Russian History Monument

Founded in the 10th century, Novgorod is the oldest city in Russia. I guess it makes sense to have a monument to Russian History here. This is a closer view of the top (Peter the Great in the front) and the figures are a bit bigger than lifesize. Ivan the Terrible is missing from this monument because he completely destroyed Novgorod and killed 60,000 of its residents. It was thought to be poor taste to include him.

My Belated Blog

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

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