Farms: The art of being a Russian farmer
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John Kopiski is a British-born business executive who came to Moscow for a 3-day business trip and ended up staying for more than 20 years. “I arrived here in December 1991. I went to some import-export companies, two bars, a hotel and Old Arbat (a street in central Moscow). And in this brief period I felt that I could start a new life here. Not a new business, a new life.” Mr. Kopiski became the second British citizen to obtain Russian citizenship in 1993. He became an Orthodox shortly after. Soon after he settled in Russia Mr Kopiski decided to shift his career from coal trading to farming. He invested almost all his savings – several million pounds – into a project to rebuild a ruined collective farm near Vladimir, an ancient town located roughly 115 miles south-east of Moscow. “Whenever we had spare money we helped the church, particularly in Vladimir. And just over 10 years ago the abbess of Murom Monastery was tasked with reopening a monastery very close by, in Pokrov. And we suggested that they could use this place as their farm. But when the abbess saw it, she said it was too big for her, but my wife and I liked the place and the life here. So we started farming.”
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Moscow is Only 100 Km away;)
that's pretty far -
you can ask me for tthis job
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he looks like Tolstoy)
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I really liked it.
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he come to russia for russian women. i would like to work farming for free.
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Russia needs 700,000,000 more people to get enough population
you can burrow indian workers slowly slowly .....common -
Russia is a country of security guards, that's so true...
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fantastic
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Very well done, comrade! Excellent interviews, wonderful footage and editing.
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Почему нет русских субтитров? Многим было бы интересно.
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Hey, John, nice to see you do what you do. Welcome home 'cause we are all one.
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I absolutely love your videos ))))
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Very nice man. Very interesting
The art of being a Russian farmer.
Published on Jul 14, 2015
John Kopiski is a British-born business executive who came to Moscow for a 3-day business trip and ended up staying for more than 20 years.
“I arrived here in December 1991. I went to some import-export companies, two bars, a hotel and Old Arbat (a street in central Moscow). And in this brief period I felt that I could start a new life here. Not a new business, a new life.”
Mr. Kopiski became the second British citizen to obtain Russian citizenship in 1993. He became an Orthodox shortly after.
Soon after he settled in Russia Mr Kopiski decided to shift his career from coal trading to farming. He invested almost all his savings – several million pounds – into a project to rebuild a ruined collective farm near Vladimir, an ancient town located roughly 115 miles south-east of Moscow.
“Whenever we had spare money we helped the church, particularly in Vladimir. And just over 10 years ago the abbess of Murom Monastery was tasked with reopening a monastery very close by, in Pokrov. And we suggested that they could use this place as their farm. But when the abbess saw it, she said it was too big for her, but my wife and I liked the place and the life here. So we started farming.”