A friendly Russian Grandma selling fresh river fish

Russia after Moscow

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December 9th 2005
The Trans-Siberian...Moscow to Irkutsk Several different trains travel the wide expanses between Moscow and Vladivostock and Beijing. The "Trans-Siberian" train, as such, only travels the region of Siberia in Central Russia. Siberia is not everything East of Moscow, but the region between the Ural and Altai Mountains. Its Winters are so fierce because the region is one large basin. But few ... 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