St Petersburgh

Cold

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January 24th 2008
This is my first entry outside the UK, and I have to apologise for it taking so long to make, having left Heathrow on Thursday 17th January. (I got out just before the plane crash) It has been so hard to find an Internet cafe in St Petersburg that I had to wait till Moscow before I could make an entry. I arrived at St Petersburg airport at 4pm Russia time and it was already getting dark. The Russ ... 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