Novgorod Kremlin

My Belated Blog

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October 25th 2010
Greetings from the Land of the Tsars! When I came up with the title of "Frost and Sun" for my blog it was a beautiful, if cold, day and put me in mind of the Pushkin poem "Мороз и солнце" (moroz e sontse) or "Frost and Sun". Of course since then it has remained cold and just gotten grayer and grayer and now I don't even remember the last day that I actually saw the sun. But I'll keep ... 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