Richard Wilson and Constantin von Hoffmeister talk about Wilson’s experience as an American actor in the Russian film industry, life in Russia vs life in the West, Russian peasant culture, why Moscow is safer than cities in the West, ethnic Russians as an imperial people, the connection between Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky, pagan elements in Russian Orthodoxy, how Orthodoxy is related to Buddhism, machete danger in Nairobi, the short stories of Anton Chekhov, and other topics.