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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]
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] Blog: Goodbye Mr Lenin
Date: September 24th 2007
Sept 21 Back on the road towards the Mongolian border. Once we had paid our (dis)respect to the giant Lenin head in the town square, we were off. It was 7 degrees C at 10am in the morning, and there was a bitter wind blowing (fortunately in our favour). We stopped to visit the Ivolgolinsk datsan, built in 1955 as a concession by Stalin to ‘religious tolerance’. For this reason, it had ... read more
Date: September 24th 2007
Sept 21 Back on the road towards the Mongolian border. Once we had paid our (dis)respect to the giant Lenin head in the town square, we were off. It was 7 degrees C at 10am in the morning, and there was a bitter wind blowing (fortunately in our favour). We stopped to visit the Ivolgolinsk datsan, built in 1955 as a concession by Stalin to ‘religious tolerance’. For this reason, it had ... read more
