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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 Dyna... [read more]
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 Dyna... [read more] Blog: St. Petersburg draws to a close
Date: May 20th 2007
I have just completed to very long exhausting days as a tourist once again. This time, my tour guides were Dmitri and Igor, who are a faculty member and student respectively in the Information Technology department (computer science) at Herzen University (as opposed to my earlier trips which were either arranged tours as a group with my colleagues from UNI, or were me off exploring on my own). ... read more
Date: May 20th 2007
I have just completed to very long exhausting days as a tourist once again. This time, my tour guides were Dmitri and Igor, who are a faculty member and student respectively in the Information Technology department (computer science) at Herzen University (as opposed to my earlier trips which were either arranged tours as a group with my colleagues from UNI, or were me off exploring on my own). ... read more
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I grew up the oldest son of two parents who LOVE to travel. My father's job as an expert in world soils gave him opportunities to travel for several weeks at a time nearly every summer that I can remember. His stories (and slides) of numerous trips to China during the re-opening to Western visitors after the communist revolution, to both eastern and western Europe (including Berlin on the day/night that the former East Berlin rejoined the economic system of West Berlin/Germany) and African countries such as Tanzania instilled a wanderlust in me from a young age. While I have not had the opport... full info
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