Nicholas G. Boyce goes all aboard the Trans-Siberian expressÂ…chooo chooooo (re-write)
August 13th 2008 So yes this a re-write as my first seemed a little too disconnected with the source as I wrote it after the happening of the journey - so I will in fact now re-write my journal entries instead to try and give you all the effect, I desire, of this journey on me. Note it is in present because it was written in the present but of course it all happened in the past I think!?!
26/07/08 Saturday
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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 
