Vast ice fields

Walking on Water

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February 4th 2008
After a very long day in Ekaterinburg waiting patiently for our late night train we were finally off at 2am on what is to be our longest train leg of our journey (50hrs). We were both happy and a little sad to find we had only one travel companion in our berth, who happened to turn out to be the quietest man in Russia (so much for vodka induced wild train trips) , slept most of the way and seemed ... 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