The big guy

More Moscow........

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August 4th 2006
I found my hostel with not much trouble. This was only the second time I had stayed in a hostel on this trip, and the first time in a hostel with other travelers. Youth hostels are a fairly new phenomenon in Moscow, and there are still only a handful of them in this huge city. So finding a hostel with vacancy is difficult. I arrived at this place called Godzillas Hostel, and they were full. B ... 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