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On a train, crossing over nations

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May 20th 2007
Ahh, so the beginning of the train journey. We'd all got to know each other over the past few (drunken) days, and so we lumbered into the train station in Moscow burdened with too many bags, not enough sleep and a few sore heads. We were the only westerners there, all the other pass angers comprising of Mongolian traders frantically running goods up and down the platform. Mountains of stuff, I hon ... read more

Europe » Russia

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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