This is the twenty-first installment in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. By the time I had biked around Livadia Palace and Yalta, ...

The snow-capped Crimean Mountains and the city of Yalta on the north coast of the Black Sea are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 263 miles above.

The snow-capped Crimean Mountains and the city of Yalta on the north coast of the Black Sea are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 263 miles above. […] ...