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June 29th 2010
Sveta and I travel to Moscow a lot. Since we arrived in Russia, she’s made six capital trips; I’ve made four. With one exception all of these visits has lasted all of a day. For example, last week Wednesday we boarded the train at 7:30 am and arrived in Moscow Thursday morning at 5 am. Perm lies two time zones ahead of Moscow, so we that means we rode for 24 hours. Our train left Moscow that e ... 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