More than just a travelogue, Travels in Siberia is also an account of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union and a personal reflection on the all-around amazingness of Russia, a country that still somehow manages to be funny. The Washington Post - Alan Cooperman Frazier…took five trips to Siberia and five or six more to western Russia between 1993 and 2009, and he has combined his stories into a rambling travelogue that is entertaining, illuminating and just slightly, charmingly off the deep end in its infatuation with everything about Russia, good and bad.