World apart

Kerry standing across the border where Europe and Asia officially meet. One of the old symbols of the Russian empire is a two headed eagle, one head looks to the left, the other to the right. It is symbolically watching over both the Asian and European parts of Russia. Could it also be taken as a symbol of paranoia though?

2008: A Trans-Siberian Odyssey

June 5th 2008
Part 3: Walking in a winter wonderland. Pre-blog: Welcome, dear reader, to another belated installment in our travel blog. In this post we are trialling a slightly different format. We will start with our usual eloquent prose, razor sharp wit and high brow humor, but this time, when we post photographs of events or places we have visited we will only briefly mention those events ... read more

Europe » Russia » Urals » Yekaterinburg

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

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