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After a full day a hot shower was in order... When Lee turned on the shower it ran red! When he called reception they said they would send someone from maintenance to fix it. Seconds later there was a knock on the door and a grumpy little babushka (from housekeeping) says something in Russian, turned all the taps on and runs the water. Then says something in Russian that we guess was along the lines of... "let the water run until it goes clear" and then she left. It took a
full 5 minutes but eventually it cleared. We had a slight pang of deja vu.
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 
