Choir in the spilled blood

Trip to the city

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January 2nd 2010
The start of my first full day in St. Petersburg. After a needed good nights sleep I was greeted by a cooked breakfast of eggs, tamatoes, oninions and basil. Olga took me to the metro to meet Bente, where I had my first taste of the interior of St. Petersburg underground stations. Bente was explaining that the line we were taking (the red line) was the first to be built therefore more elaborate th ... 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