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The political state of Russia emerged following the expansion of the principality of Muscovy - emerging from Mongol domination to conquer and absorb the surrounding principalities. The Romanov dynasty continued this expansionist policy. Peter I extended Muscovy's rule to the Baltic Sea, and the Russian Empire came into being. The dramatic fall of the Romanov dynasty, the formation of the USSR under Lenin, the brutal dictatorship of Stalin and the Cold War placed the USSR at the forefront of world politics. The USSR dissolved under Gorbachev, and 15 separate republics were formed in 1991. Although vastly reduced territorially, Russia remains a vast and powerful state, retaining political influence in the region and worldwide.To be updated

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By EdwardC
June 29th 2009

Volga Region Europe » Russia » Volga

Moscow - Volgograd 21hours... Train journey seem to be a lot of fun thought the heat at day reaching 36 to 38c can be a little overwhelming. People are friendly and gladly share they portions between one another. Speaking no russian makes it only that much more fun and entertaining... it is really travelling with the odrinary average russian across trully amazing time speared regions. Volgograd (ex-Stalingrad) Imagine a city new of the 60's with virtually nothing old. The Stalinist environment and structure of the town makes it a strange sight. Its is not as ugly as one could imagine as [View Full Entry]

By KerryAndGraham
June 27th 2009

Russia in Retro, by Graham Europe » Russia » Siberia

train view
(no photo-shopping involved)

Ok ok ok, so it's taken me 3.5 weeks to write an entry, but I've been busy - honest! We got into Beijing yesterday afternoon and, being the urbanites that we are, immediately fell in love with the city's vibe. But enough about China, that can wait for another blog. I guess I'd better fill you in on the rest of Russia. Where were we? Ah yes, we'd just left Yekaterinburg in Kerry's last post. There's a lot to cover then, but stream of conciousness writing was good enough for Kerouac so it should be good enough for me. Here we [View Full Entry]

By The Journey
June 25th 2009

Москва, Российская Федерация Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

The Kremlin

Москва - June 21st - 25th, 2009 After sleeping 4 hours in St. Petersburg, we had to pack up and catch the 9am flight to Moscow. We took the metro with all the drunks getting home from the celebration of the night before, and made it to the airport on time. 2 hours later we were in Moscow, and as usual it was pissin' on us again. We wandered around for an hour trying to find our hostel, and eventually stumbled on it after passing right by it twice. We were pretty pooped from the night before, hungry and just feeling [View Full Entry]

By The Journey
June 22nd 2009

Санкт-Петербург, Российская Федерация Europe » Russia

Winter Palace/Hermitage Museum

St. Petersburg, Russia June 17th - 21st, 2009 After heading east for nearly 3 weeks, and a final 2 hour flight from Warsaw, we arrived in our destination of St. Petersburg, Russia. We are glad we decided to fly as we got a great deal on 3 flights, and to take the train would have taken us probably another two weeks to get here. True to form, it pissed on us as soon as we got off the plane. We were thoroughly soaked by the time we reached our hostel in the heart of the city on Nevsky Prospect, a stones [View Full Entry]

By EdwardC
June 22nd 2009

Moskovit experience Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

Hello everyone, Moscow is one amazing place. The people, the culture, sights and life make it a fantastic town with a already very different attidudes in spite of its proximity to Europe. Arriving in Moscow is a bit of a riddle but once on the Metro network the destinations are clear and the stations true masterpieces. It is fast, reliable and comes every few minutes so really enables an easy access all across town. Having been warmly welcomed by my host family the first evening was spent discussing and planning the next few days. In spite of personally not having really [View Full Entry]

By Ania1323
June 16th 2009

White Nights in Russia Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

Peterhof

I have been waiting to visit Russia for a long, long time. My grandmother’s stories of traveling to the Ukraine and Russia during the 60s, 70s and 80s have always fascinated me; she set up a sort of trade route between Poland and those two countries when times were rough and merchandise in Poland was lacking. She even sent my father and his sister to Budapest via train to pick up supplies when he was just thirteen years old. She’s crazy. When I’m in PL, she makes me take a shot of Limoncello for breakfast. The other part of my fascination [View Full Entry]

By KerryAndGraham
June 15th 2009

Trans-siberian stage 2: Vladimir to Yekaterinburg Europe » Russia » Urals » Yekaterinburg

High speed houses

Part 1: The train This was our first taste of overnight Russian train travel. We travelled "Kupe" i.e. 2nd class and again were pleasantly surprised to have services included, despite having a bag full of instant noodles, bread & tea at hand to see us through! This time for "services" we were called into the restaurant car and asked what we'd like to eat. This greatly confused us but the patient lady waitress knew a couple of words of English and so we ordered "pork". It actually turned out to be a 2 course fayre of salad followed by pork stew [View Full Entry]

View from train window (with window included)

Kerry's face (and our 2nd class carriage)

By Carolyn09
June 15th 2009

Moscow - the city that never sleeps Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

So says the blurb anyway. Our train to Moscow was rather plush once we managed to get on it. I had to sign in again with the doctors at the station in Nizhny Novgorod to say that I was OK. They gave us an escort to the train - to make sure they got rid of us perhaps? Anyway, it was a really nice train, air conditioned with comfy seats and we got a lunch box too. Journey was pretty uneventful and in no time we were approaching Moscow. Once out of the train station we had to find out way [View Full Entry]

By chrisandsarah09
June 15th 2009

Train Part II Europe » Russia » Siberia » Lake Baikal

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Unlike the previous mornings, on our new locomotive home, we awoke after a pretty terrible nights sleep. There may have been a number of contributing factors. It was possible that the inevitable train-lag that we had been anticipating was upon us or perhaps it was our serious lack of physical exertion. It also could have been due to the air conditioning, over which we had no control over, pumping out what felt like sub zero temperatures all night. I stepped out of our cabin to check the kilometer sign posts at the other side of the train and bumped into Claus, [View Full Entry]

By charmedgirl
June 13th 2009

Tomsk, Irkutsk and Lake Baikal Europe » Russia » Siberia » Irkutsk

Epiphany Cathedral, Tomsk

Leaving Tobolsk station I managed to give myself my first proper injury of the trip (unless you count bleeding feet from a million blisters). I tripped on some dodgy paving and carrying both bags I couldnt balance properly so ended up falling flat on my face. Giving myself a nice bruised and swollen nose (somehow worse than when I headbutted the steering wheel of the van I crashed!) Very sexy grazed and bruised knees and worst of all a bruised swollen wrist that I thought for some time was broken! For those of you that know me well you would know [View Full Entry]

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