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--Aaron

Day 4 - More on Maxim

June 3, 2001
11:22pm
Hotel Pulvoskaya, St. Petersburg


Another interesting day in Russia has come and gone. It wasn't as long as I expected it would be, either. Probably because I only slept for an hour after I wrote my last update. That was when Timo and Maxim woke up to go down to breakfast. Or Maxim woke up, I should say. Timo hadn't been sleeping well and had continually awakened while I was writing the update. Eventually he just gave up.

So the three of us enjoyed another breakfast buffet here in our hotel. We decided after that to visit the local supermarket to pick up some bottled water, and a gin and tonic for our sailor boy coming by. He had predicted he would be nervous and had requested we have a drink waiting for him. Fair enough request, even if I generally prefer relaxing models through more sexual methods. We asked Maxim if Russian supermarkets still have the poor selection / long lines that were common under the Soviet era, but he dismissed our concerns. Some of that may because he is only 24 years old. He may not remember those lines at their worst; I'm not certain.

From there we went out to run a few errands. I changed a number of my 500 rouble notes (about $16) into 100's, as the 500s are hard to spend in St. Pete. Maxim tells me that the economy here is more sluggish, so people and stores tend to have less money and less change. We also dropped off a roll of Maxim's film to be developed, as it has pictures of a prospective model in Moscow on it.

We came back to the room to wait for our 1pm guest, the navel cadet, Eugeney. After meeting him I learned his nickname is Zhenya (henceforth what I will call him). Eugeney turned out not to be how his name is spelled anyway, I was just roughly approximately it. There are 36 letters in the Russian alphabet, so it is often difficult to describe the exact sounds of a Russian word in English.

True to form of a cadet, Zhenya showed up exactly on time. He was upbeat and relaxed about filming our scene together, but did down his gin and tonic fairly quickly. The buzz settled in fairly quickly. I wasn't able to notice any difference, but Timo assured me that he had mellowed.

Once the business formalities were out of the way, Zhenya and I climbed on the bed and began the scene. It turns out he is very affectionate, and he was really into kissing me. I mean REALLY REALLY REALLY into kissing me. Fun stuff! I have noticed that kissing doesn't always hold the audience's interest in a video though, so I try to balance it with other things. No matter what fun things we did though, Zhenya always managed to get back up to my lips though. A rather amusing and enjoyable predicament, I must say.

Eventually Timo solved our problem by diving into the scene and eating out Zhenya's ass. Timo alternately licked his butt and sucked his dick, making fun little comments about how he likes uncut dick the entire time. I didn't say a lot during all of this. My lips were pretty well cemented to Zhenya's. We decided to keep it as an oral scene, and eventually were ready for the cumshots. Zhenya played with my balls as I jacked off. He then sat on Timo's face causing Timo to shoot a load half the size of Lake Michigan.

Unfortunately, in the end Zhenya wasn't able to cum. I'm not sure quite why - he explained it to Maxim, but it seemed to lose something in translation. According to Maxim, Zhenya had only been with two guys before. Or was it cum with two guys before? I wasn't sure. Anyway, Zhenya didn't think he'd be able to get off. We took a break for a while and then filmed a bit more. He was really close to cumming, but wasn't quite able to do it. Maxim was, though! He had been beating off so he stepped in and shot a load all over Zhenya's crotch. That part came out on camera, too. Not sure if it'll be on the final video release. Maxim is still being antsy about being on film, and I can't release that bit of footage without him signing a release. It doesn't have his face anyway, so its no big deal. Nice load though.

We made arrangements for Zhenya to come back tomorrow night to finish his cumshot, and then he departed. Hopefully he'll be back. We'll see! He is supposed to call tomorrow around 1pm to set up a time. He stands to make another $50 if he can give us the cumshot, so it's worth his while to do so. $50 is half a month's salary for him, after all. Not bad for what could be five minutes of work.

Eventually there was a knock at the door. It was Roma, the 19 year-old who was supposed to meet us at Club 69 the first night. He was cute, but after a few minutes I realized I didn't particularly like his attitude. Speaking through Maxim as a translator, he was cold and aloof. Cute though. He had a soft body but I liked the way he looked. He was one of the various Russian ethnicities, although he avoided talking about his parentage when asked.

As I had promised Timo last night, after my fourth scene I would make filming his first a priority. So we showed a picture to Roma of a model I had found named Sergey. If Roma liked Sergey and wanted to film with him, we'd have Sergey over and try to film them on a 1-on-1. If Roma didn't care for Sergey, then I'd do a scene with Roma for one of my videos, and we'd try again to come up with a pair of Russians for Timo.

Fortunately, Roma liked Sergey, so we gave him a call. Forty-five minutes later he arrived to film his scene. He was 26 and had a great body, but looked slightly older than his age. He was doable in a pinch for my vids, but was just right for Timo's. So Timo set them up to do their scene together.

Unfortunately, their pairing didn't quite work out. At first they had a great intensity, going back and forth doing things to each other. But when Sergey started to fuck Roma, he went about ten strokes before he said he was going to cum. He pulled out and shot all over Roma. Hot, but awfully quick. How is one supposed to show fucking in a movie if the actor can only do ten strokes?

So Timo had them suck each other in various positions. It worked well, but suddenly Sergey was less into it than he had been before he came. Eventually Roma blew his load, but Timo didn't have all the footage he wanted. He could make a scene out of it, but it wouldn't be the strong scene he had hoped for. And he had blown half his trip's model budget on this scene. A major bummer all around. I think he'll be able to do wonders in the editing process. We'll have to wait and see. Like me, Timo was operating on one hour's sleep. So it's not hard to see how he can get irritated easily.

Watching Roma's scene, I changed my mind about him. True, he's still somewhat aloof, but he had definitely warmed up around Sergey. And after Sergey left, Roma actually began talking to us in English (something we didn't know he could do), and even smiling and making jokes to us. So I invited him to come back the next evening to film a scene. I wasn't sure what time Zhenya would be coming over, so Roma said he would call at 7pm. I told him to tentatively plan on coming by at 8pm. We'll see what happens.

We were all feeling very tired and sleepy from our lack of sleep the night before, but decided to push ourselves. We went out to dinner, where I got my first look at borscht. It's a beet soup and is bright purple in color. I've never seen anything like it before. I didn't get a chance to taste it (since I didn't feel comfortable asking Maxim for a taste), but will endeavor to do so before I leave Russia.

After dinner we walked over to Kat'Kin part. That's some sort of abbreviated name or nick name for Catherine the Great, whose statue occupies the center of the park. About a block away we realized we were in major hustler territory. One appeared to be a naval sailor hustling in full uniform, a concept completely unthinkable in the United States. This is a different culture though, and he was loitering around and certainly making a lot of eye contact. He was extremely hot in his uniform, but we were more looking to explore rather than to arrange to film anything. We had a case of sexual and physical exhaustion, and wanted to recruit for following nights rather than film that evening. So we went into the park.

The park itself was disappointing. Well, sort of. It was a nice place and had lots of people walking around. Therein lies the problem - it became difficult to tell who was gay and who wasn't. I suspect that as it got dark it would become considerably more evident, but we didn't want to wait that long. It's midnight right now as I write this and it still isn't completely dark.

So we hung out for a while talking, and then Maxim ran into a few friends. After talking to them for a few minutes, he told us that his friends can put us in touch with the owner of an escort agency who specializes in military boys. The friends asked 500 roubles ($16) to do so. The escort agency's price was 700 roubles ($23) per soldier. Certainly a lot cheaper than the $350/hr I'm used to charging! Of course I speak English, which is something the military boys would almost certainly not be able to do.

I agreed that their request was fair, and told them I would be happy to pay when I hired a guy for the first time. They agreed, and we all set out in search of a friend of theirs who has the phone number of the owner of the agency. Along the way hey told me that the agency owner has a book of the boys that work for him. He is happy to meet someone early in the day to help them pick out who they would like, and then he can have them meet the client a couple of hours later.

Along the way to the friend, Maxim suggested a strategy for us. He thought we should keep quiet about the two of us being American until a price was set. And we shouldn't mention that we were filming a video until a couple of the soldiers come by. He was sure our offer would be enough money to get them to do a video, and if they didn't we'd at least be able to have good sex for an hour. I laughed at his suggestion, but didn't argue. It was premature since we hadn't found the owner with the book yet, and I realized Maxim was up to his old tricks again. He didn't want to get near our camera, but loved playing behind it. The opportunity to get a few hot soldier boys appealed to him immensely. If we get a video scene out of it, that was fine with him. He figured he'd get sex either way.

I wanted to pull Timo aside at this point to have a talk. Maxim's agenda was rapidly beginning to interfere with ours. Already he had intervened in two scenes in an inconvienent fashion, and he was rapidly heading towards a third. That wasn't what I was paying him for. I didn't want to treat him like a servant, but at the same time I was here on a mission. A mission that was costing me thousands of dollars, and the only way I would recoup my investment was through the video scenes that I film. So interfering with the scenes is not acceptable.

I didn't say any of this to Timo though. Timo was fading fast and was totally exhausted, and intelligent conversation was beyond him. And besides, we fairly quickly found the friend with the escort agency owner. They gave him a call and learned that he was unavailable for the evening. He said he would call the next morning to set up an early afternoon appointment. Unsurprisingly, Maxim was quite excited by this prospect.

We left the park and went back to the hotel. I would have liked to stay and recruit models, but it was kind of a waste. We had several prospects for the next day, and Timo needed sleep. I really needed it too, so I might as well get back and get my update written so I can to bed.

Not long after beginning this update, the phone rang. It was a guy that had also failed to meet us earlier in our visit. (Can't remember when!). Since Maxim was going out to the clubs, he made arrangements to meet him out. Why, I'm not certain, since we wanted to film him, not hear how he dances. Fairly soon it became evidence when Maxim suggesed he bring the guy home with him at 5am or so, and we film something then. I pointed out we'd be asleep, so he suggested that they take a nap and then we film mid-morning. I relucantly and perhaps foolishly agreed to this, but strongly suggested he come over during the afternoon insead.

And so as I end this, the score is: Me: 4 scenes done, 8 to go. And hopefully a cumshot scene from Zhenya. Timo: 1 scene done but he's bummed about it, and 1 to go. And Maxim? He's jumped on top of two of our models, and who knows what else he is going to try?

We'll have to wait and see! For tomorrow (ack, today!) June 4th...

- Zhenya will hopefully come over and blow his load.
- Roma may come over in the evening to do a scene with me.
- The 19yo cadet may show up at 5am with Maxim, or may come by later or not at all.
- The "soldier pimp" may call and arrange to show us his book of boys. No idea what'l happen at that point.
- There is a steadily decreasing chance we will hear from Maxim #2, a boy who had wanted to be in my videos. We e-mailed him when he got into town, but he hasn't responded or called us.

Stay tuned to find out what happens!

--Aaron