Philip Shishkin
Former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, author, due-diligence consultant and geopolitical analyst
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Sascha the Tennis Champ and Jacob the Jeweler
NOTE: A few days ago, I published a reported true-crime story here about an antique pocket watch from 19th-century France. So watchmaking has been on my mind. But I promise this is not going to become a Substack dedicated to horology...
The mystery of an antique Breguet
Update (June 27 , 2026): the story below includes important new information toward the end.
Note on sources: This is a work of journalism. All quotations and scenes are drawn from historical documents, books, contemporaneous news ac...
The Misunderstood Michelangelo of Crimea
NOTE: In 2014, I went to Ukraine for The Wall Street Journal to cover Russia’s annexation of Crimea and later the opening rounds of the ongoing Russian invasion. A few days after the Russians grabbed the peninsula, I went for a walk...
Total War
OLD Prussian generals are back.
Karl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century military strategist, distilled the idea of “absolute war”—the notion that when you fight a war, you need to strike the enemy decisively to force a surrender. Half a cen...
Episode 7
Previously in this series:
Series introduction
Episode 1: Zurab and George
Episode 2: Christian and Latifa
Episode 3: Zack
Episode 4: Matthew
Episode 5: Ahmed
Episode 6: Ulugbek
“GOOD luck!” the pilot said, after the p...
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