Catherine's Palace

Baltic Sea - St Petersburg Day 1

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August 1st 2010
Hi everyone - here we are again - well the weather so far has been fantastic - so much so that I had to do a bit of retail therapy to stock up on some summer clothes.... how sad hey! We arrived at St Petersburg and boy was it hot - it was the hottest day they had had there for over 300 years!! They only have 35 - 60 sunny days per year - depending on who is telling the story and of course it' ... 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