Five-and-a-half years ago, a lawyer in Moscow decided to leave his legal career behind and live in a hut in a forest.

The right entrance to his underground home looks like a hobbit door, so people started to call him the Hobbit. However, Yuri Alexeyev insists that he is more like a character from Alice in Wonderland and he even has a white rabbit.

The former lawyer has joined the BookCrossing movement, which is the practice of leaving a book in a public place so others can pick it up and read it, and they do likewise. So far, Yuri registered around 4,500 books. He also gives lectures on Chekhov¡¯s masterpiece The Cherry Orchard in his hut, and he runs his own YouTube channel.

Difficult words: former (-ex), likewise (the same thing).