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Moscow - Days 1 - 4

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January 4th 2011
Day 1 After a very long day I landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport with the announcement that it was -15 degrees outside -yikes! After catching the Aero train into the centre of Moscow I had my first taste of the complexities of the Russian Metro which would confuse me fr the rest of my stay in Moscow. I foolishly gave up in the end and asked a policeman who promptly sent me in the wrong di ... 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