JK entertains the restaurant car

Trans Siberian: Moscow - Irkutsk

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October 14th 2006
Our train left Moscow at 21.36 on Tuesday 10th October. Ours was the last carriage on the train, although we'd walked half the length of it (10 carriages) before figuring this out! Cabins are pretty compact to say the least. A cabin consists of 4 bunks, a tiny table and some storage space bags and not much else. We settled in and tried to make a conversation with our Russian cabin mate, Denis, a R ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

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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