Once Prometheus stole fire from Olympus and Zeus punished him chained to a rock in Scythia, at the end of the earth. "The end of the earth" was present Sochi, Prometheus was chained to the Eagle Rock in their neighborhoods. Ancient Greek hero, fortunately, was the last one who "ride" in Sochi brought nothing but trouble. For the remaining pilgrims, until the present day, this place is small with nothing comparable in its appeal. And a special delight - Sochi winter ...
"The great mass of the public prefer to go abroad, living there tens of millions of rubles and thus enriching thence resorts ... And our more gifted nature resorts wither".
(From speech delivered at the Congress leaders Black Sea coast in St. Petersburg).
winter to go to the mountains - in summer the sea. Boring people, whose heads vtrambovan eternal order of things. At sea, good to go in the winter, I found out, returning to the days of Sochi. Then all this vast sea belongs to me day and night. Prolonged gray film in the morning, velvety and shell during the day and evening, when the bank roam rare vacationers. Something persistently crying gulls. A walk along the shore, men and women, and they have time to meet his eyes and say something like: "Good evening, you do not mind if" .. "
Once on this for more than half a kilometer stretch of coastline, owned tsekovskomu sanatorium "Russia", went to "them". And the people legends about the incredible wonders of recreation of the Soviet elite. On some kind of "rejuvenating" tablets and special procedures on which the restored men's decrepit power of rulers for decades, and not the faded beauty of their wives and girlfriends. It seemed that to get there - it's almost buy a ticket to paradise. But tickets are not sold. Now - 50 to 50: half passes reserves the Office of Presidential Affairs, which today belongs to the "Rus", and half sold a mere mortal. You can ponostalgirovat of his youthful dreams of settling down in the rooms of the old buildings, most of those, where up to 90-rested members of the Politburo and their guests - the crown prince and the Foreign Policy Number 1. With the four-meter ceilings, moldings, draperies of velvet and silk. Go for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the Hall of Columns, where you will serve girls in white tattooed. Meet the powerful. At the local courts have played Boris Yeltsin, Yuri Luzhkov, Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Literally around the corner, at Bocharov Creek, relaxing the current president.
And you can spend time without nostalgia. Numbers of new housing, "Russia" was awarded four stars. All modern, chrome-plated, brilliant. One word - high-tech. Special elevators are bused directly to the beach (if they just too lazy to go down to the sea on a luxurious white staircase, decorated with antique sculptures, past the fountains with ozonated water and the century-old trees). You can live quite independently. In the villa with several bedrooms, its swimming pool, fireplace, VIP-beach. And now the "rejuvenating apples." No mythology, it turns out - a solid science. Firstly, the sea air and water (all year round are closed and heated outdoor pools with sea water) and, secondly, 22 acres of ancient park in the resort, where a special crafted trees were brought from all over the world - so that a combination of relaxing and tone, enrich schalo oxygen and preserve a certain age before the next "reception" of the Sochi resort, and thirdly, water treatment, based on local Matsesta sources. This is the main attraction of all resorts in Sochi coast. Then, because of what experts donate vacation to world-famous, upscale resorts. Actually, once Brezhnev moved to this place a resort because of Matsesta baths. They are intended primarily for people with problems of the musculoskeletal system. Today, developed exclusive techniques and other problematic "places." For example, wanting to continue life without cellulite and excess weight is placed on a special time capsule, pre-wrapped in a honey and algae by music, ultra-violet and aromatic accompaniment. Y "Rus" is an exclusive technique (one even awarded a government prize), environmental cleaning (ie, pulling toxins from the body), the program "Anti-stress," "Easy legs, spine treatment program, rejuvenating the course. For a completely healthy - just swimming pool, sauna, Turkish bath, bath with over ten different herbs and variations of them, underwater massage and everything else.
Do not know what happens to people who spend a week or two here. With me for two days stay in the "Rus", there was a complete shutdown of Moscow life and its rhythm: somewhere in Moscow, business, traffic jams and deadlines. They are terribly far ...

Eugene Kvitko