so many beatiful churches

Moscow or Bust

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May 22nd 2007
After an over night train from Riga to Moscow(17 hours) we found our hostel( we highly recommend the Napolean hostel - cheapish, clean good facilities, you can book it at hotelworld .com) and then rushed to get our tickets from the travel agent( more recommendations here- if you want to be sure that your tickets are booked for you on busy trains then use Svezhy veter- all details on www.seat61.c ... read more

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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 Dynas... ... read more