This is the eleventh in a series about train and bicycle rides from Switzerland to Belarus, in those carefree days before pandemic lockdowns. To get to Napoleon’s Berezina Crossing, I took the train for an hour from Minsk to Borisov (actually a sleeper bound for Murmansk took me one stop; my seat was an open More

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