Around the World is not another opus in the spirit of Jules Verne. This is a light and at the same time very deep prose about traveling with a camera across Russia, in search of that light that allows you to see familiar landscapes and ordinary people in a completely new way. The Smolensk land - the main “heroine” of this book - is revealed in a special perspective and beauty. In some ways, Ermakov’s style is reminiscent of Turgenev’s style, with his quiet and warm breath of nature between the lines, with his delightful manor laziness and the agility of hunting expeditions... Reading Ermakov is a true stylistic pleasure, combined with an enlightenment pleasure (because light is the root of the Enlightenment)!< /p>