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Trans Manchurian Moscow to Beijing - Part two

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August 16th 2008
09/08/08 7.30am. I wake to see endless rolling silver birch and fir forests again. Grey skies. The lovely sound of the train and the constant gentle rocking movement. I immediately think of the sad woman in Yaroslavsky station last night. Kirov - 12.17pm 957km from Moscow. (Kirov, renamed in 1934 in honour of Communist Leader assassinated earlier in the same year. Sergie Kirov was at on ... read more

Europe » Russia » Siberia

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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