A balding, moustachioed man takes a deep breath. Summoning all his strength, he bites the padded mouthpiece and slowly starts to crawl backwards. "With his teeth, he's dragging this colossal ship of more than a hundred tonnes along the Volga", gasps the TV presenter in amazement. "The unbelievable has come true!"

Accompanied by his earnest young translator, Andrei, Belgian strongman Georges Christens is making a grand tour of Russia. His first stop is Moscow, where he's performing at the city's anniversary celebrations. But the dark clouds look like they will overshadow commemorations. However the Mayor has promised a beautiful day. He sends planes to seed the clouds and ensure good weather.

Wherever he goes, Georges is treated like a celebrity. As the crowds are regularly informed, he is a "world famous performer and holds more than 20 world records". But Georges himself is surprisingly bashful about his achievements. "I don't consider myself to be someone extraordinary. It's the result of a lot of training and willpower". He claims his feats are achieved by harnessing "positive energy.... the driving force that's doing all this."

En route to the next show, George and Andrei stop off to meet another world record holder in training - Mascha the Bear. "Thanks to her strength, she will live for 50 years", predicts her owner proudly, gesturing at the grumpy looking beast in a cage. "She's 15 now. Once she's 40, she'll have a wonderful record in the Guinness Book."

But Georges is to busy planning his next world record to spend much time with the bear. "As a child, I wasn't very strong. I wanted to become very strong so I started training," Georges explains. At 19, he won his first world record. He trains his teeth daily by "carrying heavy things from one place to another" and feels compelled to keep beating his own records.

Hearing his achievements, a Russian artist invites him to model for a sculptor. She wants him to pose shirtless but he feels awkward exposing his muscles. Instead, Georges wants to be captured in action. "I could bend an iron bar or pose with a barbell," he suggests. "What's important is that I do something."

Finally, the grand tour draws to an end. But already, Georges is planning his return. "I would definitely like to come back"