The Basilica

From Russia with Love -- Part 1

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May 26th 2009
Red Square and the St. Basil’s Cathedral - 6 May 2009 We have just returned from Moscow with love brimming up in my heart for this beautiful city. Avi too, underwent a change of heart by the Moscow’s beauty, though 37 years back, he had declared it as the most gloomy, drab city ever. The reason being that this time we visited it in the summer whereas, he had spent a miserable 3 months of blea ... 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