"Perhaps my ancestor was a Cossack who marched with Suvorov through the Alps. Otherwise, how could there be so much Russian in me?" — jokes the Swiss Benjamin Forster. For 14 years, the foreigner has been living in Pereslavl-Zalessky. With an Orthodox cross on his chest, a bathhouse at 100 degrees, and a UAZ "Bukhanka." Some neighbors still don’t believe he isn’t Russian. His interest in Russia was sparked in Switzerland by Russian friends — children of dissident émigrés. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they returned to Russia, and Benjamin started visiting them... and never wanted to leave. "In Russia, there’s a common table, everyone shares, there’s no difference between 'yours' and 'mine.' I saw this with my Russian friends in Switzerland, and I really liked it." In Pereslavl, he built a house, married a Russian girl, and is raising a son, Savva. In the town, everyone calls the foreign neighbor Veniamin — this is his name after baptism. He is not just Orthodox, but an Old Believer. But without excesses or hardships. Veniamin is into beekeeping, and now his apiary is one of the attractions of the Golden Ring.