Tourist at the Winter Palace

St. Petersburg walkabout

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November 19th 2010
A full day of walking around St, Pete's and I'm beat. This sightseeing business is hard work! (yeah I know, very little sympathy from my friends who are really at work...) After a nice breakfast at my hotel, I headed up Nevsky Prospect on foot to check out the heart of this city. Breakfast, by the way, was a nice little buffet with a choice of breads, rolls, cheeses, sausage (both cold, sliced mea ... 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