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Background: Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Josef STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the Communist period. While some progress has been made on the economic front, recent years have seen a recentralization of power under Vladimir PUTIN and an erosion in nascent democratic institutions. A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia in Chechnya.




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Well, after 26 years i managed to go to Russia. Oh yea....St Petersburg, i always wanted to see this city, with old and new. I always wanted to see what is the feeling of being in Russia, how do the people live there and most of all...some places that i have seen only in pictures. So at the end of November we packed some clothes with us (Me, Mari, Judith, Christina and Vanda) jumped in 2 buses and...final destination mother Russia. As you would expect reaching the Russian border you will be treated with disrespect and you will be body [View Full Entry]

Dannyintheworld - danny M | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 21st 2009 | 169 Views | [diary=461203]

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Still no photos I'm afraid :( once again cannot upload on this computer but I will update as soon as I can. I woke up very late this morning, about 9:30am so I was either very tired or the beer I drank last night knocked me out or it was possibly a combination of both. After heading back to the hostel last night to pick up some more money I headed to that Irish Pub to get some food. It was rammed and I think most of the people in there were German. I sat at the bar writing my journal [View Full Entry]

Kt louise - Katie Needham | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 17th 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=460945]


Visited the Museum November 20th. There are a lot of pictures inthis blog ... see them in extra photos. The museum is dedicated to the peoples that inhabit the Russian Landt. Notes .... as written while walking thru the second floor: - entrance fee 350 rub.; little blue footsie slippers are required over outdoor shoes; people working are not wearing footsies. - finding the stairs to go up ... daunting; found service stairs; official stairway all in marble and slippery with the footsies. - Skylight above and exhibits all around second floor bulastrade - eng [View Full Entry]

smatlanek - Barbara Smatlanek | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 1st 2009 | 69 Views | [diary=457414]

Knitted Socks and Mittens
Patterns to Copy
Socks for a Cold Clime

The Hermitage is why I came to StPB and I will concentrate on just that. Anything else will be gilding the Lily. Have now been to the Hermitage three times and have successfully covered the first floor. The East Asian section was closed on my third visit. It may be that more 'guards' are needed in high traffic areas today. There were hordes of people coming into the place via the front entrance this Saturday . I did not see how many people came into the group entrance but the cloak room for The Friends of the Hermitage was quite full. [View Full Entry]

smatlanek - Barbara Smatlanek | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 16th 2009 | 109 Views | [diary=453590]

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Amazing Physic
Gotta Love the Toes

A six hour train ride to Moscow is what the day had in store for me. The wind in St Petersburg that blew straight through you, threatening to take your umbrella with it, quickly put an end to any ideas we had to spend our last few hours wandering the old streets. Back to the hotel and a long lunch, before jumping in the waiting car to take us to the train station. Thankfully, since traffic was about as awful as the weather, the station was only 20minutes away. Leaving Chris to decipher the information board written in Cyrillic, I found [View Full Entry]

ChellesFootsteps - Michelle Martin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 16th 2009 | 56 Views | [diary=445534]

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Oh no, looks like I have become what annoyed me while reading other peoples' blogs: A rare poster. Truth be told, I write every day but as it turns out I write elsewhere and sent the link to friends and family so they'd know how I am doing(What can I say, I am cheap and don't like to call out with my mobile). I guess I didn't think the decision through when I set up this account and realized that anyone can read(addresses, numbers, peoples full names ect). Someday I will copy/paste/edit entries from my blog here - when I have [View Full Entry]

TheWholeOrchestra - Robin D | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 13th 2009 | 11 Views | [diary=444655]


On 1 May, 1703 (Russian calendar), during the Great Northern War, Peter the Great captured the Swedish fortress of Nyenskans on the Neva river in Ingria. A few weeks later, on 27 May, 1703 (May 16, Old Style), lower on the river, on Zayachy (Hare) Island, three miles (5 km) inland from the gulf, he laid down the Peter and Paul Fortress, which became the first brick and stone building of the new city. He named the city after his patron saint, Saint Peter, the apostle. The original name was meant to sound like Dutch due to Peter's obsession with the [View Full Entry]

saorrento - Chris Rowe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 13th 2009 | 45 Views | [diary=444696]


I arrived in St Petes almost expecting the worse, slow and rude bureaucracy, little English and police officers wanting bribes and pickpockets as far as the eye could see. I must say so far, there has been none of these issues. We were clever enough to secure a private city tour before we left Perth and we woke on our first full day in St Petes, filled with anticipation. St Petersburg as a city is only 300 years old and has gone through several name changes before arriving at the city we know it as today. In 1924 it was renamed [View Full Entry]

ChellesFootsteps - Michelle Martin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 13th 2009 | 81 Views | [diary=444703]

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By saorrento
October 13th 2009
Broken Ring Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg
The capture of Leningrad was one of three strategic goals in Hitlers initial plan, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, for invading and conquering the Soviet Union. Hitlers strategy was motivated by Leningrads political status as the former capital of Russia and the symbolic capital of the Russian Revolution, its military importance as a main base of the Soviet Baltic Fleet and its industrial strength, housing numerous arms factories. The Siege of Leningrad, also known as The Leningrad Blockade was an unsuccessful military operation by the [View Full Entry]

saorrento - Chris Rowe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 18th 2009 | 41 Views | [diary=445524]


By Rich_and_Kel
September 25th 2009
St. Petersburg Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg
After a very late night madly packing up the house and quick run across Heathrow Terminal 5 as they called our names for the last call, we started our Round the World in St. Petersburg. It was a pretty cold start and took us a while to work out what was going on with the language but we managed to survive the 3 days here by finding the two restaurants that had an English menu (that weren't McDonalds). Some very impressive buildings intermingled with some beautiful 60s tower blocks. Beer of the week : Baltika 3 - cheapest beer they had [View Full Entry]

Rich_and_Kel - Rich and Kel | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 9th 2009 | 39 Views | [diary=443487]

Cathedral of Spilt Blood 2
Babooshka Dolls
Us in St Petersburg


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