, in Rimini. When I asked her what she did in Rimini, like, work etc. She obviously hadn't completely thought this through and couldn't give a better answer than was not working but relaxing. Now, I know Rimini, the summer night club destination of Italy. So, do I honestly believe that a Russian girl from Ivanovo was 'relaxing' for 2 years in Italy? My god I am not that naive. What are the possibilities, working as stripper or go-go dancer (believable with that body) , hooker (seemed too naive for this) , had an Italian sugar daddy. Final is my most suspected and I think when he was tired of her after 2 years sent her packing back to Russia. So this is a new one for me to pursue this week.

Saturday I followed up on my 2nd date prospects from the hottie from another provincial city. I took the bus early to meet her and she drove me to visit another town. Quite a nice day with another smoking hot Russian girl. She was very appreciative of my photography skills. After my photoshop tweaking I'm sure she will use these as pro-shots to land her next guy once I run on back home. Anyway, nothing much eventuated unfortunately. I couldn't even get a kiss out of her and staying the night with me was completely out of the question. She is simply a little conservative and considers kissing on the 2nd date too fast. So this is the big question I ask myself, do I bother going back to this town on a weekend to pursue this girl, or do I cut my losses and pursue something easier? I'm leaning towards the latter. Shame really as she had such a petite little waist and nice arse I would have loved a nice session with her.

Sunday back in Ivanovo, hit up a date with one of the last girls I was communicating with via Mamba. Case of photos not telling the true story. Very average girl. A few weeks back I would have still tried for a kiss but I simply couldn't allow it. After this date I tried to line up either of 2 other girls but both busy.

Prospects for the week are a very keen smoking hot brunette, still have one mamba hottie to schedule me a second date. These 2 should keep me busy enough for now.

[DavidVanSchuma]

so i've decided to get rid of mamba. it was beginning to get on my nerves. it seemed i was really scraping the bottom of the barrel of meritocracy. having to basically beg for attention for very average and not well educated women is not my thing, and the conversational skills of these women are terrible as they are generally the most desperate, and have basically no experience with men. e. g. meeting a 27 year old who has had 1 or 2 relationships that never last more than 3 months really has no idea what expect.

i did a small experiment to see what things are like for a girl joining the site. i made a fake profile. they are immediately placed to position number 1 in the city. having a fairly empty profile except for a few attractive pictures within 10 minutes i had 30+ messages and profile views. all saying privet beautiful blah blah blah. anyway they type the funniest poorly romantic poetic shit i have ever read. poor desperate bastards.

i cut and run with the numbers of the few pretty and intelligent ones i got and will stay in contact with them via other means.

while it was good for an introduction and useful in getting to know this city i feel like it is not my battle ground. while i am a modest guy, the reality is that if i'm 'playing' the role of the handsome, wealthy, foreigner looking for a potential russian wife, the women should be basically queuing up to date me. and i should not be settling for any woman over 25 years of age that is not very well educated and less than 8. 5/10.

this change in attitude was brought on by pursuing other avenues, being adventurous, getting myself out there to make friends with women. it is the other opportunities i was talking about with the married russian woman who could potentially set me up with a friend. this woman is absolutely breathtaking, medical graduate, and more. it didn't take much work to incorporate into the conversation, perhaps i was looking to meet a girl here in russia. immediately she suggested matching me with any of her single friends. happy days. even something i never expected from a woman was the question, well what do you want? e. g. blonde hair, etc. how novel. she suggested a friend who is very beautiful with red hair. i've never dated a red head before so i'm open to this for experience especially if she is a beauty. i guess this could go 2 ways, she picks me the least beautiful of her friends who would have the hardest time in russia and hopes to match the girl up with the unsuspecting foreigner. or she picks me the most beautiful because she thinks i deserve the best. will discover in the coming days.

photos from around the city. i don't have any of the general girls of the city. if you guys are familiar with beautiful women in pieter or moscow just imagine this here. they are the same. i don't think i will post photos of the girls i've been dating here as i already consider what i'm doing rather unethical and posting their photos would be crossing the line for me.

another place to meet beautiful women. after language schools i ventured into a different arena. where else to beautiful women work? cosmetic stores and beauty shops. just make an excuse of looking for some particular product, try to see if they speak english but if not have google translate open with the translation on the phone. pick a difficult to find product, the first one i thought of is difficult to find in russia and i walk out empty handed luckily and i'm not having to buy heaps of shit. i only tried this twice but i will try to at every opportunity in the future to see if i hit it lucky.

[Stravinsky]

Ivanovo is really a wonderful place

Well, that's a revelation I never expected to hear from anyone in this forum! Good for you David, it seems you have reached a whole new dimension of mongering in Russia.

BTW -- Maybe you could post some of the pix you are taking with that DSLR of yours. It doesn't have to be too revealing, maybe some of the stall girls at Silver City?

[DavidVanSchuma]

there is no superstition / tradition among russians that men and women must eat the exact same meal.

i imagine it's some kind of attempt by the woman you are with at bonding with you, by eating the same meal. so, in a sense, you should be flattered by this behavior. she is demonstrating the respect and esteem she has for you. i mean, after all, once you are married you will be eating the same meal at home every night, right? .

i'm also sure that this is strictly provincial behavior. it's kind of touching, actually. while it may be annoying, you should consider it an honor. a moskvichka wouldn't give a damn what you are having for dinner, unless it's beluga, and you're not sharing.

i found it a little strange at first but it is endearing and not annoying. i knew this would never ever happen with a moskvichka! ivanovo is really a wonderful place where the girl assumes you have money and it is definitely not something which needs to be shown off to them in forms of expensive dates or food (exception of a nice car of you have one and wearing nice threads). summer time they are flattered with a free walk in the park and maybe a pot of tea, having a decent dslr camera and knowing how to take pretty pictures of them really does work a treat. if there is anything i have noticed about russian women is that they love posing for photos.

so anyway the week continues. girl from dinner on friday night cancelled on me for 2nd date last night saying she was sick. she seemed quite keen but maybe had a change of mind or actually was feeling sick. this left me only to take a walk around town to see what is happening. honestly it isn't such an easy place to simply approach women unless you speak russian. took a walk around the silver city shopping mall and there are small stalls rep001tered around the floor with sometimes a very pretty girl working in them. these places are the most likely to notice the girl checking you out and probably don't need too much reason to walk up and start a conversation as they are sitting or standing right there and one doesn't need to actually walk into a shop. much harder if they don't speak any english. it is quite important to take notice of the right hand ring finger, here in eastern europe this is the one for marriage as i'm sure you guys know, but in the west it is the left hand. this is quite a good sign to whether the dev is available or not.

also arranged a meeting with the language school receptionist for this evening. will see what comes of this and should be an interesting as i know she is married but i'm confident she would have some amazingly beautiful and available friends which i need to play the game and let her maternal instinct take over of looking after the foreign man and finding him a beautiful russian wife.

[DavidVanSchuma]

G.

You were on a schedule? In Ivanovo? Puh-leez!

I have a suspicion we are both mature enough to know that life is far too short to miss an opportunity to be kidnapped by a fine local MILF. .

I actually think that this is one of the better situations for no-strings-attached sex I have experienced. A woman with desires but responsibilities and happy just for some attention from a decent foreign man without everyone knowing in the small town what she is up to with local men.

[Stravinsky]

It is some sort of Russian superstition for women and is meant to mean something?

There is no superstition/tradition among Russians that men and women must eat the exact same meal.

I imagine it's some kind of attempt by the woman you are with at bonding with you, by eating the same meal. So, in a sense, you should be flattered by this behavior. She is demonstrating the respect and esteem she has for you. I mean, after all, once you are married you will be eating the same meal at home every night, right?

I'm also sure that this is strictly provincial behavior. It's kind of touching, actually. While it may be annoying, you should consider it an honor. A Moskvichka wouldn't give a damn what you are having for dinner, unless it's Beluga, and you're not sharing.

[DavidVanSchuma]

The women always seem to order exactly the same meal as I am ordering. This has happened at almost every single meal, simply not a coincidence. It is some sort of Russian superstition for women and is meant to mean something? Even to the extent I said I wanted only a salad because I wasn't hungry the girl still orders both of us a salmon steak as to ensure that we eat the identical meal.

You guys had an experience with this?

[Gergiev]

So I will try to elaborate a little more with some responses but what I've written is rather a summary and a short one at that of the adventures. I will follow this post with some more info.

David, compliments to you on a great series of reports.

Your attitude is to be admired as you plunged right in there despite having only a modicum of language and knowledge to begin with.

Provincial Russia ain't easy but you've just rolled up your sleeves and given it a right go.

Молодец!

[Stravinsky]

I'm sure you other guys here know this but women get harassed by men on mamba to a rather extreme amount for sex and if the encounter is with a rather normal Russian girl she is immediately on the defensive.

A bit of an uncomfortable starting as she was telling me all I need to know about how sceptical the women are of mamba and she was very unsure of meeting me at all and simply didn't trust me.

So, it sounds like mamba can be a good way to meet women, but there is a bit of a hurdle to overcome, at least in the provinces.

Sounds as if there is no shortage of beautiful, available women in Ivanovo, in any event.

Other guys have reported being successful meeting women in language school in Moscow. Would be interesting to know how that works out in the provinces.

[DavidVanSchuma]

So things came to an end with girl #2. 2 weeks of fucking each other exhausted every 2nd night was great but her life became complicated and couldn't see so much of me. I'm not complaining. Saw her for the last time on the Wednesday night. Needed a well deserved rest Thursday night.

I needed to line up some girls for the Friday night. I became much more selective via mamba. Browse for the ones I found the most attractive and sent my usual copy / paste, hook, line and sinker.

I had a few good responses and had a definite date for dinner confirmed with one hottie. Another exceptionally hot girl invited me to join her for drinks later on that night but she didn't come back online so I sent my number and hoped she would send me a text with details so we could meet up.

Starting with dinner, met this girl who I would give a 8. 5-9/10. Simply amazing body, nice large tits without being excessive, slim figure, amazing legs and arse, beautiful face. Was a rather straight forward dinner, a little bit of flirting, touched her hair, kissed her on the cheek. Getting close together to use the Rus-Eng dictionary on my phone. In my current experience so far it's not good to go too strong too fast but just a little bit to make sure she knows exactly what your interested in but not too much that she needs to back you off. I'm sure you other guys here know this but women get harassed by men on mamba to a rather extreme amount for sex and if the encounter is with a rather normal Russian girl she is immediately on the defensive. Place this with her communicating in a second language it's important to place her at ease and be relaxed. I can't believe all these inconsiderate Russian men harassing these girls so far that they think all men on this site want is sex. It's ruining my plan to simply have sex. Honestly I now have no expectation of fucking on first date, but if not some kissing or more on the 3rd it is not worth following further. This is why I need to have a few girls running at the same time because they come as fast as the go.

So the girl had to leave the restaurant at 22:00 because of some responsibility to her sister. I wasn't complaining too much because this gave me still some hours to have some adventure. Gave her a kiss goodnight and saw her to her taxi. This was in the bag for the 2nd and 3rd dates because she was very warm and receptive but had some standards of not doing thing with a complete stranger on the first date. To be pursued.

Made my way from the restaurant down to what there is of a town centre and wanted to inspect a club. Called something like Club Rocco at square pushkin, upstairs at the right of the drama theatre. Seemed to not be open yet and due to it being the military holiday there was a large amount of Russian men drunk and jumping through the fountain, carrying each other and generally being entertaining. Sat and watched this for a few minutes while I was thinking about walking back up the hill to another bar, Dudkibar. I was also planning to check this place out later into the evening as it has been mentioned by some of the girls I have seen.

While sitting I get a text on my phone. It was the other hottie who wanted me to meet her for drinks. She was at a restaurant just across the street and couldn't have been better timing. Make my way to the restaurant and she finds me at the bar. Now this woman is absolutely perfect. 9.5/10 only because I don't believe in 10/10 until the experience in bed. But absolutely stunning beauty visage, perfect figure, tits round and ample, tall, slim with amazing legs and arse. I was just thinking what have I got myself here this must be the night of my life. I continued the night with her and while she openly liked me very much she was also not one to kiss, fuck on first encounter. This is not so much as I don't always like getting straight into it from the noisy bar. I like to be very sensual with women in romantic settings and spend my time pleasuring them. I honestly didn't expect I would get attention from her over mamba because she has posted pictures which look like actual modelling shots. Not just the typical pro-images but they were more. I asked her if she actually ever modeled and she told me she was invited to model but would have to starve herself to become so skinny she would consider it too ugly. Good thing because she had the perfect balanced body of being slim but not too skinny.

Anyway she was really into me but didn't get the feeling for fucking so soon. I place her into the class which I place most of the girls I meet here. They are looking for husbands. Sure they would like to have some good sex but I fit the bill for husband material and likely they don't want to mess this potential up. They could get any of the local flatheads to give them a quick fuck. Unfortunately she is away from Ivanovo for 2 weeks and I hope to pursue this one when she gets back.

For Saturday I had already lined up my entertainment for my provincial adventure for the weekend. Hungover but made it early to the bus station and get to the other town. Girl #1 here was planned to be my tour guide. She was pretty, beautiful blue eyes, face and smile with enormous tits but she was just a little too large in the arse for me. 7.5/10. Shame really because if I didn't have the 2 hotties attention the previous night I would have probably pursued this more and it was simply too easy if I wanted to. She was exceptionally nice and showed me the entire city. I had another girl lined up for the evening so made my excuses of tired, etc and escaped for the evening. She still planned to spend Sunday with me so this was ok.

Dinner with girl #2, now I'm just not getting so surprised anymore. Again amazing, long-dark haired beauty with blue eyes and very petite. Some of the most amazing slim legs, arse and tight body I have had the joy of walking around with. A bit of an uncomfortable starting as she was telling me all I need to know about how sceptical the women are of mamba and she was very unsure of meeting me at all and simply didn't trust me. Fortunately intelligent worldy conversation placed her quite at ease and she was really liking me and trusting me. Once again when a girl is saying how much she hates all the local flatheads for just using mamba to try to get sex it makes it very difficult to actually go and also do this. Took her for a nice walk around town talking and getting to know each other and decided to become a bit more versatile and flexible and instead of asking her to my hotel that night I decided to dodge this possible failure and burning the bridge, invite her to travel with me next weekend to another city to visit. This was taken very very well as she is looking for a nice guy to have a good time with. The matter of hotel room etc I will be detailing tomorrow with her. This one I hope will be a firecracker in bed and I would be very disappointed if she is too cold for fucking within this short period of time. Still very easy to turn the game on while traveling and I will just try to sneak in some kisses while being tourists. See what comes of it.

Arrived back into Ivanovo Sunday afternoon after being a tourist with the first girl but still wasn't feeling the romance or interest with her. I tried to line up the girl from Friday night to join me for tea but she was busy. I have things to organise anyway and will pursue some more fun tomorrow night. Probably be giving the language school receptionist a call if nothing else kicks up.

[DavidVanSchuma]

So things came to an end with girl #2. 2 weeks of fucking each other exhausted every 2nd night was great but her life became complicated and couldn't see so much of me. I'm not complaining. Saw her for the last time on the Wednesday night. Needed a well deserved rest Thursday night.

I needed to line up some girls for the Friday night. I became much more selective via mamba. Browse for the ones I found the most attractive and sent my usual copy / paste, hook, line and sinker.

I had a few good responses and had a definite date for dinner confirmed with one hottie. Another exceptionally hot girl invited me to join her for drinks later on that night but she didn't come back online so I sent my number and hoped she would send me a text with details so we could meet up.

Starting with dinner, met this girl who I would give a 8. 5-9/10. Simply amazing body, nice large tits without being excessive, slim figure, amazing legs and arse, beautiful face. Was a rather straight forward dinner, a little bit of flirting, touched her hair, kissed her on the cheek. Getting close together to use the Rus-Eng dictionary on my phone. In my current experience so far it's not good to go too strong too fast but just a little bit to make sure she knows exactly what your interested in but not too much that she needs to back you off. I'm sure you other guys here know this but women get harassed by men on mamba to a rather extreme amount for sex and if the encounter is with a rather normal Russian girl she is immediately on the defensive. Place this with her communicating in a second language it's important to place her at ease and be relaxed. I can't believe all these inconsiderate Russian men harassing these girls so far that they think all men on this site want is sex. It's ruining my plan to simply have sex. Honestly I now have no expectation of fucking on first date, but if not some kissing or more on the 3rd it is not worth following further. This is why I need to have a few girls running at the same time because they come as fast as the go.

So the girl had to leave the restaurant at 22:00 because of some responsibility to her sister. I wasn't complaining too much because this gave me still some hours to have some adventure. Gave her a kiss goodnight and saw her to her taxi. This was in the bag for the 2nd and 3rd dates because she was very warm and receptive but had some standards of not doing thing with a complete stranger on the first date. To be pursued.

Made my way from the restaurant down to what there is of a town centre and wanted to inspect a club. Called something like Club Rocco at square pushkin, upstairs at the right of the drama theatre. Seemed to not be open yet and due to it being the military holiday there was a large amount of Russian men drunk and jumping through the fountain, carrying each other and generally being entertaining. Sat and watched this for a few minutes while I was thinking about walking back up the hill to another bar, Dudkibar. I was also planning to check this place out later into the evening as it has been mentioned by some of the girls I have seen.

While sitting I get a text on my phone. It was the other hottie who wanted me to meet her for drinks. She was at a restaurant just across the street and couldn't have been better timing. Make my way to the restaurant and she finds me at the bar. Now this woman is absolutely perfect. 9.5/10 only because I don't believe in 10/10 until the experience in bed. But absolutely stunning beauty visage, perfect figure, tits round and ample, tall, slim with amazing legs and arse. I was just thinking what have I got myself here this must be the night of my life. I continued the night with her and while she openly liked me very much she was also not one to kiss, fuck on first encounter. This is not so much as I don't always like getting straight into it from the noisy bar. I like to be very sensual with women in romantic settings and spend my time pleasuring them. I honestly didn't expect I would get attention from her over mamba because she has posted pictures which look like actual modelling shots. Not just the typical pro-images but they were more. I asked her if she actually ever modeled and she told me she was invited to model but would have to starve herself to become so skinny she would consider it too ugly. Good thing because she had the perfect balanced body of being slim but not too skinny.

Anyway she was really into me but didn't get the feeling for fucking so soon. I place her into the class which I place most of the girls I meet here. They are looking for husbands. Sure they would like to have some good sex but I fit the bill for husband material and likely they don't want to mess this potential up. They could get any of the local flatheads to give them a quick fuck. Unfortunately she is away from Ivanovo for 2 weeks and I hope to pursue this one when she gets back.

For Saturday I had already lined up my entertainment for my provincial adventure for the weekend. Hungover but made it early to the bus station and get to the other town. Girl #1 here was planned to be my tour guide. She was pretty, beautiful blue eyes, face and smile with enormous tits but she was just a little too large in the arse for me. 7.5/10. Shame really because if I didn't have the 2 hotties attention the previous night I would have probably pursued this more and it was simply too easy if I wanted to. She was exceptionally nice and showed me the entire city. I had another girl lined up for the evening so made my excuses of tired, etc and escaped for the evening. She still planned to spend Sunday with me so this was ok.

Dinner with girl #2, now I'm just not getting so surprised anymore. Again amazing, long-dark haired beauty with blue eyes and very petite. Some of the most amazing slim legs, arse and tight body I have had the joy of walking around with. A bit of an uncomfortable starting as she was telling me all I need to know about how sceptical the women are of mamba and she was very unsure of meeting me at all and simply didn't trust me. Fortunately intelligent worldy conversation placed her quite at ease and she was really liking me and trusting me. Once again when a girl is saying how much she hates all the local flatheads for just using mamba to try to get sex it makes it very difficult to actually go and also do this. Took her for a nice walk around town talking and getting to know each other and decided to become a bit more versatile and flexible and instead of asking her to my hotel that night I decided to dodge this possible failure and burning the bridge, invite her to travel with me next weekend to another city to visit. This was taken very very well as she is looking for a nice guy to have a good time with. The matter of hotel room etc I will be detailing tomorrow with her. This one I hope will be a firecracker in bed and I would be very disappointed if she is too cold for fucking within this short period of time. Still very easy to turn the game on while traveling and I will just try to sneak in some kisses while being tourists. See what comes of it.

Arrived back into Ivanovo Sunday afternoon after being a tourist with the first girl but still wasn't feeling the romance or interest with her. I tried to line up the girl from Friday night to join me for tea but she was busy. I have things to organise anyway and will pursue some more fun tomorrow night. Probably be giving the language school receptionist a call if nothing else kicks up.

[DavidVanSchuma]

That's the problem with small towns, everyone knows your business.

Thanks for the report on Ivanovo, it's always good to have first-hand impressions of the provinces, and we don't get a lot of those.

It seems you use Mamba almost exclusively to connect with women. I can't help but wonder if that is a benefit, or a limitation? In a city like Ivanovo, with so many possibilities just walking around on the street, is it possible that direct contact with women you meet might be more productive?

That's the question that jumped off the page for me, as well.

But if I understand DvS, it doesn't seem to be what he's about.

Maybe he's a trifle inhibited by a lack of Russian but to invert a paraphrase. "if you can't make it there, you won't make it anywhere".

So I will try to elaborate a little more with some responses but what I've written is rather a summary and a short one at that of the adventures. I will follow this post with some more info.

As there was no information here about Ivanovo, and very little information in general from a touristic perspective, I have been taking my time and being a little careful to where and when I get about and learning about the city from the girls I've been dating. Ivanovo is not such an easy city where night clubs just stand out or there is a centre of town. I'm not staying in a hotel, rather my own apartment which means I can't hit on the receptionist or ask advice from hotel staff. I also have to work a normal job so can't stroll around hitting on women all day long. I work with mostly women and while some of them are amazing I have decided not to cross this line and let common sense prevail due to reasons I won't state here.

Mamba has not been my exclusive avenue but has kept me by far busy enough so far not to bother too much pestering women walking on the street, shopping centre or working in shops though it's not that I haven't done this also. I can manage to keep a few conversations going on mamba with girls I'm lining up for dates during the day juggling my work. It is both an advantage and if you can use it with some other ways can be very good to supplement finding girls to date.

I'm interested exclusively in dating many beautiful women and not interested here in P4P. It has been ok so far because why pay for something which is possible to get for free* I fucked the first hot girl 5. 6 times over 3 encounters and lost any sense of count with the 2nd one who kept me busy every 2nd night for 2 weeks. 1st girl most interesting experience in my life. 2nd girl best sex of my life. Hence why pay.

A trifle inhibited by lack of Russian is probably a good judgement. I'm no long termer maybe like you guys and had little experience with Russia but I was also no newbie walking around in a state of shock. I have had Russian exposure and could read Cyrillic, know Russian phrases, words and can function. Language is developing still. It is enough to really impress a Russian girl without having a complete conversation in Russian.

With my known weakness of Russian language where did I figure the most logical place to meet some English speaking girls (except trawling mamba) , well English language schools and there are more than dozens. I have tried this out once so far and going in asking the receptionist for information about Russian classes is a great guise. First attempt I was greeted by one of the most beautiful women I have seen in my life. Unfortunately she was married but we exchanged numbers and she said she would call me about discussing Russian learning over a drink away from the language school. I think this was a mis-communication and I was supposed to call her but I was very busy with work and other girls I didn't pursue. I will pursue this week to see what I can learn from this.

Also, I've become much much more fussy with standards. I think I was selling myself a little short before settling in here. I've upped the standards and things are going very nicely still.

[Stravinsky]

Now if only Bez had kept his appointment.

Understood, honor among mongers is paramount.

[Gergiev]

G.

You were on a schedule? In Ivanovo? Puh-leez!

I have a suspicion we are both mature enough to know that life is far too short to miss an opportunity to be kidnapped by a fine local MILF. .

Indeed, I have no real defence against your clear and concise reasoning, Strav.

To compound my offence, I also declined the offer of an all-day hotel encounter with my conquest of the previous night, back in Suzdal.

I'm inclined to be a little neurotic on matters like this.

I had planned to be in Kostroma by a certain date and that was that.

Now if only Bez had kept his appointment...