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Irkutsk stop (Siberia)

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August 22nd 2007
From my journal... After an uneventful and smelly journey on the train I devoured the book "Day of the Jackal" (for lack of any other entertainment than torturing Ross) and made fun of typical Russian style/behavior at train stops. (more on that later) Being the intellectual, college educated individuals we are, Ross and I spent my remaining turgut (Mongolian money) on apples, grapes, tea, bad ... read more

Europe » Russia » Siberia » Lake Baikal

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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